The Minds Of: The Renaissance (1450-1550)
Southern(Italy and Whatnot) Renaissance:
Giovanni de' Medici: (d. 1429) Merchant and banker of Florence, foundee of the Medici dynasty. He could be considered one of the world's first modern people.
Cosimo de' Medici:(1389-1464) Unofficial ruler of Florence Republic for awhile
Lorenzo The Magnificent: (1449-1492) Ruler of the Republic, official patron of the arts, he wanted to live life rather than wait for its fulfillment after death
Filippo Brunelleschi: (1377-1446) studied Roman buildings and built cathedrals
Leon Battista Alberti: (1404-1472) Filippo Brunelleschi's buddy kinda thing cause they did the same shit
Lorenzo Ghiberti: (1378-1455) sculpted a set of bronze doors for the Florentine baptistery with not only crowds of human figures but the illusion of depth
Giotto: (1267-1337) painted walls on florentine buildings and created the illusion of depth and movement
Masaccio: (1401-1428) used light and shadow, nude figures, and the illusion of perspective.
Sandro Botticelli: (1444-1510)n painted themes from classical mythology such as his Birth of Venus
Raphael: (1483-1520) is considered one of the greatest painters of his era; he epitomizes the Renaissance style
Leonardo da Vinci: (1452-1519): "The Renaissance Man"; painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, writer, scientist
Michelangelo Buonarroti: (1475-1564) sculptor whose sculptures are often credited with the most perfect marble statues. He also did paintings in the Sistine Chapel
Dante: (1265-1321) standardized Italian speech and language which also helped create "modern" writing because it was finally out of Latin! That dick
Petrarch: (1304-1374) considered first "modern" writer
Boccaccio: (1313-1375) THIS BITCH WROTE THE DECAMERON, entertaining that reflect upon the human condition
Leonardo Bruni: (1370-1444) chancellor of the Republic of Florence, he wrote the first modern history, an account of the development of Florence
Baldassare Castiglione: (1478-1529) The Book of The Courtier, a manual for the manners of the modern gentleman
Niccoló Machiavelli: (1469-1499) he wrote The Prince as the first meaningful treatise on political science; how governments rule without moral judgement or exhortation.
Laura Cereta(1469-1499) humanist and early feminist; she (might) have taught at the University of Padua, she is often criticized for her Epistolae familiares cause people got upset about the "gender bias" she had.
Northern Renaissance:
GERMANY AND ENGLAND
Johann Gutenberg: (1400-1468) invented changeable, movable type for the printing press
Regiomontanus(Johann Muller 1436-1476) ALONG WITH Nicolas of Cusa(1401-1464): laid foundation for science and mathematics {fuck them right?}
Copernicus: (1473-1543) kinda like proved heliocentric system
Martin Behaim(1459-1507) and Thomas á Kempis(1380-1471) mysticism {a person alone could talk to God}
Gerard Groote: (1340-1384) Dutch preacher created "Bro's of Common Life" a modern devotion
Erasmus(1456-1536): Gradual Reform of the church, nut still be loyal to it
Albrecht Dürer(1471-1528) artist(portraits and woodblock prints) also a fucking mathematician
Pieter Brueghel the Elder: (1520-1569): focused his painting and prints on ordinary people. Which challenged the whole Renaissance
Christopher Marlowe: (1564-1593) dramatist who helped form modern English
Edmund Spenser: (1552-1599) poet who helped form modern English
Francis Bacon (1564-1616) scientist who also helped form modern English
William Shakes-a lot-spear (1564-1616) yall know this dick right? if not, he is a writer
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535): helped with contemporary English(also wrote blueprint for perfect society)
FRANCO
Rabelais (1494-1553): attacked French society and church while advocating reform
Montaigne (1533-1592) fucking formated the essay, you dick
SPAINO
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) sarersed societys anachronistic glorification of chivalry and medieval institutions in Don Quixote
Lope de Vega: wrote hella dramas
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (idk) painted magnificent religious pictures
Doménikos El Greco(1541-1614) painted magnificent religious pictures
Diego Valázquez(1599-1660): painted magnificent religious pictures
Francisco Suárez (idk): wrote hella admired works on philosophy and law
LOW COUNTRIES
Jan Van Eyck(1385--1441) Dutch painter
Rembrandt van Rijn(1606-1669) Dutch master (chiaroscuro)
Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450-1516) dutch painter symbolism, sin, moral failing
