Renissance Review

  • Jan 1, 1305

    Giotto paints fresco Mourning of Christ (lamentation)

  • Jan 1, 1321

    Dante writes Divine Comedy

  • Jan 1, 1336

    Ghiberti creates Gates of Paradise

  • Jan 1, 1384

    Brunelleschi creates Duomo (Dome of Florence)

  • Jan 1, 1417

    Donatello creates statue of St. George

  • Jan 1, 1427

    Massaccio paints Expulsion

  • Jan 1, 1432

    Boticelli paints La Primavera

  • Jan 1, 1434

    Jan Van Eyck paints the Arnolfini Portrait

  • Jan 1, 1440

    Donatello sculpts first nude statue David

  • Jan 1, 1450

    Gutenberg prints Bible using movable type (printing press)

  • Jan 1, 1483

    Chaucer writes Canterbury Tales

  • Jan 1, 1500

    Italian Renaissance Begins

  • Jan 1, 1503

    Da Vinci paints Mona Lisa

  • Jan 1, 1510

    Raphael paints School of Athens

  • Jan 1, 1512

    Michelangelo paints ceiling of Sistine Chapel

  • Jan 1, 1513

    Machiavelli writes The Prince