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  Italian Renaissance
 Scrovegni employs Giotto c. 1305
 
 Dante begins Divine Comedy c. 1307
 
 Siena employs Duccio 1308
 
 Florence and banking c. 1320
 
 Petrarch sees Laura in church 1327
 
 Petrarch as poet laureate in Rome 1341
 
 Black Death devastates Europe 1348
 
 Condottieri corner war market c. 1350
 
 Humanism a central theme of Renaissance c. 1350
 
 Boccaccio inspired by Petrarch 1350
 
 Pope returns to Rome 1377
 
 Donatello employed on Orsanmichele 1411 Donatello, St George
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 Brunelleschi studies Roman ruins 1415
 
 Brunelleschi wins competition 1418 Florence, the cathedral dome
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 Brancacci employs Masaccio 1423
 
 Work begins on Pazzi chapel 1430
 
 Cosimo arrested 1433
 
 Alberti explains perspective 1436
 
 Greek Orthodox attend council in Florence 1439
 
 Fra Angelico in San Marco c. 1443
 
 Piero in San Sepolcro c. 1450 Piero della Francesca Baptism of Christ (detail)
National Gallery, London
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 Sforza rules Milan 1450
 
 Oil paint moves south c. 1460
 
 Platonic Academy in Florence 1462
 
 Cosimo is father of fatherland 1464
 
 Venetian printing rivals German 1470
 
 Sixtus founds chapel and choir 1471
 
 Giovanni Bellini in Venice c. 1475
 
 Murder in the cathedral in Florence 1478
 
 Leonardo designs forts c. 1480
 
 Birth of Venus and Spring c. 1480
 
 Leonardo dissects corpses c. 1489
 
 Savonarola attacks morals of the mighty 1491
 
 Pope has four illegitimate children 1492
 
 Roman and italic in Venice c. 1495
 
 Savonarola's bonfire of vanities 1497
 
Leonardo draws a cartoon in preparation for a painting c. 1499 Leonardo Virgin and Child with St Anne (detail)
National Gallery, London
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 Michelangelo's a Pietà for St Peter's 1499 Pietà Michelangelo
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 Lock gates by Leonardo c. 1500
 
 Faenza earthenware c. 1500
 
 Leonardo sheds light on fossils c. 1500
 
Bellini paints the newly elected doge c. 1501 Bellini Doge Leonardo Loredan (detail)
National Gallery, London
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