Ren Pt.1 People Flashcards
Dante Alighieri
Best known for writing the Devine comedy.
Donatello
A sculptor
Sculpted the statue of David out of bronze.
Lorenzo de’ Medici
Italian banker and politician
Financially supported new artists
One of the wealthiest people of his time.
Sandro Botticelli
Italian painter
Painted the Sistine Chapel
Painted the birth of Venus
Leonardo da Vinci
Painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, and military engineer
Painted the last supper and the Mona Lisa
Studied the human body.
Sketched human organs.
Michelangelo
Regarded as the most famous artist in the Italian renaissance.
Painted the Sistine chapel
Second David Sculptor
Raphael
Known for his madonas
Painted in the Sistine Chapel
Painted the School of Athens
Niccolo Machiavelli
Wrote “The Prince”
The father of modern political theory.
Caravaggio
Painter
Used Dramatic Light and Dark.
Johannes Gutenberg
German inventor known for creating the printing press
Albrecht Dürer
Regarded as the greatest german artist of his time.
Desiderius Erasmus
Christian humanist & philosopher
Wrote about humanism
Jan van Eyck
famous oil painter, artist, and portraitist from the Netherlands
Geoffrey Chaucer
Wrote the unfinished work, The Canterbury Tales
William Tyndale
One of the leading reformers
translated the Bible into English!
William Shakespeare
famous Renaissance writer in England
one of the greatest writers of all time
Personal life was a secret
John Milton
English poet & historian
Wrote the epic poem “paradise lost”
Marco Polo
Traveled to China and discovered Chinese silk & spices
Wrote “Wonders of the world”
Bartolomeu Dias
Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488
Christopher Columbus
Sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492
John Cabot
Landed in Canada in 1497, mistaking it for Asia, & claimed it as British land
John Cabot
Portuguese explorer who was the first European to reach India by sea in 1499
Vasco de Gama
Portuguese explorer who was the first European to reach India by sea in 1499
Amerigo Vespucci
Discovered America
Juan Ponce de León
Led the first official European expedition to Florida in 1513
First governer of Puerto Rico
Ferdinand Magellan
Led the first European voyage of discovery to circumnavigate the globe from 1519-1522
Hernán Cortés
Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztec empire in 1519 & claimed Mexico for Spain
Jacques Cartier
He is known for giving Canada its name & claiming it as French land
Hernando De Soto
The first European to lead an extensive journey through the modern-day United States from 1539-1541
Sir Francis Drake
Circumnavigated the globe, helped defeat the Spanish Armada of 1588
