Renaissance revolution

Perspective

1415

The art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point.

Printing Revolution

1440

A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium, thereby transferring the ink. Gutenberg's printing press spread literature to the masses for the first time in an efficient, durable way, shoving Europe headlong into the original information age. Gutenberg often gets credit as the father of printing, but the Chinese had him beat, in fact, by a full thousand years.

Lorenzo de Medici

Jan 1, 1449

Lorenzo de' Medici was an Italian statesman he was the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. He was a magnate, diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists and poets.

Leonardo da Vinci

May 15, 1452

Leonardo was many things in during the renaissance and he was most definitely a renaissance man. Leonardo was a painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer. Some of his famous works are the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, anatomical studies, vitruvian man, and many more.

Johan Gutenberg

Feb 3, 1468

Johan Gutenberg was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, inventor, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe with the printing press.

Machiavelli

May 3, 1469

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was not only a renaissance man but an Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, writer, playwright and poet of the Renaissance period. He has often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science.

Copernicus

Feb 19, 1473

Copernicus was a Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at the center of the universe.

Michelangelo

Mar 6, 1475

Michelangelo was best known for his sculptor, painter, architect, and poet. Some of his famous works of art are David, Pieta, The Creation of Adam, and many more.

Raphael

1483

Raphael was well known not only in during Renaissance but today as well. Raphael is known for his paintings, and being an architect. Some of his famous works are School of Athens, The Marriage of the Virgin, and many more.

Martin Luther

Nov 10, 1483

Martin Luther was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. Luther was ordained to the priesthood in 1507. He came to reject several teachings and practices of the Roman Catholic Church.

Henry VIII

Jun 28, 1491

Henry VIII was King of England from 1509 until his death in 1547. He was the second Tudor monarch. Henry is best known for his six marriages, in particular his efforts to have his first marriage killed.

Humanism

1500

Humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers critical thinking and evidence over acceptance superstition.

John Calvin

Jul 10, 1509

John Calvin was a French theologian, pastor, and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation.

Sale of Indulgences

1517

Although reformers had many complaints about the Catholic Church of the 16th century, the practice of selling "indulgences" raised the most opposition. An indulgence was a payment to the Catholic Church that purchased an exemption from punishment for some types of sins

Elizabeth I

Sep 7, 1533

Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603. Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor.

William Shakespeare

1564

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. Some famous poems are Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth.

Scientific Method

1564

The scientific method is an empirical method of acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century. It involves careful observation, applying rigorous skepticism about what is observed, given that cognitive assumptions can distort how someone interprets the observation.

Galileo

Feb 15, 1564

Galileo was an astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath from Pisa.

Heliocentric Theory

1610

Copernicus was a Polish astronomer who put forth the theory that the Sun is at rest near the center of the Universe, and that the Earth, spinning on its axis once daily, revolves annually around the Sun. This is called the heliocentric, or Sun-centered, system.

Isaac Newton

Jan 4, 1643

Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time, and a key figure in the scientific revolution.