Renaissance
Timeline.
In
Italy
In
the North
|
| 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 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 |
|
Donatello dies
|
1466 |
|
1466 |
Birth of Quentin Matsys |
| Death
of Fra Filippo Lippi |
1469 |
Lorenzo de
Medici
takes power in Florence. |
1470 |
Birth of Gruenwald
|
|
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 |
|
1528 |
Death of Durer and of
Gruenwald |
| Death
of Correggio |
1534 |
1550.
The Lives of the Artists by Vasari
is published. |
1543 |
Death of Hans
Holbein |
| Death
of Michelangelo |
1564 |
|
|
|
| Death of Titian |
1576 |
1571
Birth of Caravaggio |
|
|
| Death of Veronese |
1588 |
|
|
|
| Death
of Tintoretto |
1594 |
|
1594 |
Birth of Nicolas Poussin |
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