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Palladio was an Italian architect active in the Republic of Venice. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily by Vitruvius, is widely considered to be one of the most influential individuals in the history of architecture.

Dürer was a painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Known for his high-quality woodcut prints and also for his theoretical treatises on art.

Brunelleschi was an Italian designer and a key figure in architecture, recognized to be the first modern engineer, planner, and sole construction supervisor. He was the oldest amongst the founding fathers of the Renaissance. He formulated the laws of perspective and designed the dome of the Florence Cathedral.

Giotto was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance.

Alberti was an Italian humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomized the Renaissance Man. Although he is often characterized as an architect, as a true Renaissance humanist, he was also accomplished in many other fields.

Petrarch was a scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists. He is often considered the founder of Humanism. His sonnets were deeply admired and emulated in Renaissance Europe and he has been called the 'Father of Humanism'.

Gutenberg was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe with his mechanical movable-type printing press. His Gutenberg Bible was the first book printed using mass-produced movable metal type.

Donatello was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance. He is known for his work in bas-relief, a form of shallow relief sculpture that, in Donatello's case, incorporated significant 15th-century developments in perspective illusionism.

Galileo was a physicist, mathematician, engineer, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution; notable for his improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations.

Raphael was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his art. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition. Known for 'The School of Athens' painting.

Botticelli was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance who painted 'The Birth of Venus' and 'Primavera'.

Michelangelo was a sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, renowned for sculpting 'David' and 'Pieta', and for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

Copernicus was a mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at its center.

Erasmus was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian. Erasmus wrote 'In Praise of Folly' and translated the New Testament into Greek, which played a crucial role in the formation of the Protestant Reformation.

Petrarch was a scholar and poet of early Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists. His sonnets were admired and imitated throughout Europe during the Renaissance and he is also known as the 'Father of Humanism'.

Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor, considered by many as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is known for works such as 'Hamlet', 'Romeo and Juliet', and 'Macbeth'.

Dante was a major Italian poet of the Middle Ages whose 'Divine Comedy' is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.

Titian was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was known for his versatile painting style, especially in the use of color and was an important contributor to the Venetian Renaissance.

Lorenzo de’ Medici, also known as 'Lorenzo the Magnificent', was an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance. He was a patron of scholars, artists, and poets; his support of the arts and humanities made Florence a center of the Renaissance.