People of the Renaissance

Born in Madrid Spain. He was a gifted writer who wrote plays, poems, and novels. 

Masterpiece is Don Quixote, pokes fun at romantic stories of heroic knights & Spanish society

He was persuasive, used blobs of paint to create vivid form, & painted myths and Bible stories

She was one of England's most popular & successful monarchs. Never married and highly educated

Created a unified Spain and sponsored the voyages of Christopher Columbus.

Painted the Mona Lisa.

Born near Florence, he was a true Renaissance Man.

Her reign is called England's Golden Age. She made England the strongest and richest country.

Revolutionary idea that Earth and other planets orbit the sun. Earth rotates on an axis.

His famous works include the statue of David and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Born in Poland. Often called the "Father of Modern Astronomy"

This person was especially skilled at making engravings and woodcuts.

Born in Brussels, what is now Belgium and his work changed medicine and the study of anatomy.

His art combines Renaissance ideals of beauty with emotional expressiveness.

Italian Painter born in the Italian Alps. He was the greatest Renaissance painter in Venice.

Born in Stratford von Avon. English poet consider to be the world's greatest playwright & poet.

Began dissecting dead human bodies. Wrote a book considered the 1st modern medical textbook.

He was a German artist, made famous by his paintings, drawings, prints, and essays about art.

He designed weapons, buildings, and machines. He was a great inventor, painter, engineer.

Queen of Spain, she forced all Jews who refused to convert to Catholicism to leave.

Some of his most popular works are Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, & Julius Caesar.

Dramatically improved on existing printing methods. Could produce 300 pages in a single day.