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| c. 1400 |
| | | Majolica, or tin-glazed earthenware, reaches Italy from Majorca and thus gets its name | |
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| 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
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| 1423 |
| | | Masaccio paints some of the frescoes in the chapel of a Florentine silk merchant, Felice Brancacci, in Santa Maria del Carmine | |
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| 1436 |
| | | Perspective fascinates Italian Renaissance painters after the publication of Alberti's treatise on the subject, De Pictura | |
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| c. 1443 |
| | | The Dominican convent of San Marco, in Florence, is provided with a serenely beautiful series of frescoes by Fra Angelico and his assistants | |
|  | Fresco in San Marco Monastery
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| c. 1450 |
| | | Piero della Francesca paints masterpieces in his small home town of San Sepolcro | |
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| c. 1450 |
| | | Paolo Uccello is interested in the laws of perspective, in works such as The Battle of San Romano | |
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| c. 1460 |
| | | Oil paints, long familiar in the Netherlands, begin to be adopted in Italy in place of tempera | |
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| c. 1460 |
| | | Andrea Mantegna combines an interest in classical detail and recently discovered perspective | |
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| c. 1465 |
| | | The Sicilian artist Antonello da Messina adopts the Flemish technique of painting in oils | |
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