Renaissance

  • Ghiberti Bronze Doors
    Jan 1, 1401

    Ghiberti Bronze Doors

    In 1401, Ghiberti Wins the Right to Sculpt the Northern Doors of The Baptistry Ghiberti is commissioned and takes 28 years to sculpt the bronze doors of the Florentine church. The doors remain one of the most valued treasures of the Renaissance
  • Francesco Sforza
    Jan 1, 1450

    Francesco Sforza

    Francesco Sforza takes power in Milan.
  • Ottoman conquest of Constantinople
    Jan 1, 1453

    Ottoman conquest of Constantinople

    many Greek thinkers and works travel westward; end of Hundred Years War: stability returns to north-west Europe.
  • Lorenzo de Medici
    Jan 1, 1469

    Lorenzo de Medici

    Lorenzo de Medici, “The Magnificent”, takes power in Florence; his rule is considered the high point of the Florentine Renaissance.
  • Sant' Andrea
    Jan 1, 1472

    Sant' Andrea

    Built by Leon Battista Alberti who turned his attention to the traditional Latin cross plan and applied a combination of a temple front and a triumphal arch to the facade.
    Alberti not only produced a new facad design but abandoned the nave-and-aisles type of basilica church which Brunelleschi had used, turning instead to a Latin cross form with a barrel-vaulted nave and a series of alternating chapels and supports on either side.
  • Birth of Venus
    Jan 1, 1485

    Birth of Venus

    Alessandro Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus” (1485), the goddess Venus [or Aphrodite as she is known in Greek mythology] emerges from the sea upon a shell in accordance with the myth that explains her birth.
  • Allegory of Spring
    Jan 1, 1492

    Allegory of Spring

    Sandro Botticelli’s . “Allegory of Spring” 1482 the painting is described according to Botticelli, Primavera (1998), "one of the most written about, and most controversial paintings in the world." While most critics agree that the painting, depicting a group of mythological figures in a g
  • Pacioli
    Sep 26, 1494

    Pacioli

    Pacioli: Everything About Arithmetic, Geometry and Proportion.
  • The Pietà
    Sep 26, 1498

    The Pietà

    This famous work of art by Michelangelo Buonarroti, depicts the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Mary after the Crucifixion.
  • David
    Jan 1, 1501

    David

    Because of the nature of the hero that it represented, it soon came to symbolize the defense of civil liberties embodied in the Florentine Republic, an independent city-state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the hegemony of the Medici family. The eyes of David, with a warning glare, were turned towards Rome.
  • The Sistine Madonna
    Jan 1, 1513

    The Sistine Madonna

    was painted by Raphae on an altar in the Benedictine monastery church of San Sisto, the holy Sistine, in Piacenza northern Italy
  • Leonardo da Vinci Dies
    Jan 1, 1519

    Leonardo da Vinci Dies

    Leonardo, perhaps the most remarkable individual of the Renaissance, dies in France, having established himself as a painter, sculptor, engineer, and scientist.
  • Palace of Fontainebleau
    Jan 1, 1528

    Palace of Fontainebleau

    is one of the largest French royal "power houses"
  • Saint Peter's Basilica

    Saint Peter's Basilica

    Saint Peter's Basilica has the largest interior of any Christian church in the world.
  • Don Quixote

    Don Quixote

    Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published. In one such list, Don Quixote was cited as the "best literary work ever written".