Who is a prominent person from the Renaissance?

Question

Who is a prominent person from the Renaissance?

Answer 1

There are many different periods of the Renaissance...

Answer 2

Leonardo Da Vinci, of course.

Answer 3

Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence.

Answer 4

Italy

Lorenzo de Medici

Cesare Borgia

England

Thomas More

Thomas Cardinal Wolsey

Answer 5

Sir Thomas Gresham, who founded Gresham College, off Holborn, in central London in 1597, under his Will.

Answer 6

Here's a list of some people you can choose from that haven't already been mentioned by previous posters:

Michaelangelo

Raphael

Dante

Lorenzo d'Medici

Galileo

Shakespeare

Brunelleschi

Titian

Answer 7

Claudio Monteverdi, a late brilliant Renaissance madrigalist who almost single-handedly re-invented the art of music.

Thomas Tallis, an English Church musician, who wrote exquisite modal polyphony.

Palestrina, Vittoria, Gibbons, etc., etc...

In the arts, this period has so many brilliant people involved, that a telephone book wouldn't hold all the worthy names!