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List of Renaissance figures

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Leonardo da Vinci, the archetype of the Renaissance man

This is a list of notable people associated with the Renaissance.

Artists and architects

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Filippo Brunelleschi
Albrecht Dürer
Michelangelo
Sandro Botticelli
Titian
El Greco

Mathematicians

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Nicolaus Copernicus
Galileo Galilei

Writers

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William Shakespeare

Philosophers

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Niccolò Machiavelli

Composers

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Orlande de Lassus
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Dancing masters

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Explorers and navigators

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Christopher Columbus
Hernán Cortés

Humanists

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Erasmus of Rotterdam

Other influential people

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Johannes Gutenberg

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Vasco Nunez de Balboa". www.newadvent.org. Retrieved 2017-04-26.