Trayy did it all by Travick Ward

1453

travickw8907 — 2024-08-15 15:20:43 UTC

After the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire, many Eastern scholars fled to Italy. They brought books and manuscripts of Classical Greek wisdom and knowledge, which helped foster Renaissance ideas and values throughout Europe.

1414

reggiep7258 — 2024-08-15 15:39:56 UTC

The Renaissance was a vibrant European cultural, artistic, political, and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages. Generally described as taking place from the 14th century to the 17th century.

1469

travickw8907 — 2024-08-16 14:32:16 UTC

Florence [Italy]—died April 9, 1492, Careggi, near Florence) was a Florentine statesman, ruler, and patron of arts and letters, the most brilliant of the Medici. He ruled Florence with his younger brother, Giuliano (1453–78), from 1469 to 1478 and, after the latter’s assassination, was the sole ruler from 1478 to 1492.

1485

travickw8907 — 2024-08-16 14:33:24 UTC

How did Henry VII become king? Henry VII declared himself king by just title of inheritance and by the judgment of God in battle, after slaying Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. He was crowned on October 30 and secured parliamentary recognition of his title early in November.

1486

travickw8907 — 2024-08-16 14:34:59 UTC

Known as the “Birth of Venus”, the composition actually shows the goddess of love and beauty arriving on land, on the island of Cyprus, born of the sea spray and blown there by the winds, Zephyr and, perhaps, Aura. The goddess is standing on a giant scallop shell, as pure and as perfect as a pearl.

1492

travickw8907 — 2024-08-16 14:35:52 UTC

Columbus left Castile in August 1492 with three ships and made landfall in the Americas on 12 October, ending the period of human habitation in the Americas now referred to as the pre-Columbian era. His landing place was an island in the Bahamas, known by its native inhabitants as Guanahani.

1495

travickw8907 — 2024-08-16 14:37:01 UTC

Leonardo di Vinci's mural of the Last Supper was painted on the wall in the refectory of the Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan between 1495 and 1498. Leonardo used an experimental technique- applying tempera paint and mixed media directly to the stone wall.

1498

travickw8907 — 2024-08-16 14:37:48 UTC

1498 - Vasco da Gama arrives in India after sailing around the southern tip of Africa from Portugal.

1501

travickw8907 — 2024-08-16 14:38:49 UTC

The said Michelangelo began to work on the said giant on the morning of 13 September 1501, although a few days earlier, on 9 September, he had with one or two blows of the chisel (uno vel duo ictibus) removed a certain nodus (quoddam nodum) that it had on its chest.

1503

travickw8907 — 2024-08-16 14:40:16 UTC

Mona Lisa, oil painting on a poplar wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, probably the world’s most famous painting. It was painted sometime between 1503 and 1519, when Leonardo was living in Florence, and it now hangs in the Louvre Museum, Paris, where it remained an object of pilgrimage in the 21st century. The sitter’s mysterious smile and her unproven identity have made the painting a source of ongoing investigation and fascination.

1508

travickw8907 — 2024-08-16 14:41:10 UTC

Michelangelo began to work on the frescoes for Pope Julius II in 1508, replacing a blue ceiling dotted with stars. Originally, the pope asked Michelangelo to paint the ceiling with a geometric ornament, and place the twelve apostles in spandrels around the decoration.

1509

travickw8907 — 2024-08-16 14:42:08 UTC

Henry VIII (1491–1547) is one of the most written about kings in English history. He established the Church of England and the Royal Navy. Henry VIII came to the throne when his father Henry VII died on 21 April 1509.

1509

travickw8907 — 2024-08-16 14:43:29 UTC

In Praise of Folly, also translated as The Praise of Folly (Latin: Stultitiae Laus or Moriae Encomium), is an essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in June 1511. Inspired by previous works of the Italian humanist Faustino Perisauli

1511

travickw8907 — 2024-08-16 14:44:12 UTC

The School of Athens (Italian: Scuola di Atene) is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between 1509 and 1511 as part of a commission by Pope Julius II to decorate the rooms now called the Stanze di Raffaello in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City.