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David by Michelangelo
David, 1504, Marble, height 434 cm
Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence.
In 1501 Michelangelo was commissioned to create the David by the Arte della Lana (Guild of Wool Mer... |
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Andrea Palladio, Architect
The Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio shaped the world that surrounds us today. He remains the most influential architect in the history of architecture. About 450 ye... |
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In Praise of Folly, Erasmus
In Praise of Folly (Encomiun Moriae in Latin) was written in 1509 by the Dutchman Erasmus of Rotterdam when he was guest to his English famous friend Thomas More,or Morus... |
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John Calvin, Theologian
John Calvin was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian the... |
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Diego Ortiz, Spanish Composer
Diego Ortiz is important to history not only as a leading Spanish composer of the Renaissance era, but also as the author of Trattado di glosas, the first printed instruc... |
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Index Librorum Prohibitorum
The principle of a list of forbidden books was adopted at the Fifth Lateran Council in 1515, then confirmed by the Council of Trent in 1546. The first edition of the Inde... |
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Luís de Camões, Portugese Poet
Luís Vaz de Camões, Portugal's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Homer, Virgil, and Dante. Poet and great Epic, he wrote a considerable amo... |
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Pieter Bruegel, the Elder
"The greatest of the Flemish sixteenth-century masters of genre was Pieter Bruegel the Elder. We know little of his life except that he had been to Italy, like so many no... |
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Palestrina, Composer
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian composer of Renaissance music. He was the most famous sixteenth-century representative of the Roman School of musical comp... |
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
French humanist whose motto was "Que sais-je?" ["What do I know?"]. Montaigne's Essais (Essays) (1580, 1588) drew attention to the vain pretensions of human rationality a... |
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William Byrd, English Composer
English composer, organist at Lincoln Cathedral and, jointly with Tallis, at the Chapel Royal. Although Roman Catholic, he composed anthems and services for the English C... |
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El Greco, Painter, Sculptor, Architect
El Greco was a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" (The Greek) was a nickname, a reference to his Greek origin. El Greco was born in C... |
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St. John of the Cross
Saint John of the Cross (San Juan de la Cruz) was a major figure in the Catholic Reformation, a Spanish mystic and Carmelite friar born at Fontiveros, a small village nea... |
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Miguel de Cervantes, Creator Don Quixote
Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet, the creator of Don Quixote, the most famous figure in Spanish literature.
Miguel de Cervantes, born in Alcalá de Henares in 1... |
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Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher of the Renaissance and follower of Nicolas of Cusa. An aposotate Dominican, Bruno tried to incorporate both Copernican astronomy and hermetic mysticis... |
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