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Renaissance

  • Sep 25, 1410

    Four Crowned Saints

    Four Crowned Saints
    By Nanni di Banco, he started to built the sculpture in 1410 and finished it in 1412. It is located in the Orsanmichele Church in Florence, Italy.
  • Sep 25, 1412

    St. John the Baptist

    St. John the Baptist
    Located in Orsanmichele in Florence, Italy. It is a bronze sculpture, it is 255 cm tall. It was finished in 1416
  • Oct 25, 1415

    Battle of Againcourt

    Battle of Againcourt
    It was a major English victory against a numerically superior French army in the Hundred Years' War.
  • Sep 25, 1428

    Primavera

    Primavera
    It is a tempera panel painting by Italian renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli.
  • Sep 25, 1429

    Pazzi Chapel

    Pazzi Chapel
    In 1429 Filippo Brunelleschi started the Pazzi Chapel and finished it in 1461. The Pazzi Chapel is located in Florence, Italy. It is a small domed chapel, considered to be one of the masterpieces of renaissance architecture.
  • Sep 25, 1440

    Printing Press Invented

    Printing Press Invented
    The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by the German Johannes Gutenberg around 1440, based on existing screw presses.
  • Period: Apr 15, 1452 to May 2, 1519

    Leonardo da Vinci

    He was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination". He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.
  • Period: Mar 6, 1475 to Feb 18, 1564

    Michelangelo

    Was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci.
  • Sep 25, 1489

    Palazzo Strozzi

    Palazzo Strozzi
    The Palazzo Strozzi was built by Benedetto da Maiano, and it was started in 1489, and it was finished in 1539 by Simone del Pollaiuolo. It is located in Florence, Italy.
  • Sep 25, 1492

    The end of the Middle Ages

    Lorenzo the Magnificent dies in Florence, Columbus discovers America (almost), and Granada falls, which is why 1492 is regarded by many as symbolically the last year of the Middle Ages! Unrelated to these internationally seismic events, it was also the year that Roderigo de Borgia became Pope Alessandro VI.
  • Sep 25, 1503

    Mona Lisa

    Mona Lisa
    Is a portrait by Leonardo da Vinci. It is a painting in oil on a poplar panel. Leonardo da Vinci finished it in 1519.
  • Sep 25, 1504

    David

    David
    Is a sculpture made by Michelangelo. It is 17 foot tall. It was located in a public square outside of the Palazzo della Signoria, then it was moved to the Accademia Gallery in Florence in 1873, and later replaced at the original location by a replica.
  • Sep 25, 1509

    The School of Athens

    The School of Athens
    Is one of the most famous paintings by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was finished in 1510.
  • Sep 25, 1538

    Piazza del Campidoglio

    Piazza del Campidoglio
    Michelangelo started to built it in 1538 and finished it in 1650, it is located in Rome, Italy. It have a elliptical courtyard with central figure sculpture.
  • Period: Apr 26, 1564 to

    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He was on the literary movement of English Renaissance theatre.