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1377 CE - 1446 CE: Life of the Italian Renaissance architect and sculptor Filippo Brunelleschi.
1404 CE - 1472 CE: Life of the Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti.
1418 CE - 1428 CE: The Old Sacristy of San Lorenzo, Florence is built according to the design by Filippo Brunelleschi.
1419 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi designs the influential Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence.
1436 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi completes the dome of the cathedral of Florence.
1444 CE - 1514 CE: Life of the Italian Renaissance architect Donato Bramante.
1450 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti designs the facade for the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini.
1450 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti designs the Palazzo Rucellai in Florence.
1456 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti translates his treatise on architecture, On Building (De Re Aedificatoria) into the Tuscan vernacular.
1458 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti designs the new facade for the Santa Maria Novella church in Florence.
1460 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti designs the San Sebastiano church in Mantua.
1470 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti designs the Basilica San Andrea in Mantua.
1475 CE - 1554 CE: Life of the Italian Renaissance architect Sebastiano Serlio.
1492 CE - 1494 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Donato Bramante likely works on the rectangular piazza in Vigevano.
1499 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Donato Bramante moves to Rome.
1500 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Bramante designs the cloister for the Santa Maria della Pace church in Rome.
1501 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Donato Bramante designs the Palazzo Caprini in Rome, aka 'Raphael's House'.
1502 CE: Leonardo da Vinci moves to Rome where he works for Cesare Borgia to sort out the city’s canals.
1502 CE: Leonardo da Vinci produces his precise overhead view map of Imola, the first map of its kind.
1502 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Donato Bramante designs the Tempietto of San Pietro in Montorio, Rome.
1504 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Donato Bramante redesigns the space between the Vatican Palace and the Villa Belvedere in Rome.
1506 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Donato Bramante creates his design for the new Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome.
1508 CE - 1580 CE: Life of the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.
1512 CE: The Laurentian Library, San Lorenzo in Florence, designed by Michelangelo, is completed.
1517 CE: Antonio da Sangallo the Younger designs the High Renaissance Palazzo Farnese in Rome.
1517 CE: Leonardo da Vinci moves to France to work for Francis I of France.
1519 CE - 1547 CE: The Chateau de Chambord in the Loire Valley of France is built.
1537 CE - 1551 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Sebastiano Serlio writes what would become known as his Seven Books on Architecture.
1544 CE - 1546 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Sebastiano Serlio works on his design of the Château d’Ancy-le-Franc in France.
1544 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo begins his redesign of the Capitoline Hill in Rome.
1546 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio designs the new facade for the town hall of Vicenza (the Basilica Palladiana).
1547 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo begins working on the soaring dome of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome (completed in 1590 CE).
1550 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio designs the Palazzo Chiericati in Vicenza.
1551 CE: The Villa Valmarana, aka ‘La Rotonda’, near Vicenza and designed by Andrea Palladio, is built.
1556 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio provides a series of illustrations for a new edition of Vitruvius’ 'On Architecture'.
1558 CE: The Mannerist Palazzo Marino courtyard in Milan, designed by Galeazzo Alessi, is completed.
1565 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio designs the San Giorgio Maggiore church in Venice.
1570 CE: The Four Books of Architecture by Andrea Palladio is published.
1576 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio designs the church now commonly known as Il Redentore in Venice.
1580 CE: The Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, is completed according to a design by Andrea Palladio.
1626 CE: St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is completed.