Notes

Aretmisia Gentileschi

• Italian painter
• born July 8th 1593
• one of the most accomplished painter
• raped, which influenced her work
• painted pictures of strong and women, including a self portrait

Sir Thomas More

• born Febuary the 7th 1478
• died july 6th 1535
• wrote a book titled Utopia in which he shared a vision of society of equals

Martin Luther

• lived fro m1483 to 1684
• born into a german catholic family
• w2rote 95 theses challenging th e cahtlolic church
• became a monkm and theoligist

Prine Henry of Portugel

• nicknamed henry the navigator
• third child of king john the 4th
  responsible for the early time
• estalished a center of navigation and exploration

Louis Labe

• born in early 15 hundred
• born to a rope maker
• her mother died when she was a child
• father got her educated in language and music
• married in her early twenties
• in1555 her name was published with a pros and cons list
• she wrote 24 sonnetsand three alligies
• book was published three diffrent times within a year
• her husband died in the 1560s
• died of plague in1566

Ambrose Pare

• born in 1520
• during war he served for his counrtry
• wrote book death mostrais
• published in 1573
• faith was unknown
• first people to learn how to tie an arterie
• invented the use of bandages

Peter Brueghul

• flemish renisaissance fan\
• known for landscapes pleasanties
• painted the peasant dancerelied on detail and realisum
• painted the peasant dance, a painting that relys on detail and realizium

John Calvin

• Born July 10, 1509 in France. He died in 1564
• was a french reformer & theologian
• wrote the Institutes of the Christian Religion
• When Calvin was 28, he moved to Geneva, Switzerland
• he created Calvinism
• Calvinism was based around the absolute power and supremacy of God.

Robert Hooke

• an English philosopher & architect
• born in July of 1635.
• Helped rebuild London after the great fire
• Last of 4 children

Niccolo Machiavelli

• father of modern political theory
• Wrote "The Prince"
• was unfairly attacked his whole life

Chistopher Columbus

• an italian spanish navigator. sailed west across atlantic ocean
• didn't mean to discover the americas
• travelled to Carribean Sea and claimed land for Spain

Galiliei

• well known musician
• made a telescope
• found jupiter's 4 moons
• observed Venus for a while
• became blind
• born in 1464
• first to record sun spots

Johannes Gutenburg

• german blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher.
• introduced printing to Europe
• invented the moveable printing press, known as a very important event
• major work - Gutenburg bible
• born in 1398

Leonardo Da Vinci

• Painted the Last Supper
• created designs for airplanes
• invented and sketched tanks and cars

Michelangelo

• was an italian painter and sculptor
• painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
• was very well known

Miguel de Cervantes

• born in 1547, the son of a surgeon
• died in 1616
• studied literature and philosophy in Italy
• enlisted as a soldier in Naples in 1570
• spanish novelist, poet, and playwrighter.
• wrote the "Don Quixode"
• Named the "The Prince of Wits"

William Shakespeare

• wrote the play Romeo and Juliet among others

Nicolaus Copernicus

• published the theory that the Earth was not the center of the Universe

Robert Hooke

•  developed the compound microscope

Andreas Vesalius

• published details descriptions of the human anatomy

Ambros

• surgeon who developed the use of bandages