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He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance. That Giotto painted the Arena Chapel and that he was chosen by the Comune of Florence in 1334 to design the new campanile of the Florence Cathedral.
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Black Death ravages Europe for the first time.
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The Duomo, as it is ordinarily called, was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi
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It is a panel painting by the Flemish artist Rogier van der Weyden created c. 1435.
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Ghiberti wins the competition for the Florence Baptistry doors
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the first major book printed with a movable type printing press, outside of the Korean Jikji, which predates it by a comfortable margin, marking the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution" and the age of the printed book.
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The church was begun in 1462 according to designs by Leon Battista Alberti on a site occupied by a Benedictine monastery. However, was finished only 328 years later.
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Mural painting in Milan created by Leonardo da Vinci for his patron Duke Ludovico Sforza and his duchess Beatrice d'Este.
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Made by Michelangelo, this sculpture is in San Peter Basilica.
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San Pietro in Montorio is a church in Rome, Italy, which includes in its courtyard The Tempietto (a small commemorative martyrium) built by Donato Bramante.
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Michelangelo: David
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Mona Lisa: Leonardo Da Vinci.
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The Parnassus is a painting by the Italian renaissance artist Raphael.
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the Reformation created a political and religious culture in northern Europe that was especially hostile to the spirit of free inquiry and scholarship that characterized Humanism.Because the Protestant Reformation owed so much to the developments of Humanism and the work done by humanists to change how people thought.
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Elizabeth I succeeds to the throne in England: start of the English “Golden Age”.
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Death of Michelangelo
