 Text search
 Related images
 HistoryWorld
 Link
 Map
Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms. |
|  |
| | | | | | | |
|
| c. 1400 |
| | | Guilds of singers and song-writers develop in German towns, calling themselves Meistersinger, or master singers | |
| |
|
| c. 1400 |
| | | The final style of medieval painting, common to all Europe, is known as International Gothic because of its slender and elegant figures | |
| |
|
| c. 1400 |
| | | The English mystery cycles are performed by trade guilds, on carts pulled from audience to audience around the city | |
| |
|
| c. 1400 |
| | | Majolica, or tin-glazed earthenware, reaches Italy from Majorca and thus gets its name | |
| |
|
| 1411 |
| | | The linen drapers of Florence commission a statue of St Mark from Donatello, who carves for Orsanmichele the first free-standing Renaissance sculpture | |
|  | Donatello, St George
Fotofile CG
|
|
|
| 1412 |
| | | The three Limburg brothers illustrate for the duke of Berry the Très Riches Heures, one of the masterpieces of International Gothic | |
| |
|
| 1423 |
| | | Masaccio paints some of the frescoes in the chapel of a Florentine silk merchant, Felice Brancacci, in Santa Maria del Carmine | |
| |
|
| c. 1430 |
| | | Robert Campin, also known as the Master of Flémalle, brings to Flemish painting a natural and everyday quality which is entirely new | |
| |
|
| 1432 |
| | | A new altarpiece is installed in the cathedral in Ghent, introducing the powerful realism of Jan van Eyck | |
| |
|
| 1434 |
| | | Giovanni Arnolfini, a merchant from Lucca trading in Bruges, commissions from van Eyck a portrait of himself and his wife | |
| |
|
| | | | | |
| |