Person1452 – 1519

Leonardo da Vinci

Also called: Leonardo

Renaissance painter and scientist who painted The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa and filled notebooks on anatomy, machines and flight — the “universal man”

Born at Vinci near Florence, the illegitimate son of a notary, he trained in Verrocchio’s workshop. In the service of Duke Sforza of Milan he painted The Last Supper, and later, at the invitation of King Francis I, he moved to France and died at Amboise. He dissected corpses to draw the human body and left thousands of notebook pages in mirror writing, with designs for flying machines, armoured vehicles and canals.

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1350 – 1527Italian Renaissanceparticipant
From the late 14th to the early 16th century, a humanist culture that revived the culture of ancient Greece and Rome and put humanity at the centre flourished in the cities of Italy, under the patronage of the Medici of Florence.

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Italian poet and scholar who sought to revive the classics of Greece and Rome — called the “father of humanism”
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Head of the Medici family who ruled Florence (“the Magnificent”), patron of artists and scholars such as Botticelli and Michelangelo
Michelangelo1475 – 1564
Renaissance sculptor, painter and architect who carved the David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

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Late Medieval Europe and the Renaissance1077 – 1517
From Canossa to the eve of the Reformation — papal power at its height and in decline, towns and parliaments, royal power growing through the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, and the Renaissance and printing