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Birth of Giotto.	1267	1265. Birth of Dante.
Death of Giotto	1337	The 14th century The Trecento.	1366	Birth of Hubert van Eyck
Birth of Brunelleschi	1377	1348. The Black Death sweaps through Europe. Between 25% and 50% of the population fall victim to the plague.	1375	Birth of Robert Campin
Birth of Lorenzo Ghiberti	1378
Birth of Donatello	1386	1389. Birth of Cosimo de' Medici.	1385	Birth of Jan Van Eyck
Birth of Paolo Uccello and Fra Angelico (born 1395/1400)?	1397		1399	Birth of Rogier van der Weyden
Birth of Masaccio	1401	The 15th century **The Quattrocento.**
Fra Filippo Lippi	1406
Birth of Piero della Francesca	1410/1420	1420-1436. Brunelleschi completes the Dome of Florence Cathedral.	1420	Birth of Jean Fouquet
Death of Masaccio aged 27	1428		1426	Death of Hubert van Eyck
Birth of Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini	1431	30 May, Joan of Arc is burned at the stake.	1430	Birth of Hans Memling
Birth of Andrea del Verrocchio	1435		1440	Birth of Hugo van der Goes Death of Jan Van Eyck
Brunelleschi dies on April 15th. Birth of Sandro Botticelli.	1446	1449. Birth of Lorenzo de Medici.	1444	Death of Robert Campin
Birth of Domenico Ghirlandaio	1449
Birth of Leonardo da Vinci	1452	Ghiberti completes The gates of paradise.	1450	Birth of Hieronymus Bosch
Death of Ghiberti and Fra Angelico	1455	The Wars of the Roses. The English civil war.	1460	Birth of Gerard David
Birth of Filippino Lippi	1457/8
Donatello dies	1466		1466	Birth of Quentin Matsys
Death of Fra Filippo Lippi	1469	Lorenzo de Medici takes power in Florence.	1470	Birth of Grunewald
Death of Uccello Birth of Michelangelo Buonarroti	1475		1471	Birth of Albrecht Durer
Birth of Raphael Sanzio	1483		1481	Death of Jean Fouquet
Birth of Giorgione and of Titian (1485-1490)	1485	Botticelli paints The Birth of Venus.	1483	Death of van der Goes
Death of Andrea del Verrocchio	1488
Birth of Correggio	1489		1494	Death of Hans Memling
Death of Piero della Francesca	1492	October 12th, Columbus discovers America.	1497	Birth of Hans Holbein the Younger
Death of Andrea Mantegna	1506	The sixteenth century **The Cinquecento.**
Death of Sandro Botticelli and Giorgione	1510	1508. Michelangelo begins work in the Sistine Chapel.
Death of Giovanni Bellini	1516		1516	Death of Hieronymus Bosch
Birth of Tintoretto	1518	Raphael paints his portrait of Leo X. (Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici)
Death of Leonardo da Vinci	1519
Death of Raphael aged 37	1520		1523	Death of Gerard David
Birth of Veronese	1528	1527. The sack of Rome by German mercanary troops.	1528	Death of Durer and of Grunewald
Death of Correggio	1534	1550. The Lives of the Artists by Vasari is published.	1543	Death of Hans Holbein
Death of Michelangelo	1564
Birth of Caravaggio	1571
Death of Titian	1576		1577	Birth of Peter Paul Rubens
Death of Veronese	1588
Death of Tintoretto	1594	Henry IV of Navarre is crowned King of France.	1594	Birth of Nicolas Poussin

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