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Europe is ravaged for the first time by Black Death.
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Son of Giovanni. Drove the Medici bank to its peak as the greatest bank in Europe, in significant part by engineering the position of the first ever monopoly banker to the church. Built the Palazzo Medici and San Marco monastery and church. Note that when there is a reference below to the later Cosimo I (1519 - 1574) coming from the "cadet branch" of the family, this means that he was a descendant of Cosimo the Elder's brother Lorenzo the Elder.
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The cultural and artistic events of 15th century Italy are collectively referred to as the Quattrocento (from the Italian for the number 400, or from "millequattrocento," 1400). Quattrocento encompasses the artistic styles of the late Middle Ages (most notably International Gothic) and the early Renaissance.
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Giovanni Santi, Raphael's father; Christ supported by two angels, c.1490
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Henry V and the deadly English longbow men beat the French in what turned out to be a "dead cat bounce" towards the end of the Hundred Years' War.
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The Ospedale degli Innocenti ('Hospital of the Innocents') is a historical building in Florence, central Italy. Designed by Filippo Brunelleschi,[1][2] who received the commission in 1419, it was originally a children's orphanage. It is regarded as a notable example of early Italian Renaissance architecture. The hospital, which features a nine bay loggia facing the Piazza SS. Annunziata, was built and managed by the "Arte della Seta" or Silk
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Originally trained as a goldsmith, Verrocchio expanded into sculpture and painting and must have been a most effective workshop entrepeneur and teacher - his students included Leonardo, Botticelli, Ghirlandaio and Perugino. Apart from teaching, he spent most of his life working on commissions for the Medicis.
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This shows David standing on the top of the head of Goliath, and was made by Donatello, was the first free-standing nude sculpture since Classical Antiquity.
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Sant'Agostino, Rome, Giacomo di Pietrasanta.
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Michelangelo's Pietà, a depiction of the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Mary after the Crucifixion, was carved in 1499, when the sculptor was 24 years old.
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Is in Rome, by Bramante. This small temple marks the place where St Peter was put to death.
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Is a portrait by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. It is a painting in oil on a poplar panel, completed circa 1503–1519.
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The Statue of David, completed by Michelangelo in 1504, is one of the most renowned works of the Renaissance.
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The Dome of St Peter's Basilica, Rome.
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Sacred and Profane Love (also called Venus and the Bride) is an oil painting by Titian, painted around 1513–1514. The painting was commissioned by Niccolò Aurelio. It supposedly depicts the bride dressed in white, sitting beside Cupid and being assisted by Venus in person.
