Timeline
1430–1432....................................... Donatello models David in Florence,
probably commissioned by the Medici.
c. 1434 ............................................. Arnol¿ ni Wedding Portrait by
Jan van Eyck.
1435................................................. Leon Battista Alberta publishes On
Painting, a treatise that includes the
¿ rst description of the method of
linear perspective.
c. 1435 ............................................. Completion of Rogier van der
Weyden’s Deposition.
1452–1459....................................... Painting of the Legend of the True
Cross, in Arezzo, fresco cycle by Piero
della Francesca.
1453................................................. End of the Hundred Years’ War.
1469................................................. Lorenzo de’Medici (“the Magni¿ cent”)
becomes ruler of Florence and one
of the greatest cultural patrons of
the Renaissance.
1474................................................. Mantegna completes the camera picta,
“painted room,” in the Gonzaga Ducal
Palace in Mantua.
1478................................................. The Spanish Inquisition established.
1482................................................. The Birth of Venus by Botticelli.
c. 1495–1498 ................................... The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci.
c. 1495–1500 ................................... Lamentation by Botticelli.
1497–1498....................................... Trial and execution of the Dominican
friar Savonarola, who had preached
against the excessive materialism of the
Medici and Florentine society.
c. 1498 ............................................. Albrecht Dürer’s woodcut Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse.