Visual Timeline: Renaissance Art

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1376 CE - 1455 CE: Life of the Italian Renaissance artist Lorenzo Ghiberti.
 
1377 CE - 1446 CE: Life of the Italian Renaissance architect and sculptor Filippo Brunelleschi.
 
1390 CE - 1441 CE: The life of the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Jan van Eyck.
 
1397 CE - 1475 CE: Life of the Italian Renaissance artist Paolo Uccello.
 
 
1415 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Donatello completes his sculpture of Saint George for the Orsanmichele in Florence.
 
1420 CE - 1450 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Donatello sculpts his bronze David in Florence.
 
1420 CE - 1492 CE: Life of the Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca.
 
 
1425 CE - 1452 CE: The Italian Renaissance sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti works on his second set of doors, the 'Gates of Paradise', for the Baptistery of Florence's Cathedral.
 
1430 CE - 1516 CE: Life of the Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni Bellini.
 
1432 CE: The Ghent Altarpiece is completed by the Netherlandish Renaissance artists Jan van Eyck and Hubert van Eyck.
 
1435 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti writes his treatise De pictura (On Painting).
 
1436 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Paolo Uccello completes his equestrian fresco of Sir John Hawkwood.
 
 
1446 CE - 1453 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Donatello creates his bronze panels for the high altar of the Basilica Sant’ Antonio in Padua.
 
1450 CE - 1523 CE: Life of the Italian Renaissance artist Pietro Perugino.
 
1450 CE: The Italian Renaissance sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti writes his Commentaries, a mix of art history and autobiography.
 
1452 CE - 1465 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca produces his cycle of frescoes on the Legend of the True Cross for the San Francesco church, Arezzo.
 
 
1453 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Donatello completes his equestrian statue of Erasmo da Narni, the Gattamelata (‘honeycat’) in Padua.
 
1455 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca produces his painted panel the Flagellation of Christ.
 
1456 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Donatello sculpts his wooden statue of a penitent Mary Magdalene.
 
1464 CE: The Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti writes his treatise on sculpture.
 
 
1465 CE - 1474 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna works on his fresco cycles in the Palazzo Ducale of Mantua.
 
1465 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca produces his fresco the Resurrection of Christ.
 
1470 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca produces his portrait of the Duke of Urbino, Federico da Montefeltro.
 
1471 CE - 1528 CE: Life of the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer.
 
1474 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca writes his treatise On Perspective in Painting.
 
1475 CE - 1564 CE: Life of the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo.
 
1480 CE - 1484 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli produces his painting the Birth of Venus.
 
1480 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni Bellini completes his Ecstasy of Saint Francis painting.
 
1482 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli produces his Primavera painting.
 
1487 CE - 1576 CE: Life of the Italian Renaissance artist Titian.
 
1490 CE - 1492 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli produces his Lamentation over the Dead Christ painting.
 
1492 CE: Leonardo da Vinci completes his 'Vitruvian Man' sketch.
 
1497 CE - 1500 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo works on his masterpiece the Pieta.
 
1497 CE - 1543 CE: Life of the German Renaissance painter Hans Holbein the Younger.
 
 
1498 CE: Leonardo da Vinci completes his wall mural 'The Last Supper' in Milan's Sante Maria delle Grazie.
 
1500 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli produces his Mystic Nativity painting.
 
1500 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni Bellini completes his portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan.
 
1503 CE - 1506 CE: Leonardo da Vinci completes his painting the 'Mona Lisa'.
 
1504 CE: The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer creates his Adam and Eve print.
 
1504 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo completes his masterpiece the statue of David.
 
1504 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Raphael completes his The Marriage of the Virgin.
 
1505 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni Bellini completes his altarpiece for the San Zaccaria church in Venice.
 
1507 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Raphael completes his painting The Entombment of Christ (aka The Deposition).
 
 
1508 CE - 1512 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo works on his painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling in Rome.
 
 
1511 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Raphael completes his frescoes in the Stanze della Segnatura of the Vatican which include The School of Athens.
 
1518 CE - 1594 CE: Life of the Italian Renaissance painter Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti).
 
1520 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo completes his masterpiece statue of Moses for the tomb of Pope Julius II.
 
1525 CE: The German Renaissance painter Hans Holbein the Younger creates his 41-print series the Dance of Death.
 
 
1536 CE: The German Renaissance painter Hans Holbein the Younger becomes the court painter of Henry VIII of England.
 
1545 CE - 1554 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini works on his bronze sculpture of Perseus and Medusa.
 
1548 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Tintoretto produces his celebrated Miracle of Saint Mark Rescuing a Slave painting.
 
 
1564 CE - 1481 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Tintoretto works on his cycle of paintings for Venice’s Scuola Grande di San Rocco.
 
1570 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Tintoretto porduces his Saint George and the Dragon painting.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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