MICHELANGELO BUONAROTTI

I am Michelangelo Bounaroti, I was born in Capresse (La Toscana) 6th March 1475, I am the second of five sons. I am a very famous architect, sculptor and Renaissance painter. From very small I was a very good artist. One of my first works are Masaccio and Giotto but my most important work is La Pietat, El David commissioned by Piero Soderini that was a big fan of mine. I was dating with Tommaso Cavalieri and then with Vittoria Colonna and when she dies in 1547 I was very unhappy. In 1496 I went to Rome to paint the Sistine Chapel because the pope told me.

My most popular works were The creation of man, the final judgment and Delfos and Silfíde.

In 1518 I made the facade of San Lonrenzo I improve the Palazzo Medici Riccardi in 1546 I desing the Capitol square.

I come back to the Toscana in 1501.

During my last twenty years I focus on architecture works directing the works of the Laurentian Library in Florence and in Rome, the remodeling of the Capitol Square, the Sforza chapel of St. Mary Major, the completion of the Farnese Palace, and above all, the end of the Basilica of St. Peter's. I died in 1564, in Rome before see finished my work. I was borried in the churche of Santa Croce.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Hi, I’m Leonardo DA Vinci, an Italian painter, considered one of the greatest painters of all time. I was born in Vinci, on April 15, in 1452, and I died at Amboise on May 2, in 1519.I studied with the famous Florentine painter, Andrea Verrocchio. I was considered an universal archetype and symbol of the Renaissance man, and I am also the person with the highest number of talents in various disciplines that has never existed among disciplines, including architecture, painting, science etc. In 1466 it was the year in which I began my learning with Andrea Del Verrocchio, and in this time exactly the great sculptor Donatello died. Michael Angel, Rafael and I were not of the same generation but we were considered to be three giants of the Renaissance. I spent my youth in my home in Florence. Isabel of East seems to have been my only female friend. I use the technique of the “sfumato”, a technique which involved blurring outlines to create a sense of depth, in my works and two of the most important works were the Giocconda and The Last Dinner. As a engineer and inventor,I developed ideas very ahead of my time, such as helicopter, tank, submarine and the automobile. Very few of my projects came to be build(including the machine to measure the yield strength of a cable). As a scientist,I made progress much knowledge in the fields of anatomy, civil engineering, optics and hydrodynamics.

COPERNICUS

I was a Polish astronomer of the Renaissance. I was born on Turu´n, Prusa ( Poland ); and I died in Frombork, Prussia ( Poland ). I Studied the heliocentric theory of the solar system. I was a mathematician, astronomer, jurist, physical, catholic cleric, governor, administrator, military leader, diplomat and economist. His book De revolutionibus orbium celestium is considerate the first pilar or the founder of the modern astrology.

HERNÁN CORTÉS

I was born in Bajadoz in the 1485 and I died in Sevilla in the 1547, I am the son of Martin Cortés and of Catalina Pizarro Altamirano, I had two wives and eleven children in two different relations, and I was conqueror of the Aztec empire, and I also went the first marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca, governor, captain general of New Spain.My mother´s second cousin was Francisco Pizarro, who later conquered the Inca empire. Like other gentlemen, my father sent me at age fourteen to study law at Salamanca, a city thet left two year later, moved by my desire for adventure. After several failed attempts to embark for the Indies, and, secondly, to participate in the campaings of Gonzalo Fernandez of Cordoba in Italy, finally, in the spring of 1504, I sailed to the island of La Española, where I settled as a planter and colonial official. I was the person who brought the chocolate among other things to Spain of my travels to new world, America. I landed in Cuba, and conquered many territories, including the Aztecs and Mayans empires, the actual Mexico. I was an important conqueros whogot added larges territories to the Crown of Castile. My travels most importants were: one, where I discovered California, other was my travel to “Las Hibueras” and the most famous, where I conquered the Aztec empire ( Mexico ).

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

Nobody knows were I was born, but I was born in 1451. I was a navigator and cartographer. The crown of Castile appointed me Admiral, viceroy and governor General of India because I thought I had discovered the India but in reality, I was discover America. I thought that the Earth is spherical, but smaller that in reality is.

I went to Portugal to ask for aid to the king, and later I was go to ask for aid to Spanish kings and with their help I headed to the Indians wanting to travel around the world. The queen Isabel accept the idea and pay the travel. Make four trips to America.

On the first trip I left Huelva with the caravels the 'Pinta', the 'Niña' and the 'Santa Maria'. But about two months after we saw land, arrives at an island in the Bahamas but

I believe reach India. So discovered America but never knew.

In the second I was discovered Cuba, Jamaica and Puerto Rico and found the city of La Isabella. This trip I did to explore, colonize and spread the Catholic faith, but I need returns to Spain because I was govern bad La Española. When I get to 'La Española' I found that La Española were unhappy, feeling cheated by me on the wealth they would find. In the third trip I was discover Trinidad and the estuary of the Orinoco.But the problem whit La Española obliged me to go to Spain and stay in prision when I was go out i was go to my last trip. I was visit Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. I vent to Spain the same year when I death.

CATHERINE OF ARAGÓN

I was born on December 15, 1485 at the Archbishop's Palace of Alcala of Henares.I was the daughter of my parents, who are, Philip II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile. I was the granddaughter of King Edward III of England. I was like my mother, blond, blue eyes clear, intelligent and dedicated. When I was about children who studied French, Flemish, English, Latin, dance, music and other things. I saw the conquest of Granada. I was living there because my parents believed that Spain was the capital of Granada. Then I went with my family to Santa Fe. I went to England to marry Arthur gales. However, in the Bay of Biscay, the ship dismasted. Seven months later my husband died. On June 11, 1509 came the marriage to Henry VIII. It was a happy marriage, but had many problems:

In 1510, one of my daughters died after birth.

On January 1, 1511 my first child died 52 days.

● In 1513, an abortion.

● In 1514, my second son died one month.

● In 1516 I had Maria of England.

● In 1518 another abortion.

Finally, I died in 1536 of cancer, and my daughter Mary became Queen of England.

DONATELLO

My name is Donatello. I was an Italian artist and sculptor, and I was born in 1386, in Florence. In Florence I learned the basics of sculpting at the stonemasons´guild. After it I became an apprentice of Lorenzo Ghiberti. At the age of seventeen I was working for his master on the bronze panels of the Florentine baptistery.

In 1408 I sculpted one of my earliest known works, the “David”, a marble life-size sculpture. Rapidly I produced a strong and original style in two works: the large marble figure St. Mark on the outside of Orsanmichele, and St. John the evangelist for the facade of the Cathedral. My new style was confirmed in the famous St. George carved in marble around 1416 for the exterior of Orsanmichele.

I was requested to create many pieces or works, which I often executed with other artists.

Around 1425 I went into a partnership with Michelozzo, a sculptor and architect, with whom I made a trip to Rome after 1429.

Much of my later work demonstrates my understanding of classical art. From 1443 to 1453 I was in Padua, Italy, where in the Piazza del Santo I created the colossal bronze equestrian monument to the Venetian condottiere called Gattamelata.

Back in Florence I carved a haunting, unhealthy Mary Magdalen for the Baptistery.

On my death on December 13, 1466, two unfinished bronze pulpits were left in Saint Lorenzo, Florence. Giovanni, my pupil, finished them.