Renaissance People

By AgneseBelcari
  • Period: 1267 to 1337

    Giotto

    Giotto is the first Renaissance painter. Giotto uses for the first time an intuitive perspective in his paintings.
  • Period: 1377 to 1446

    Filippo Brunelleschi

    Filippo Brunelleschi was an Italian Renaissance artist, architect, and engineer. He is known for his ability to solve complex problems, as demonstrated in his design for the dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore (1420–36; the Duomo) in Florence, which was constructed with machines that Brunelleschi invented expressly for the project.
    He is the first modern engineer, planner, and sole construction supervisor; he developed the mathematical technique of linear perspective in art.
  • Period: 1386 to 1466

    Donatello

    Donatello was one of greatest Italian Renaissance artists, noted especially for his sculptures in marble, bronze, and wood. His sculpted figures were some of the first since antiquity to represent anatomy correctly—though some late works were slightly exaggerated—and to suggest a sense of individuality.
  • Period: 1445 to 1510

    Sandro Botticelli

    Sandro Botticelli was one of the greatest painters of the Florentine Renaissance. His Birth of Venus and Primavera are often said to represent for modern viewers the spirit of the Renaissance and the lienar grace of Early Renaissance.
  • Period: 1449 to 1492

    Lorenzo The Magnificent

    Lorenzo The Magnificent was a magnate, diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists, and poets. As a patron, he is best known for his sponsorship of artists such as Botticelli and Michelangelo. A man coming from a family of bankers, who was much better in spending money than in make it! ;)
  • Period: 1451 to 1506

    Christopher Columbus

    Christpher Columbus was bor in Genoa. He went to sea at youg age and travelled widely.
    He completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for European exploration and colonization of the Americas. His expeditions, sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, were the first European contact with the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.
  • Period: 1452 to 1519

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo is an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance and he is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. He is also known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on science and invention; these involve a variety of subjects including engineering, anatomy, cartography, painting, and palaeontology.
    He had no formal academic trainig, he was an individual of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination."
  • Period: 1454 to 1512

    Amerigo Vespucci

    Vespucci claimed to have understood, back in 1501 during his Portuguese expedition, that Brazil was part of a different continent, which he called the New World. The claim inspired cartographer Martin Waldseemüller to recognize Vespucci's accomplishments in 1507 by applying the Latinized form America for the first time to a map showing the New World. Other cartographers followed suit, and by 1532 the name America was permanently affixed to the newly discovered continents.
  • Period: 1469 to 1527

    Niccolò Machiavelli

    Niccolò Machiavelli was an Italian Renaissance political philosopher and statesman and secretary of the Florentine republic. His most famous work, The Prince (1532), brought him a reputation as an atheist and an immoral cynic.
    He has often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science.
  • Period: 1475 to 1564

    Michelangelo Buonarroti

    Michelangelo was a sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance. He exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. His artistic versatility was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival, the fellow Florentine, Leonardo da Vinci.
    He had the ability to turn stone into flesh and to imbue his painted figures with energy.
  • Period: 1483 to 1520

    Raphael

    Raphael was one of the most talented painters of the Italian Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. He was also a popular architect during his lifetime.
  • Period: 1485 to 1528

    Giovanni da Verrazzano

    Giovanni da Verrazzano, born in Val di Greve, is renowned as the first European to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between Florida and New Brunswick in 1524, including New York Bay and Narragansett Bay.
  • Period: 1564 to

    Galileo Galilei

    Galileo was a natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the scientific method. He supported the heliocentric theory of Copernicus.