Timeline
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1377 - 1446Life of the Italian Renaissance architect and sculptor Filippo Brunelleschi.
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c. 1386 - 1466The life of the Italian Renaissance artist Donatello.
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1420 - 1450The Italian Renaissance artist Donatello sculpts his bronze David in Florence.
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1425 - 1452The Italian Renaissance sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti works on his second set of doors, the 'Gates of Paradise', for the Baptistery of Florence's Cathedral.
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c. 1431 - 1506Life of the Italian Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna.
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1432The Ghent Altarpiece is completed by the Netherlandish Renaissance artists Jan van Eyck and Hubert van Eyck.
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1436The Italian Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi completes the dome of the cathedral of Florence.
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1445 - 1510Life of the Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli.
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1453De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) by Nicolaus Copernicus is published.
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c. 1469 - 1536Life of the Renaissance scholar Desiderius Erasmus.
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1471 - 1528Life of the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer.
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1475 - 1564Life of the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo.
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1480 - 1484The Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli produces his painting the Birth of Venus.
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c. 1482The Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli produces his Primavera painting.
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1483 - 1520Life of the Italian Renaissance artist and architect Raphael.
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c. 1492Leonardo da Vinci completes his 'Vitruvian Man' sketch.
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1497 - 1500The Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo works on his masterpiece the Pieta.
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c. 1498Leonardo da Vinci completes his wall mural 'The Last Supper' in Milan's Sante Maria delle Grazie.
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1500 - 1571Life of the Italian Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini.
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c. 1503 - c. 1506Leonardo da Vinci completes his painting the 'Mona Lisa'.
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1504The Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo completes his masterpiece the statue of David.
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c. 1504The Italian Renaissance artist Raphael completes his The Marriage of the Virgin.
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1508 - 1512The Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo works on his painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling in Rome.
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1511The Italian Renaissance artist Raphael completes his frescoes in the Stanze della Segnatura of the Vatican which include The School of Athens.
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1516The Dutch Renaissance scholar Desiderius Erasmus publishes his Latin and Greek translation of the New Testament (Novum instrumentum).
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1517Leonardo da Vinci moves to France to work for Francis I of France.
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1537 - 1551The Italian Renaissance architect Sebastiano Serlio writes what would become known as his Seven Books on Architecture.
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1544The Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo begins his redesign of the Capitoline Hill in Rome.
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1570The Four Books of Architecture by Andrea Palladio is published.
