Categories: 1582 | Years in art For James Crichton, the recipient of the Victoria Cross, see James Crichton (VC) James Crichton (the Admirable Crichton) (1560 - 1582) was a significant Scottish scholar. ... Leonardo da Vinci is seen as an epitome of the Renaissance man or polymath A polymath (Greek polymathēs, πολυμαθής, meaning knowing, understanding, or having learnt in quantity, compounded from πολυ- much, many, and the root μαθ-, meaning learning, understanding[1]) is a person well educated in a wide variety of subjects or... See also: 1559 in art, other 1560 events, 1561 in art, and list of years in art. ... Jacques Peletier du Mans (1517 Le Mans – 1582 Paris) was a humanist, poet and mathematician of the French Renaissance. ... See also: 1516 in art, other events of 1517, 1518 in art, List of years in art // Hans Baldung leaves Freiburg and returns to Strasbourg Sebastiano del Piombo begins painting The Raising of Lazarus Perugino completes the altarpiece for the San Agostino Church in Perugia Pontormo begins work on Joseph...