-
The rebirth of culture that led to the modern era.
-
Dutch painter Jan ven Eyck creates a paint that mixes pigments with linseed oil instead of egg, which makes it take longer to dry.
-
Filippo Brunelleschi invents a pulley machine that helps masons lift stone much higher.
-
Filippo designs a dome for the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore. It is the largest domed structure since the Pantheon.
-
In Nuremberg, Germany, traveling on ships becomes easier with the invention of the asrolabe and geometric compass.
-
This allowed ironworkers to make more durable items, by heating the iron to a liquid and pouring it in molds.
-
Italian painter, sculptor, engineer, architect and scientist finishes this mysterious portrait.
-
Durer, a German printmaster, makes woodcuts and engravings of amazing complexity.
-
Michelangelo, from Florence finishes painting the ceiling of this chapel in the Vatican.
-
Georgius Agricola publishes the first large study of metals in Germany.
-
English dramatist and poet, William Shakespeare, writes the play MacBeth.
