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Jul 20, 1304
Petrarch
Petrarch was a Italian scolar, poet and humanist. His love for classical authors led him to travel, and visit men searching to learn monastic libraries for Classical manuscripts. Turning him out to be the greatest scholar of his age. -
1400
Humanism
The title “Renaissance Humanism” is applied to the philosophical and cultural movement that swept across Europe from the 14th through 16th centuries, effectively ending the Middle Ages and leading into the modern era. -
1400
Perspective
Renaissance artists were concerned with making their art look realistic, and one of the ways they achieved this realism was through the use of linear perspective. This lesson discusses the rediscovery of linear perspective during the Renaissance -
1440
Printing Revolution
The Print Revolution and its Impact. The shift from hand printing to mechanical printing led to the print revolution. This revolution transformed the lives of people, changing their relationship to information and knowledge, and with institutions and authorities -
Jan 1, 1449
Lorenzo de' Medici
Lorenzo de' Medici was an Italian statesman, de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic and the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. Also known as Lorenzo the Magnificent by contemporary Florentines, he was a magnate, diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists and poets. -
Apr 15, 1452
Leonardo da Vinci
Known for his creative mind during the Italian Renaissance. Infulenced as an artist and sculptor, but also is work with engineering. Da Vinci also studied scince and created his own inventions for the world to use. -
Feb 3, 1468
Johan Gutenburg
Johan Gutenburg was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, inventor, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe with the printing press. His introduction of mechanical moveable type printing to Europe that started the Printing Revolution. -
May 3, 1469
Machiavelli
Machiavelli was known for a short political treatise. The Prince, written in 1513, but not published till 1532, which was 5 years after his death. The only theoretical work to be published in his lifetime was The Art of War, which was on military science. -
1473
Scientific Method
During the era of the Scientific Revolution, people began using experiments and mathematics to understand mysteries. Effects: New discoveries were made, old beliefs began to be proven wrong -
Mar 6, 1475
Michelangelo
Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western Art. One of his best pieces is found on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the statue of David found in Accademia, Florence. -
1478
Inquistion
The Inquisition was a powerful office set up within the Catholic Church to root out and punish heresy throughout Europe and the Americas. -
Apr 6, 1483
Raphael
Raphael was a master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance. He's best known for his works of the Madonna's and his large figure of composition in the Vatican. His work was admired for its clarity of form and it's visual of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. -
Nov 10, 1483
Martin Luther
Luther was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation -
Jul 2, 1489
Thomas Cranmer
Thomas was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I. He helped build the case for the annulment of Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, which was one of the causes of the separation of the English Church from union with the Holy See -
Jul 10, 1509
John Calvin
John Calvin was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. -
1517
Sale of Indulgences
An 'indulgence' was part of medieval Catholicism and a major trigger to the Protestant Reformation. Basically, indulgences could be purchased in order to reduce the punishment you were owed for your sins. Buy an indulgence for a loved one, and they would go to heaven and not burn in hell -
Sep 7, 1533
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603. Sometimes called the Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor. -
Jan 22, 1561
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. His works are credited with developing the scientific method and remained influential through the scientific revolution -
Rene Descartes
Rene was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. A native of the Kingdom of France, he spent about 20 years of his life in the Dutch Republic after serving for a while in the Dutch States Army of Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange and the Stadtholder of the United Provinces -
Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time, and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
