Historical Significance of the Early Renaissance

(Above) da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, and mathematician.

 

Medici is a wealthy family that took control of the Florentine Government.

Gutenberg was a german goldsmith that invented the Gutenberg press, along with the Gutenberg bible. 

Brunelleschi: An architect inspired by Rome buildings; designed the church of San Lorenzo.

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. 

Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer. 

(The symbol of Lutheranism shown above) Lutheranism is a religious belief founded by Martin Luther in Europe.

Martin Luther was a German Monk, Catholic priest, professor of theology and a seminal figure of a Christianity movement.

Desiderius Erasmus was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher and theologian. He was also a classical scholar who wrote in a style of pure Latin.

The society of Jesus was a Congregation of the Catholic Church for male Christians. The members themselves were known as Jesuits.

 

Huldrych Zwingli was a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland.

(Above shows Anabaptism) Anabaptism is a Christian Theological tradition developed during the reformation in the sixteenth century.

  

Jan Hus (AKA John Hus) was a Czech priest, philosopher, reformer, and master at Charles University in Prague.

William Tyndale was an English scholar who is well known for translating the New Testament in the Bible into English language.

The Münster Rebellion was an attempt by radical Anabaptists to establish a communal sectarian government in the German city of Münster.