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Leonardo da Vinci, the archetype of the Renaissance man. This is a list of notable people associated with the Renaissance. Artists and architects ...
Western historians during the Italian Renaissance or Northern Renaissance; those born post-1600 listed under "early modern" Leonardo Bruni (1370–1444), humanist historian; Flavio Biondo (1392–1463), humanist historian; Philippe de Commines (1447–1511), French historian; Robert Fabyan (died 1513), London alderman and chronicler
The term rinascita ("rebirth") first appeared in Lives of the Artists (c. 1550) by Giorgio Vasari, while the corresponding French word renaissance was adopted into English as the term for this period during the 1830s. [4] [b] The Renaissance's intellectual basis was founded in its version of humanism, derived from the concept of Roman humanitas ...
Leonardo Da Vinci's baptism record. Leonardo da Vinci, properly named Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci [b] ("Leonardo, son of ser Piero from Vinci"), [9] [10] [c] was born on 15 April 1452 in, or close to, the Tuscan hill town of Vinci, 20 miles from Florence.
The term "Renaissance man" was first recorded in written English in the early 20th century. [10] It is used to refer to great thinkers living before, during, or after the Renaissance. Leonardo da Vinci has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination". [11]
Pages in category "Renaissance people" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Ferry Carondelet;
Rembrandt [a] Harmenszoon van Rijn was born on 15 July 1606 in Leiden, [1] in the Dutch Republic, now the Netherlands. He was the ninth child born to Harmen Gerritszoon van Rijn and Neeltgen Willemsdochter van Zuijtbrouck. [8] His family was quite well-to-do; his father was a miller and his mother was a baker's daughter.
Mondino de Liuzzi (c. 1270–1326), physician and anatomist whose Anathomia corporis humani (MS. 1316; first printed in 1478) was the first modern work on anatomy; Guido da Vigevano (c. 1280–c. 1349), physician and inventor who became one of the first writers to include illustrations in a work on anatomy [1]