6. Italian Renaissance

7. Botticelli: Birth of Venus

8. Michelangelo: David

9. Michelangelo: Sistine Chapel

10. Leonardo Da Vinci
Mona Lisa

11. Raphael: School of Athens

12. Raphael:
Madonna and
Child

13. Titian: Woman with Mirror

14. Titian: Venus of Urbino

15. Northern Renaissance

16. Durer:
4 Horsemen of the
Apocalypse

17. Knight, Death and Devil
Durer

20. Bosch, Hieronymus
Last Judgement

21. Bosch: The Last Judgement

23. Van Eyck: Amolfini Wedding
Portrait

24. Holbein – The Ambassadors

25. Castiglione – The Courtier
“… I am of opinion that the principal and true profession of the Courtier ought to be that of arms; which I would have him follow above all else, and be known among others as bold and strong, and loyal to whomsoever he serves…”

26. Thomas More - Utopia
“For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”

27. Petrarch- father of Humanism
“Five enemies of peace inhabit with us — avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.”
Songbook
On the Solitary Life

28. Desiderious Erasmus
For I utterly dissent from those who are unwilling that the sacred Scriptures should be read by the unlearned translated into their vulgar tongue, as though Christ had taught such subtleties that they can scarcely be understood even by a few theologians…
Christ wished his mysteries to be published as openly as possible.
- Preface to New Testament

29. Christopher Columbus
Four voyages

30. Nicolaus Copernicus
Heliocentrism

31. Andreas Vesalius
On the Fabric of the Human Body

32. Pico della Mirandola

33. William Shakespeare