People - Renaissance and Reformation

Painting: Birth of Venus

Artist: Italian known for his mythology-based paintings (also religious ones)

• Sandro Botticelli

• Michelangelo

• Raphael

• Donatello

Painting: The Peasant Wedding.

Artist: Northern Renaissance painter who, in addition to religion and mythology, painted common people.

• Raphael

• Jan van Ecyk

• Filippo Brunelleschi

• Pieter Bruegel

Painting: The Mona Lisa

Artist: Italian known as a great example of a Renaissance Man (painted, wrote, designed inventions, etc)

• Giovanni Bellini

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Sandro Botticelli

• Leonardo di Caprio

Sculpture: The David.

Artist: Italian artist (painter, sculptor, and poet) also known for painting the roof of the Sistine Chapel

• Petrarch
• Machiavelli
• Da Vinci
• Michelangelo

Writer and thinker.

Best-known for his book The Prince giving advice to rulers; this is sometimes considered the beginnings of political science.

• Chaucer

• Machiavelli
• Canterbury

• Michelangelo

Writer and playwright.

Most important English playwright whose plays touched on Renaissance themes like human nature and classical topics.

• Edmund Spencer

• Elizabeth I

• William Shakespeare

• Christopher Marlowe

Writer and thinker.

Christian humanist and woman. Criticized the lack of education for girls in her most known book, The Book of the City of Ladies

• Catherine de Medici

• Christine de Pisan

• Elizabeth I

• Artemisia Gentileschi

Reformation.

Catholic priest was an early reformer (before Reformation) who criticized the Church (especially indulgences) and was later burned at the stake.

• William Tyndale

• Jan Hus

• Ignatius de Loyola

• Martin Luther

Writer and thinker.

Christian humanist who wrote the book Utopia about an imaginary perfect society. He remained Catholic, angering King Henry VIII by refusing to acknowledge him as the head of a church instead of the pope, and was executed.

• William Shakespeare

• Erasmus

• Thomas More

• William Tyndale

Reformation

Once a priest, he began the Reformation when he nailed the 95 Theses to the Wittenberg church door and then started a new denomination.

• Martin Luther

• John Calvin

• Thomas More

• Jan Hus