Curated category
1510s births
- Pierre LescotPierre Lescot was born in Paris during the early 1500s. He did not emerge from a family of masons or builders with practical experience.
- Levina TeerlincLevina Teerlinc held a position at the English royal court for thirty years, outlasting four monarchs and collecting an annual salary greater than the…
- Catherine ParrCatherine Parr signed her name as "Kateryn" in the books and letters she left behind, not the spelling later generations settled on.
- Francis WestonFrancis Weston was beheaded on Tower Hill on the 17th of May 1536, twenty-five years old and still protesting his innocence.
- Juan Bautista de ToledoJuan Bautista de Toledo left his name carved in stone on the 23rd of April 1563, inscribed on the cornerstone of El Escorial by Juan de Herrera: "JOANNES…
- Sebestyén Tinódi LantosSebestyén Tinódi Lantos turned the events of Hungary's Ottoman wars into verse and performed them on a lute. In a century when armies and parliaments shaped…
- Jean GoujonJean Goujon arrived in Paris around 1544 carrying the memory of Rouen, the north sea light of Normandy, and possibly the direct impression of Italian stone.
- François ClouetFrançois Clouet died on the 22nd of December 1572, just months after the massacre of St Bartholomew shook France to its foundations.
- John KnoxJohn Knox was born sometime between 1505 and 1515 in Haddington, a small county town in East Lothian, Scotland. He died on the 24th of November 1572.
- Philibert de l'OrmePhilibert de l'Orme was born in Lyon sometime between the 3rd and the 9th of June 1514, the son of a master mason who employed three hundred workers and…