 Text search
 Related images
 HistoryWorld
 Link
 Map
Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms. |
|  |
| | | | | | | |
|
| c. 1460 |
| | | Oil paints, long familiar in the Netherlands, begin to be adopted in Italy in place of tempera | |
| |
|
| c. 1460 |
| | | Andrea Mantegna combines an interest in classical detail and recently discovered perspective | |
| |
|
| c. 1465 |
| | | The Sicilian artist Antonello da Messina adopts the Flemish technique of painting in oils | |
| |
|
| c. 1470 |
| | | Sandro Botticelli is established as one of the leading painters of Florence, working in particular for the Medici | |
| |
|
| 1472 |
| | | Leonardo da Vinci joins the painters' guild in Florence, probably after training with Verrocchio | |
| |
|
| c. 1475 |
| | | Giovanni Bellini becomes the key figure in the development of the Renaissance style in Venice | |
| |
|
| c. 1480 |
| | | Botticelli paints the Birth of Venus and Spring for the villa of a Medici cousin of Lorenzo the Magnificent | |
| |
|
| c. 1489 |
| | | Leonardo da Vinci begins an unprecedented series of detailed anatomical drawings, based on corpses dissected in Rome | |
| |
|
| c. 1505 |
| | | Leonardo captures the enigmatic smile of Lisa Gherardini, known now as the Mona Lisa | |
| |
|
| 1508 |
| | | Michelangelo begins work in Rome on the ceiling of the Sistine chapel | |
|  | Study for The Creation of Adam Michelangelo, c.1508
British Museum
|
|
|
| | | | | |
| |