Renaissance: Home

Vesalius dissected human bodies, correcting errors in earlier studies and laying the foundation for modern anatomy.

Lorenzo de Medici, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Copernicus, Petrarch, Raphael, Galileo, Michel de Montaigne, Machiavelli, Shakespeare

Isabella I of Castile, Catherine of Aragon, Margaret of Austria, Anne de Beaujeu, Louise of Savoy, Marguerite of Navarre, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I

Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Brunelleschi, Leonardo, Vesalius, Gutenberg. The film looks at the development of scientific thinking and method and cooperation between Renaisssance artists and scientists

Columbus, Magellan, Da Gama, Prince Henry the Navigator. The Spice Route, the slave trade and the worldwide effects of expanded trade on people living during the Renaissance.

Leonardo, Michelangelo, Titian, Raphael, Botticelli

Vesalius, Pare, Harvey, Hunter

Includes biographical notes about five artists and their legacies: Jan van Eyck, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian