What are some of the Renaissance characteristics of this painting by Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel? Known for painting peasant life.

Albrecht Dürer (1471 – 1528) : German painter, print maker and theorist of Renaissance era. Dürer applied painting techniques he learned in Italy to engravings or wood carvings. (Late 1400s to early 1520s)

Desiderius Erasmus (1466 – 1536): Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian. He believed that the Bible should be accessible to the common folk using the vernacular they understand.

Sir Thomas More (1478 – 1535), venerated by Roman Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He famously wrote Utopia in 1516 about the political system of an imaginary ideal island nation. In Utopia, there are no lawyers because of the laws' simplicity and because social gatherings are in public view (encouraging participants to behave well), communal ownership supplants private property, men and women are educated alike, and there is almost complete religious toleration (except for atheists, who are allowed but despised). Utopia gave rise to a literary genre, Utopian and dystopian fiction, which features ideal societies or perfect cities, or their opposite. Utopia was published in England 16 years after More was beheaded for opposing the King.

François Rabelais (1483 and 1494 – 1553) was a French Renaissance writer, humanist, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs. His best known work is Gargantua and Pantagruel. Western literary critics considered him one of the great writers of world literature and among the creators of modern European writing. His literary legacy is such that today, the word Rabelaisian has been coined as someone or something that is "marked by gross robust humor, extravagance of caricature, or bold naturalism."(Wiki)

William Shakespeare (1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. He is also credited with creating 1700 words.

Johannes Gutenberg (1398 – 1468) was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe.

His introduction of mechanical movable type printing to Europe started the Printing Revolution and is widely regarded as the most important invention of the second millennium, the seminal event which ushered in the modern period of human history.

It played a key role in the development of the Renaissance, Reformation, the Age of Enlightenment, and the scientific revolution and laid the material basis for the modern knowledge-based economy and the spread of learning to the masses.