Download Artists of the Renaissance

Artists, Writers and Scientists of
the Renaissance
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
• Italian painter,
sculptor, inventor,
engineer, scientist and
mathematician.
• The classic
“Renaissance Man”.
• Best known works
include “Mona Lisa”
and “Vitruvian Man”.
Leonardo’s works
Michelangelo Buonarroti
(1475-1564)
• Italian painter,
sculptor, architect,
poet and engineer.
• Most famous works
include “David” and
the ceiling of the
Sistine Chapel.
Michelangelo’s “David”
Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510)
• Italian painter who
lived in Florence.
• His best known works
include “The Birth of
Venus” and
“Primavera”.
“The Birth of Venus”, 1486
Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446)
• Italian architect and
engineer.
• Best known for
designing the dome of
the Florence cathedral.
The Florence Cathedral
Artemisia Gentileschi
(1593-1652)
• Italian painter born in
Rome.
• She was the first female
painter to become a
member of the
Accademia di Arte del
Disegno in Florence.
• Famous works include
“Judith Beheading
Holofernes”.
Some of her works
Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374)
• Italian scholar, poet,
and early Renaissance
humanist.
• Modelled his work
after Latin poets like
Cicero, Virgil and
Seneca.
• His sonnets were
admired throughout
Europe.
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
• Italian poet, author,
and Renaissance
humanist.
• He was a friend and
student of Petrarch.
• His best known works
include the
“Decameron” and “On
Famous Women”.
Niccolo Machiavelli
(1469-1527)
• Italian political
philosopher, humanist
diplomat and writer
who lived in Florence.
• Wrote “The Prince”, a
guide to rulers on how
to maintain their
power.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
• Spanish novelist, poet
and playwright.
• His masterpiece, Don
Quixote, is considered
to be the first modern
novel, and a classic of
Western literature.
Jan van Eyck (1395-1441)
• Flemish painter,
considered one of the
best Northern
European painters of
the 15th Century.
• Best known for
portraits and religious
scenes.
Some of his works
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516)
• Early Dutch
Renaissance painter.
• Used fantastic imagery
to illustrate moral and
religious concepts.
• Best known work is
“The Garden of
Earthly Delights”.
“The Garden of Earthly Delights”
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
• German painter,
printmaker and
mathematician.
• Known for his religious
works, portraits and
landscapes.
• Used mathematical
principles such as
proportion and
perspective.
Dürer’s “Rhinoceros”
Pieter Bruegel (1525-1569)
• Flemish Renaissance
painter and
printmaker.
• His work was
influenced by Bosch.
• Best known for his
landscapes and
peasant scenes.
The Tower of Babel (1563)
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)
• Dutch painter,
printmaker and etcher.
• Considered one of the
greatest European
artists of all time.
• Best known for his
portraits and biblical
scenes.
“Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp”
Johannes Gutenberg (1398-1468)
• German goldsmith,
printer and publisher
who invented modern
book printing
• His invention of
mechanical movable
type printing started
the Printing
Revolution, one of the
most important events
in the modern world.
Nicolaus Copernicus
(1473-1543)
• Polish astronomer,
mathematician and
physician.
• The first person to come
up with the theory that the
earth was not the centre of
the universe.
• Believed that the sun was
the centre of the universe.
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
• German mathematician,
astronomer and scientist.
• Best known for Kepler’s
laws of planetary
motion, which laid the
foundation for Isaac
Newton’s theory of
universal gravitation.
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
• Italian physicist,
mathematician, physician
and astronomer.
• His invention of the
telescope has led to him
being called the “father of
modern astronomy”.
• Also discovered that
falling objects accelerate
at a uniform rate.Used his
study of tides to prove that
the earth moved.
Galileo and the Inquisition
• Galileo supported Copernicus’ ideas that the earth was
not the centre of the universe.
• He believed that the earth moved, which he tried to prove
using his study of tides.
• He published his “Dialogue Concerning Two World
Systems” in 1632, defending Copernicus’ ideas against
the idea that the earth was the centre of the universe.
• After it was published, he was tried by the Roman
inquisition, which found him guilty of heresy.
• He was forced to deny his beliefs and spent the rest of
his life under house arrest.
Galileo Facing the Roman Inquisition