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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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