Renaissance Timeline

• 1377 - 1446
  Life of the Italian Renaissance architect and sculptor Filippo Brunelleschi.
• c. 1386 - 1466
  The life of the Italian Renaissance artist Donatello.
• 1420 - 1450
  The Italian Renaissance artist Donatello sculpts his bronze David in Florence.
• 1425 - 1452
  The Italian Renaissance sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti works on his second set of doors, the 'Gates of Paradise', for the Baptistery of Florence's Cathedral.
• c. 1431 - 1506
  Life of the Italian Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna.
• 1432
  The Ghent Altarpiece is completed by the Netherlandish Renaissance artists Jan van Eyck and Hubert van Eyck.
• 1436
  The Italian Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi completes the dome of the cathedral of Florence.
• 1445 - 1510
  Life of the Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli.
• 1453
  De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) by Nicolaus Copernicus is published.
• c. 1469 - 1536
  Life of the Renaissance scholar Desiderius Erasmus.
• 1471 - 1528
  Life of the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer.
• 1475 - 1564
  Life of the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo.
• 1480 - 1484
  The Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli produces his painting the Birth of Venus.
• c. 1482
  The Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli produces his Primavera painting.
• 1483 - 1520
  Life of the Italian Renaissance artist and architect Raphael.
• c. 1492
  Leonardo da Vinci completes his 'Vitruvian Man' sketch.
• 1497 - 1500
  The Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo works on his masterpiece the Pieta.
• c. 1498
  Leonardo da Vinci completes his wall mural 'The Last Supper' in Milan's Sante Maria delle Grazie.
• 1500 - 1571
  Life of the Italian Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini.
• c. 1503 - c. 1506
  Leonardo da Vinci completes his painting the 'Mona Lisa'.
• 1504
  The Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo completes his masterpiece the statue of David.
• c. 1504
  The Italian Renaissance artist Raphael completes his The Marriage of the Virgin.
• 1508 - 1512
  The Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo works on his painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling in Rome.
• 1511
  The Italian Renaissance artist Raphael completes his frescoes in the Stanze della Segnatura of the Vatican which include The School of Athens.
• 1516
  The Dutch Renaissance scholar Desiderius Erasmus publishes his Latin and Greek translation of the New Testament (Novum instrumentum).
• 1517
  Leonardo da Vinci moves to France to work for Francis I of France.
• 1537 - 1551
  The Italian Renaissance architect Sebastiano Serlio writes what would become known as his Seven Books on Architecture.
• 1544
  The Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo begins his redesign of the Capitoline Hill in Rome.
• 1570
  The Four Books of Architecture by Andrea Palladio is published.