Curated playlist
1510s births
- Pierre LescotOn the 10th of September 1578, the French architect Pierre Lescot died. He worked in the French Renaissance, and he left Paris two landmarks, the Fontaine des Innocents and the Lescot wing of the Louvre. The wing set the standard for…
- Levina TeerlincLevina Teerlinc earned more at England's royal court than Hans Holbein the Younger.
- Catherine ParrCatherine Parr avoided arrest by telling Henry VIII she argued religion to distract him from his leg pain.
- Francis WestonFrancis Weston was beheaded at 25 for treason, still protesting his innocence. He had beaten King Henry VIII at games.
- Juan Bautista de ToledoEl Escorial's cornerstone, set in 1563, names Juan Bautista de Toledo as chief architect.
- Sebestyén Tinódi LantosSebestyén Tinódi Lantos sang Hungary's Ottoman wars, playing his lute. He wrote poems about battles he witnessed.
- Jean GoujonSculptor Jean Goujon carved for the king, then fled France in 1562. He was a Huguenot, a French Protestant.
- François ClouetA portrait by court painter François Clouet helped inspire Lévi-Strauss's theory of art as miniature models.
- John KnoxJohn Knox was chained to a French galley bench and vowed he would preach again in St Andrews.
- Philibert de l'OrmeTwo days after King Henry II died in 1559, architect Philibert de l'Orme was fired.