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Renaissance Figures
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Renaissance Era
The period of “rebirth” and creativity that followed Europe’s Middle Ages.
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Brunelleschi
Italian architect, he used mathematical formulas to design strong buildings like Il Duomo.
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Michelangelo
Painter and sculptor who, for example, painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
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Raphael
An Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings.
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Titian
The leading painter of the 16th-century, Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Inventor and artist who sketched early tanks and cars and painted the Mona Lisa.
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Galileo
Created a powerful telescope and was the first to observe and record sunspots
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Copernicus
Published the theory that the Earth was not the center of the universe. (Heliocentric Theory)
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Kepler
A German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer, and a key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution.
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Johann Gutenberg
Invented moveable type printing press
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Vesalius
Published detailed descriptions of the human anatomy.
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Erasmus
A Dutch priest and author who criticized corrupt clergy, which helped inspire the Protestant Reformation.
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Cervantes
Wrote Don Quixote.
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Petrarch
Early Italian Renaissance scholar, he wrote about the importance of knowing history.
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Sir Thomas More
An English lawyer, author, and statesman who in his lifetime gained a reputation as a leading Renaissance humanist scholar.
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Dante
Italian Renaissance poet, he wrote The Divine Comedy in the Italian language.
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Shakespeare
Playwright and author who wrote the play Romeo and Juliet, among others