Renaissance Timeline By biermanna8601 Period: Jan 1, 1300 to Jan 1, 1600 Renaissance Timespan Jan 1, 1305 Giotto paints fresco Mourning of Christ Jan 1, 1321 Dante writes Divine Comedy Jan 1, 1350 Italian Renaissance Begins Jan 1, 1400 Chaucer finishes writing Canterbury Tales Jan 1, 1417 Donatello creates statue of St. George Jan 1, 1426 Massaccio paints Expulsion Jan 1, 1430 Donatello sculpts first nude statue David Jan 1, 1434 Jan Van Eyck paints the Arnolfini Portrait Jan 1, 1436 Brunelleschi completes Duomo (Dome of Florence) Jan 1, 1452 Ghiberti creates Gates of Paradise Jan 1, 1482 Botticelli paints La Primavera Jan 1, 1505 Machiavelli writes The Prince Jan 1, 1506 Da Vinci paints Mona Lisa Jan 1, 1510 Raphael paints School of Athens Jan 1, 1512 Michelangelo paints ceiling of Sistine Chapel