The Renaissance

By jennifer.sanchez-gom
  • Birth of Lorenzo de’ Medici
    Jan 1, 1449

    Birth of Lorenzo de’ Medici

    Patron of the arts
  • Gutenberg prints the first Bible
    1455

    Gutenberg prints the first Bible

    Inventor of the movable-type printing press
  • Michelangelo sculpts the David
    1501

    Michelangelo sculpts the David

    Represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence.
  • Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
    1503

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa

    The portrait is painted to a realistic scale in the highly structured space where it has the fullness of volume of a sculpture in the round.
  • Thomas More writes Utopia
    1516

    Thomas More writes Utopia

    Lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist
  • Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
    Oct 31, 1517

    Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church

    Would begin the Protestant Reformation
  • King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church
    1534

    King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church

    Second Tudor monarch
  • Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
    1543

    Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres

    The movement of Mercury and Venus had long perplexed philosophers and astronomers.
  • William Shakespeare is born
    Apr 23, 1564

    William Shakespeare is born

    Poet, playwright, and actor
  • Galileo invents a thermometer

    Galileo invents a thermometer

    Italian polymath