(02-27-2015 11:39 PM)UCF08 Wrote: In the bolded area, it sounds exactly like Europe.
There was much more going in Europe than just that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century
Visual artists
See also: Artists of the Tudor court, Renaissance painting, Italian Renaissance painting and Renaissance sculpture
Raphael
Albrecht Dürer
Titian
El Greco
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian painter and sculptor (1475 – 1564).
Bronzino (1503 – 1572), Italian painter
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, (c. 1525 – September 9, 1569)
Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568 – 1625)
Caravaggio, Italian artist (1571 – 1610)
Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553)
Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515–1586)
Albrecht Dürer, German artist, (1471 – 1528)
Rosso Fiorentino (1494 – 1540), Italian painter
Domenico Fontana (1543 – 1607), Italian architect
El Greco (1541 – 1614) was a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance
Hans Holbein the Younger, German artist, (1497 – 1543)
Andrea Palladio (1508 – 1580), Italian architect
Pontormo (1494 – 1557), Italian painter.
Raphael, Italian painter, (1483 – 1520)
Andrea del Sarto (1486–1530), Italian painter.
Titian, Italian painter, (c. 1485 – 1576)
Giorgio Vasari (1511 – 1574), Italian painter, architect, writer and historian.
Paolo Veronese, Italian painter, (1528 – April 19, 1588)
Leonardo da Vinci famous artist and inventor and scientist (1452 – 1519).
Qiu Ying, Chinese painter who belonged to the Wu School and used gongbi brush style (1494 – 1552)
Tintoretto (Italian painter, real name Jacopo Comin; September 29, 1518 – May 31, 1594)
Mimar Sinan (1489–1588) was a civil engineer and chief architect of the Ottoman Empire
Juan de Herrera, Spanish architect (1530-1597)
Musicians and Composers
See also: List of Baroque composers
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Andrea Amati (c. 1520 – c. 1578)
Felice Anerio (c. 1560–1614)
Adriano Banchieri (c. 1557–1634)
Giovanni Bassano (c. 1558–1617)
William Brade (1560–1630)
John Bull (c. 1562–1628)
Antonio de Cabezón (c. 1510–1566)
Giulio Caccini (c. 1545–1618)
Dario Castello (c. 1560–c. 1640)
Emilio de' Cavalieri (c. 1550–March 11, 1602)
Jacques Champion (before 1555–1642)
Manuel Rodrigues Coelho (c. 1555–c. 1635)
John Dowland (1563–1626)
Giles Farnaby (1565–1640)
Alfonso Fontanelli (1557–1622)
Hans Leo Hassler (1562–1612)
Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia (1565–1627)
Giovanni Gabrieli (1557–1612)
Joseph Lupo
Peter Lupo (c. 1535-1608)
Thomas Lupo (c. 1571-c. 1627)
Ascanio Mayone (1565–1627)
Cristóbal de Morales (c. 1500–1553)
Giovanni Bernardino Nanino (c. 1560–1623)
Johannes Nucius (c. 1556–1620)
Claudio Merulo (1533–1604)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, (1525–1594)
Jacopo Peri (1561–1633)
Peter Philips (c. 1560–1628)
Hieronymus Praetorius (1560–1629)
Cipriano de Rore (1516 – 1565)
Paolo Quagliati (c. 1555–1628)
Francisco de Salinas (1513-1590)
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562–1621)
Jean Titelouze (1563–1633)
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (1564–1627)
Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548–1611)
Literature
See also: Renaissance, 16th century in literature, 16th century in poetry, Elizabethan literature, Renaissance literature, Early Modern literature and Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
Miguel de Cervantes
Lope de Vega
William Shakespeare
Michel de Montaigne
Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet and painter, (1483 – 1541)
Mateo Alemán, Spanish novelist and writer (1547 – 1615?)
Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet, (1474 – 1533)
Bâkî, Ottoman Turkish poet. He was known as "Sultan of poets" (1526 – 1600)
Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (c. 1524 –1580).
Baldassare Castiglione, Italian author (1478 – 1529)
Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (1547 – 1616)
John Donne, English metaphysical poet (1572 – 1631)
Alonso de Ercilla, Spanish poet (1533-1594)
Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet (1561 - 1627)
Thomas Heywood, English dramatist (c, early 1570s – 1641)
Ben Jonson, English dramatist (c.1572 – 1637)
Jan Kochanowski, Polish poet (1530 – 1584)
Fuzûlî, Azerbaijani poet (1483 – 1556)
Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (1558 – 1594)
Luis de León, Spanish poet (1527 - 1591)
Thomas Lodge, English dramatist (1558 – 1625)
Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian author (1469 – 1527)
Christopher Marlowe, English poet and dramatist (1564 – 1593).
Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (1533 – 1592).
Thomas More, English politician and author (1478 – 1535).
Miyamoto Musashi, famous warrior in Japan, author of The Book of Five Rings, a treaty on strategy and martial combat. (1584 – 1645)
François Rabelais, French author (c. 1493 – 1553).
Mikołaj Rej, Polish writer (1505 – 1569).
Pierre de Ronsard, French poet. Called the 'Prince of poets' of his generation. (1524 – 1585).
William Shakespeare, English playwright (1564 – 1616).
Edmund Spenser, English poet (c. 1552 – 1599)
Gian Giorgio Trissino, Italian humanist, poet, dramatist, diplomat, and grammarian (1478 – 1550)
Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet (1501 - 1536)
Lope de Vega, Spanish dramatist (1562 – 1635).
Benedetto Varchi, Italian humanist, a historian and poet (1502/1503 - 1565)
Science and Philosophy
See also: Scientific Revolution
Niccolò Machiavelli
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Miguel Servet
Mulla Sadra, (1571-1641), the single most important and influential philosopher in the Muslim world in the last four hundred years who introduced Transcendent Theosophy or al-hikmah al-muta'liyah
Sir Francis Bacon, (1561 – 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist.
Pietro Bembo (1470 – 1547), Italian scholar, poet, literary theorist and a cardinal.
Tycho Brahe, (1546 – 1601), Danish astronomer.
Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher and astronomer/astrologer (1548 – 1600).
Tommaso Campanella (1568 – 1639), Italian philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet.
Demetrios Chalkokondyles, (1423 – 1511), Greek humanist, scholar.
Nicolaus Copernicus, (1473 – 1543) astronomer, developed the heliocentric (Sun-centered) theory using scientific methods.
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (sometimes known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam) (October 27, 1466/1469, Rotterdam– July 12, 1536 Basel was a Dutch Renaissance humanist and Catholic Christian theologian.
Galileo Galilei (1564[18] – 1642) was a Tuscan (Italian) physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution.
Konrad Gessner (1516 – 1565) was a Swiss naturalist, bibliographer, Botanist, His three-volume Historiae animalium (1551–1558) is considered the beginning of modern zoology
William Gilbert, also known as Gilberd, (1544 – 1603) was an English physician and a natural philosopher.
Francesco Guicciardini, (1483 – 1540) Italian historian and statesman.
Johannes Kepler, (1571 - 1630), German mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution.
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 – 1527), Italian historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist, and writer.
Gerardus Mercator (5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594), famous cartographer.
Michael Servetus (1509 or 1511 – 27 October 1553), Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer, and Renaissance humanist.
Francisco Suarez (1548 – 1617), Spanish philosopher and theologian.
Andreas Vesalius (Brussels, December 31, 1514 – Zakynthos, October 15, 1564) was an anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica (On the Workings of the Human Body). Vesalius is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy.
Edward Wright, (baptized 1561; died 1615), English mathematician and cartographer who determined the mathematical basis of the Mercator projection and produced the first maps in England according to this method
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
Related article: List of 16th century inventions.
The Columbian Exchange introduces many plants, animals and diseases to the Old and New Worlds.
Introduction of the spinning wheel revolutionizes textile production in Europe.
The letter J is introduced into the English alphabet.
1500: First portable watch is created by Peter Henlein of Germany.
1513: Juan Ponce de León sights Florida and Vasco Núñez de Balboa sights the eastern edge of the Pacific Ocean.
1519–22: Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano lead the first circumnavigation of the World.
1519–1540: In America, Hernando de Soto expeditions map the Gulf of Mexico coastline and bays.
1525: Modern square root symbol (√)
1540: Francisco Vásquez de Coronado sights the Grand Canyon.
1541–42: Francisco de Orellana sails the length of the Amazon River.
1543: Copernicus publishes his theory that the Earth and the other planets revolve around the Sun
1545: Theory of complex numbers is first developed by Gerolamo Cardamo of Italy.
1558: Camera obscura is first used in Europe by Giambattista della Porta of Italy.
1559–1562: Spanish settlements in Alabama/Florida and Georgia confirm dangers of hurricanes and local native warring tribes.
1565: Spanish settlers outside New Spain (Mexico) colonize Florida's coastline at St. Augustine.
1565: Invention of the graphite pencil (in a wooden holder) by Conrad Gesner. Modernized in 1812.
1568: Gerardus Mercator creates the first Mercator projection map.
1572: Supernova SN 1572 is observed by Tycho Brahe in the Milky Way.
1582: Gregorian calendar is introduced in Europe by Pope Gregory XIII and adopted by catholic countries.
c. 1583: Galileo Galilei of Pisa, Italy identifies the constant swing of a pendulum, leading to development of reliable timekeepers.
1585: earliest known reference to the 'sailing carriage' in China.
1589: William Lee invents the stocking frame.
1591: First flush toilet is introduced by Sir John Harrington of England, the design published under the title 'The Metamorphosis of Ajax'.
1593: Galileo Galilei invents a thermometer.
1596: William Barents discovers Spitsbergen.
1597: Opera in Florence by Jacopo Peri.
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