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  More info about: Sandro Botticelli
  Sandro Botticelli
Sandro Botticelli probably was the most important Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. His most notable work is without a doubt "The Birth of Venus", a huge painting...
         
  More info about: Lorenzo de' Medici
  Lorenzo de' Medici
Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici was an Italian statesman and ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance. Known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (Lorenzo il Mag...
         
  More info about: Ghirlandaio, Florentine Painter
  Ghirlandaio, Florentine Painter
Ghirlandaio (original name Domenico di Tommaso Bigordi) was an early Renaissance painter of the Florentine school noted for his detailed narrative frescoes, which include...
         
  More info about: Dias, 1st to round the Cape - 1488
  Dias, 1st to round the Cape - 1488
Bartolomeu Dias was a Portuguese navigator. He was the first European to round (1488) the Cape of Good Hope, which he called Cabo Tormentoso [cape of storms]. That voyage...
         
  More info about: Josquin des Prez, Composer
  Josquin des Prez, Composer
Josquin des Prez was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He is also known as Josquin Desprez, a French rendering of Dutch "Josken Van De Velde", diminutive of "...
         
  More info about: Isabella, Queen of Spain
  Isabella, Queen of Spain
Isabella of Castile, who helped unify Spain via a dynastic marriage with Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469, was a master of propaganda to secure her rule. Although Isabella was...
         
  More info about: Columbus, Discovers America - 1492
  Columbus, Discovers America - 1492
Christopher Columbus departed on his first voyage from the port of Palos (near Huelva) in southern Spain, on August 3, 1492, in command of three ships: the Niña, the Pint...
         
  More info about: Richard III of England
  Richard III of England
Richard III was King of England from 1483 until his death. He was the last king from the House of York, and his defeat at the Battle of Bosworth marked the culmination of...
         
  More info about: Ferdinand II, King of Aragón
  Ferdinand II, King of Aragón
Ferdinand II or Ferdinand the Catholic, 1452–1516, king of Aragón (1479–1516), king of Castile and León (as Ferdinand V, 1474–1504), king of Sicily (1468–1516), and king...
         
  More info about: Leonardo da Vinci
  Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci, Florentine artist, one of the great masters of the High Renaissance, celebrated as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist. His profoun...
         
  More info about: The Fall of Constantinople
  The Fall of Constantinople
When, at the age of twenty-one, Mehmed II (1451-1481) sat on the throne of the Ottoman Sultans his first thoughts turned to Constantinople. The capital was all that was...
         
  More info about: Hieronymus Bosch
  Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch was probably born in 1453 in 's Hertogenbosch, a town in the province of North Brabant in Holland. Few details about his life, and perhaps not the most i...
         
  More info about: Amerigo Vespucci
  Amerigo Vespucci
America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, who was the first European to suggest that the Americas were not the East Indies. Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian merchant and ca...
         
  More info about: Gutenberg Bible, First Real Printed Book
  Gutenberg Bible, First Real Printed Book
In the mid-15th century Johann Gutenberg invented a mechanical way of making books. This was the first example of mass production. He was born about 1400, the son of a ri...
         
  More info about: Johann Reuchlin
  Johann Reuchlin
German humanist and Hebraist, born at Pforzheim in the Black Forest, where his father was an official of the Dominican monastery. In the pedantic taste of his time the na...
         
         
 
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