Saturday, November 15, 2025
Humanism.
Monday, September 1, 2025
Great people: Tycho Brahe.
Tyge Ottesen Brahe was born on December 14, 1546, in Denmark-Norway.
He was an astronomer during Renaissance.
Tycho Brahe did important things for science. There is the Tychonic system.
Also, he wrote books.
Brahe died on October 24, 1601, in Prague, Czech Republic.
Friday, August 1, 2025
Great people: Filippo Brunelleschi.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Great people: Leon Battista Alberti.
Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian scientist, artist, writer, philosopher, and architect.
He was born on February 14, 1404, in Genoa, Italy.
Alberti's movement was in Italian Renaissance.
He had his own notable works.
Leon Battista Alberti died on April 25, 1472, in Rome, Italy.
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Great people: Donatello.
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi was an Italian sculptor. He was born in 1386, in Republic of Florence.
Donatello worked with different materials for his sculptors.
Renaissance was Donatello's movement.
He died on December 13, 1466, in Republic of Florence.
Sunday, July 2, 2023
Great people: Paolo Veronese.
Paolo Veronese, also known as Paolo Caliari was an Italian painter. He was born in 1528, in Verona.
Veronese had his own movement: Renaissance. Leda and the Swan (1585), Perseus and Andromeda (1576-1578), Adoration of the Magi (1573) are his famous works.
Paolo Veronese died in 1588, in Venice.
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Famous people and their quotes. Part eighty three.
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Great people: Titian.
Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio was born in 1488/90, in Italy. He was a painter of Renaissance.
Titian had his own style of art.
His famous works: Perseus and Andromeda (1554-1556), Venus and Adonis, Danaё (1544-1560s), Diana and Acteon (1556-1559), Diana and Callisto (1556-1559), and etc.
Titian died on August 27, 1576, in Venice.
Friday, February 3, 2023
Great people: Jan van Eyck.
Jan van Eyck was a Dutch painter. He was born in 1380, in Holy Roman Empire.
Jan van Eyck was a part of the Renaissance movement.
His famous works: The Arnolfini Portrait (1434) Madonna in the Church (1438-1440) Madonna of Chancellaor (1435) Rolin Gjent Atarpiece (1432), and etc.
Jan van Eyck died on July 9, 1441, in Netherlands.
Sunday, January 1, 2023
Great people: Giorgione.
Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco was born in 1477, in Italy. He was a painter. Giorgione studied with Giovanni Bellini. He painted in High Renaissance style.
His notable works are: The Tempest (1508), Sleeping Venus (1510), Madonna and Child Between St. Francis and St. Nicasius, or Castelfranco Madonna (1503/04), The Three Philosophers (1505-1509).
Giorgione died in 1510, in Italy.
Friday, December 2, 2022
Great people: Caravaggio.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi also known as Caravaggio. He was born on September 29, 1571, in Milan, Italy.
Caravaggio was an Italian painter. Baroque was his style.
Caravaggio visited different places. His famous paintings; include: Young Sick Bacchus (1593), Boy Bitten by a Lizard (1596), Bacchus (1596), Medusa (1597), Basket of Fruit (1599), and etc.
Caravaggio died on July 18, 1610, in Porto Ercole, Italy.
Thursday, December 1, 2022
Famous people and their quotes. Part seventy eight.
Thursday, August 4, 2022
Great people: Giordano Bruno.
Giordano Bruno was an Italian scientist and philosopher. He was born in 1548, in Italy.
Bruno’s era was Renaissance.
He studied space and our Solar System.
Giordano Bruno died on February 17, 1600, in Rome.
Friday, July 1, 2022
Great people: Albrecht Dürer.
Albrecht Dürer was a German painter. He was born on May 21, 1471, in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire. His parents were Albrecht Dürer the elder and Barbara Holper.
Dürer visited Italy, Netherlands, and etc.
He created many famous paintings: Young Hare (1502), Haller Madonna (1505), Dürer's Rhinoceros (1515). Dürer's movement was High Renaissance.
Albrecht Dürer married Agnes Grey in 1494.
He died on April 6, 1528, in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire.
Wednesday, August 4, 2021
Great people: Sandro Batticelli.
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi was an Italian Renaissance painter.
He was born in 1445, in Florence. Batticelli studied painting with Filippo Lippi.
Sandro Batticelli created many famous paintings. The Birth of Venus (1484-1486), Primavera (late 1470s, early 1480s), Adoration of the Magi (1475), Madonna and Child (1465-1470), Madonna and Child with an Angel (1465-1467).
He died on May 17, 1510, in Florence.
Saturday, December 5, 2020
Great people: Erasmus.
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus was known as a Dutch philosopher. He was born on October 28, 1469, in the Netherlands.
He was interested in humanism. Erasmus studied in colleges and universities. His era was Renaissance Philosophy or XVI century philosophy.
Erasmus wrote many books. In Praise of Folly (Stultitiae Laus or Moriae Encomium). This book was written in 1509. On Civility in Children (De civilitate morum puerilium) (1530). Handbook of a Christian Knigh (Enchiridion militis Christiani) (1501). In these books there are satire and philosophy. He wrote his books in Latin.
English philosopher Sir Thomas More shared the same era with Erasmus Roterodamus.
Erasmus died on July 12, 1536, in Basel, Old Swiss Confederacy.
Sunday, November 15, 2020
Byzantine Empire.
Byzantium or Eastern Roman Empire (Imperium Romanum Orientale, Romania) (Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων, Ῥωμανία) was a province in the late antiquity and early Middle Ages. Capital of Byzantium was Constantinople. This city was large.
The Byzantine Empire left after the Roman Empire.
This country had its own culture, laws, civilization, rules, and emperors. Byzantine Empire was powerful for that time.
People in this empire talked in Greek language. But they identified themselves as Romans. Their religion was Christianity.
Byzantine Empire was a wealthy country in the early medieval period. Eastern Roman Empire had its own schools and education.
This country had many wars during its history. Rulers of other counties wanted to conquer Byzantium.
Also, Byzantine Empire had many architectural works. Different churches and other buildings had their own style for Middle Ages.
But later this empire lost some parts. Empire which existed several centuries fell.
Byzantine Empire left legacy. Other countries studied this history. During Renaissance (XIV-XVII centuries) culture of Byzantium helped scientists.
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Source of image:
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Monday, February 3, 2020
Great people: Raphael.
Raphael was known as an Italian artist and architect. He created many famous paintings, such as: Portrait of a Man (1502), Madonna and Child with the Book (1503), Self-Portrait (1503), the Conestabile Madonna (1504), Three Graces (1504).
The artist works were important for the Renaissance period. Raffaello Santi drew different people.
His paint the Sistine Madonna (1512) is one of the most popular works in the world.
Raphael Santi died on April 6, 1520, in Rome, Italy.
Saturday, May 4, 2019
Great people: Francis Bacon.
He studied in different universities and colleges.
Francis Bacon lived during Elizabethan Era and Renaissance. Also, he became a writer, scientist, and politician.
Bacon said clever words. The philosopher studued empiricism, natural philosophy, and philosophical logic.
Francis Bacon influenced to other philosophers. Bacon died on April 9, 1626, in England.













































