* Adrian Willaert ( c. 1490 – 1562 ), Flemish composer of the Renaissance and founder of the Venetian School

* Lamentatio sanctae matris ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae, a motet by the Renaissance composer Guillaume Dufay.

Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta ( 1526 / 1535 – 1605 / 1620 ) was an Italian Renaissance dancing master and a composer or transcriber of dance music.

* Jacob Obrecht, composer of the Renaissance ( c. 1457 – 1505 )

* Cornelius Canis, composer of the Renaissance, music director for the chapel of Charles V in the 1540s – 1550s

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ( 3 February 1525 or 2 February 1526 – 2 February 1594 ) was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition.

This produced a smoother and more consonant type of polyphony which we now consider to be definitive of late Renaissance music, given Palestrina's position as Europe's leading composer ( along with Lassus ) in the wake of Josquin ( d. 1521 ).

The " Palestrina style " now serves as a basis for college Renaissance counterpoint classes, thanks in large part to the efforts of the 18th century composer and theorist Johann Joseph Fux, who, in a book called Gradus ad Parnassum ( Steps to Parnassus, 1725 ), set about codifying Palestrina's techniques as a pedagogical tool for students of composition.

Though Palestrina represents late Renaissance music well, others such as Orlande de Lassus ( a Franco-Flemish composer who also spent some of his early career in Italy ) and William Byrd were arguably more versatile.

John Dowland ( 1563 – buried 20 February 1626 ) was an English Renaissance composer, singer, and lutenist.

Martin Agricola ( 6 January 1486 – 10 June 1556 ) was a German composer of Renaissance music and a music theorist.

* Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, an Italian Renaissance composer

Julius extended his patronage to the great Renaissance composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, whom he brought to Rome as his maestro di cappella, Giorgio Vasari, who supervised the design of the Villa Giulia, and to Michelangelo, who worked there.

* Adrien Basin ( – 1476 ; died after 1498 ), Franco-Flemish composer, singer, and diplomat of the Burgundian school of the early Renaissance.

* Antoine Busnois ( – 1492 ), French composer and poet of the early Renaissance Burgundian School.

* Hayne van Ghizeghem ( – 1472 or possibly later ; New Grove says he died between 1472 and 1497 ), Flemish composer of the early Renaissance Burgundian School.

* Nicolas Grenon ( – 1456 ), French composer of the early Renaissance.

* Robert Morton ( – 1479 ), English composer of the early Renaissance.

* Leonel Power ( – 1445 ), English composer of the late Medieval and early Renaissance eras.

* Jacobus Vide ( – 1433 ), Franco-Flemish composer of the transitional period between the medieval period and early Renaissance.

* Josquin des Prez ( – 1521 ), Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance.

** Krzysztof Klabon, Polish Renaissance composer ( b. 1550 )

William Byrd (; 1540 or late 1539 – 4 July 1623, by the Julian calendar, 14 July 1623, by the Gregorian calendar ) was an English composer of the Renaissance.

Josquin des Prez Lebloitte dit Desprez (; c. 1450 / 1455 – 27 August 1521 ), often referred to simply as Josquin, was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance.

Giovanni Caboto ( John Cabot ) reportedly visited the island in 1497 to become the first Renaissance European explorer to visit present-day Canada.

Giovanni Boccaccio (; 1313 – 21 December 1375 ) was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist and the author of a number of notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and his poetry in the Italian vernacular.

Maybe also that this hilltop dwelling, commissioned by Giovanni de ' Medici, Cosimo il Vecchio's second son, with its view over the city, is the very first example of a Renaissance villa: that is to say it follows the Albertian criteria for rendering a country dwelling a " villa suburbana ".

Masaccio (; December 21, 1401 – autumn 1428 ), born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, was the first great painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance.

* Count Giovanni Pico della Mirandola ( 1463 – 1494 ), Italian Renaissance philosopher.

The genre was first marked out by writers of the Renaissance, such as Giovanni Francesco Straparola and Giambattista Basile, and stabilized through the works of later collectors such as Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm.

Some of the better-known composers of this time include Dufay, Josquin des Prez, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and William Byrd ; the glories of Renaissance polyphony were choral, sung by choirs of great skill and distinction all over Europe.

A large open atrium, which once existed at the west, is now completely destroyed, having been replaced by a Renaissance portico by Giovanni Domenico and Fazio Gagini ( 1547 – 1569 ).

* In the Piazza dei Signori is the beautiful loggia called the Gran Guardia, ( 1493 – 1526 ), and close by is the Palazzo del Capitaniato, the residence of the Venetian governors, with its great door, the work of Giovanni Maria Falconetto, the Veronese architect-sculptor who introduced Renaissance architecture to Padua and who completed the door in 1532.

The Tudor gatehouse and astrological clock, made for Henry VIII in 1540 ( C on plan above ) Two of the Renaissance bas relief s by Giovanni di Maiano can be seen set into the brickwork.

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Count Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (; 24 February 1463 – 17 November 1494 ) was an Italian Renaissance philosopher.

" ( Lanciani, 1896 ch 1 ) Like prophets, Renaissance sibyls forecasting the advent of Christ appear in monuments: modelled by Giacomo della Porta in the Santa Casa at Loreto, painted by Raphael in Santa Maria della Pace, by Pinturicchio in the Borgia apartments of the Vatican, engraved by Baccio Baldini, a contemporary of Botticelli, and graffites by Matteo di Giovanni in the pavement of the Duomo of Siena.

* Giovanni Pico della Mirandola ( 1463 – 1494 ) Italian philosopher who was a major figure in the Renaissance ; at the age of 23 he proposed 900 theses on religion, natural philosophy and magic, writing the Oration on the Dignity of Man, which was a central text in Renaissance humanism and has been called the movement's manifesto

The transition was a development of Classical times which became the standard image during the Middle Ages and has been adopted by the European poets of the Renaissance and later: Giovanni Boccaccio's Genealogia deorum gentilium libri ( 10. 27 ) identifies Pegasus as the steed of Perseus, and Pierre Corneille places Perseus upon Pegasus in Andromède.

Giovanni Bellini ( c. 1430 – 1516 ) was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters.

Giambologna, born as Jean Boulogne, incorrectly known as Giovanni da Bologna and Giovanni Bologna ( 1529 – 13 August 1608 ), was a sculptor, known for his marble and bronze statuary in a late Renaissance or Mannerist style.

Lorenzo Monaco ( born Piero di Giovanni ; c. 1370 – c. 1425 ) was an Italian painter of the late Gothic-early Renaissance age.

Opposite the Loggia del Lionello is the Loggia di San Giovanni, a Renaissance structure designed by Bernardino da Morcote.