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Jan Van Eyek
- - (1380-1441)
- - Famous artist- leading painter of his day
- - brought unprecedented realism to medieval art
- - pictoral illusionism - mimicked reality even though he was northern European
- - rivaled great Italian masters even though he was northern European
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Nicolas Copernicus
- - (1473-1543)
- - mathematician and astronomer
- - made the heliocentric model mainstream
- - Quantity theory of money
- - "Renaissance man" - studied law, math, astrology
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Leonardo Da Vinci
- (1452-1519)
- - Leonardo was an illegitimate child and did not come from nobility
- - "Renaissance man" gifted in many areas
- - Combines art and science/mathematics
- - Embodies all aspects of the renaissance: The search for perfection, studied many areas, wanted to know why things happened
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Raphael Sanzio
- (1483-1520)
- - Painted school of Athens
- - Used Paegan Imagery
- - Architech of St. Peter's Bascillica
- - Realistic depiction of emotion
- - Mathmatically/Artistically perfect and balanced
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Sandro Botticelli
- (1445-1510)
- - Became an apprentice at 14 years old
- - Got to know the Medicci family
- - Made a fresco in the Sistine Chapel
- - Greek myths "The Allegory of Spring," "The Birth of Venus"
- - Illustrated "Dante's Inferno"
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Andrea Mategna
- - 1431-1506
- - Painter, master of force perspective
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Andreas Vesalius
- - 1514-1564
- - An esteemed anatomist
- - Wrote famous book "On the Fabric of the Human Body"
- - Performed autopsies
- - He challenged Gaelan, the supreme physician a the time
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Michelangelo
- - 1475-1564
- - Came from modest beginnings, his father was often employed and his family did not have a great fortune
- - The greatest artist of his lifetime
- - Sistine Chapel (1507-1512)
- - Most of his projects were for the church
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Niccolo Machiavelli
- - 1469-1527
- - Wrote "The Prince" a book on how to gain and keep power
- - One of the first writings of modern philosophy
- - "The ends justify the means"
- - Influenced Thomas Chromwell, cheif minister for Henry VIII
- - King Henry used Machiavellie's philosophy to deal with the Grace
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Thomas More
- - 1478-1535
- - Lawyer, philosopher
- - Highly educated, religous
- - Wrote "Utopia" - Invented utopian and dystopian literature
- - Progressive, wanted all his children to be educated, even the girls
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Francais Drake (1540-1596)
- - English pirate
- - Sent to reek havok on other colonies
- - Destroyed Spanish colonies
- - Golden Hind, only ship to make it to the Pacific Ocean
- - 1rst to navigate the globe
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Francois D'Aguilon (1567-1617)
- - Jesuit
- - Taught geometry
- - Sterographic technique for creating the illusion of depth in any image by stereopsis for binocular vision
- - Used to create architechture
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Luca Pacioli
- - Esteemed teacher/university professor
- - "The Father of Accounting"
- - Major contribution - Summa de Arithmetia Geo
- - Double entry accounting system for traders
- - Rule 72- Basis of Logarithms
- - Compount interest
- - Publicized latin mathmatics into the common Italian language
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Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
- - Born in Ireland
- - "Father of Chemistry"
- - Natural Philosopher, Chemist
- - With Hook studies air and transmission of sound
- - "Boyle's Law" - Pressure of heat and air
- - Helped found "The Royal Society of London"
- - Embodies the pursuit of knowledge and universalness
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Gallileo Galilei (1564-1642)
- - Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher born in Florence
- - Improved the Dutch telescope (1609)
- - Contributed to the development to heliocentrism
- - Observed and recorded other celestial bodies
- - "Father of Modern Science"
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Ben Jonson
- - Came from humble beginnings
- - Famous playwrite
- - Wrote "Every man in his Humour
- - Contreversial subjects, artistic personality
- - Got in trouble from the church, government
- - Used play and poetry to make social commentaries on their society
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Antonio De Cabezon
- - One of the most important Spanish composers of his time
- - Employed by Queen Isabella
- - One of the first to use theme and variation
- - Embodies innovation and furthering the advancement in music
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