Venice in the Age of Exploration
The atlas holds 11 people and 20 moments here, from 1494 to 1649. The most recorded lives are Ignatius of Loyola, Albrecht Dürer and Giordano Bruno.
Notable people
Albrecht Dürer
from 1494 to 1506
3 moments here
German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the Northern Renaissance. Born and died in Nuremberg, Dürer trained there before traveling through the…
Diego Velázquez
from 1629 to 1649
2 moments here
Spanish Baroque painter and court artist to Philip IV of Spain. Born in Seville, he trained there before establishing his long-term home and career…
Galileo Galilei
in 1592
1 moment here
Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, mathematician, and natural philosopher. Born in Pisa, Galileo was educated in Tuscany, taught mathematics at…
Giordano Bruno
from 1591 to 1592
3 moments here
Italian Renaissance philosopher, Dominican friar, writer, and cosmological theorist. Born at Nola, Bruno studied and lived in Italy, Switzerland,…
Ignatius of Loyola
from 1523 to 1537
4 moments here
Basque Spanish priest, former soldier, and founder of the Society of Jesus. His documented movements span Gipuzkoa, Castile, Catalonia, France, the…
John Milton
in 1639
1 moment here
English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. This chronology follows documented residences, education, continental travel, marriages, public service,…
Leonardo da Vinci
in 1500
1 moment here
Italian Renaissance painter, draftsman, engineer, architect, anatomist, and natural philosopher.…
Michelangelo
from 1494 to 1529
2 moments here
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.…
Michel de Montaigne
in 1580
1 moment here
French Renaissance writer, magistrate, diplomat, and two-term mayor of Bordeaux, best known for the Essais.…
Niccolò Machiavelli
in 1525
1 moment here
Florentine diplomat, civil servant, political theorist, playwright, and historian of the Italian Renaissance.…
Peter Paul Rubens
in 1600
1 moment here
Flemish Baroque painter, designer, humanist, collector, and diplomat. Rubens was born at Siegen, spent formative years in Cologne and Antwerp, worked…
Moments
- 1494 First Italian journey: Venice Albrecht Dürer
- 1494 Brief stay in Venice Michelangelo
- 1500 Flees to Venice Leonardo da Vinci
- 1506 Letter from Venice Albrecht Dürer
- 1506 Second Venetian residence Albrecht Dürer
- 1523 First stay in Venice Ignatius of Loyola
- 1524 Return to Venice Ignatius of Loyola
- 1525 Wool Guild mission Niccolò Machiavelli
- 1529 Flees toward Venice Michelangelo
- 1535 Arrival in Venice before reunion Ignatius of Loyola
- 1537 Ordination in Venice Ignatius of Loyola
- 1580 Visit to Venice Michel de Montaigne
- 1591 Arrival in Venice Giordano Bruno
- 1592 Mocenigo residence in Venice Giordano Bruno
- 1592 Imprisonment at San Domenico di Castello Giordano Bruno
- 1592 Sought the Padua chair in Venice Galileo Galilei
- 1600 First Italian stop in Venice Peter Paul Rubens
- 1629 First Italian journey: Venice Diego Velázquez
- 1639 Stay in Venice John Milton
- 1649 Second Italian journey: Venice Diego Velázquez