Ludovico il Moro becomes the ruler of Milan
1480
Cosimo de Medici
1389-1469
Titian
1477-1576
Benvenuto Cellini
1500-1571
Giovanni Boccaccio
1313-1375
Cesare Borgia
1476-1507
Lorenzo de Medici becomes the ruler of Florence
1469
Pope Alexander VI
R. 1492-1503 member of the Spanish Borgia family
Tintoretto paints The Miracle of Saint Mark
1548
Dante Alighieri
1265-1321
Savonarola takes power in Florence
1494
Leonardo da Vinci paints The Last Supper
C. 1495-1498
Lorenzo Ghiberti
1378-1455
Tintoretto
1518-1594
Sandro Botticelli
1444-1510
Donatello’s Gattamelata
1445-1450
Leonardo da Vinci
1452-1519
Michelangelo paints The Last Judgement behind the altar in the Sistine Chapel
1534-1541
Lorenzo Valla
1405-1457
Masaccio
1401-1428
Benvenuto Cellini writes his Autobiography
1558-1562
Masaccio paints The Holy Trinity
1425
Francesco Sforza
1401-1466
Gian Galeazzo Visconti
C. 1351-1402
Giovanni Bellini paints St. Francis in Ecstacy
C. 1485
Giotto begins work on his frescoes in the Arena chapel in Padua
C. 1304
Sandro Botticelli paints The Birth of Venus
C. 1480
Niccolo Machiavelli
1469-1527
Pope Sixtus IV
R. 1471-1484
Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince
1513
Giovanni di Bicci de Medici
1360-1429
Pope Pius II
R. 1458-1464 earlier achieved note as a humanist scholar under the latinized name Aeneas Silvius
Gian Galeazzo Visconti becomes the ruler of Milan
1378
Pope Julius II
R. 1503-1513 the warrior pope
Donatello’s bronze David
C. 1430-1432
Pope Nicholas V
R. 1447-1455 established Vatican Library
Lorenzo de Medici
1449-1492
Raphael
1483-1520
Raphael paints The School of Athens
1510-1511
Titian paints the altarpiece of The Assumption of the Virgin
1518
Giorgione paints the Tempesta
C. 1505
Andrea Palladio
1508-1580
Giovanni Boccaccio writes the Decameron
1348-1353
Michelangelo
1475-1564
Michelangelo paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
1508-1512
Filipino Brunelleschi
1377-1446
Cosimo de Medici becomes the ruler of Florence
1434
Giotto
C. 1266-1337
Pope Eugenius IV
R. 1431-1447
Baldassare Castiglione writes The Book of the Courtier
1518
Donatello
C. 1386-1466
Giovanni Bellini
C. 1430-1516
Petrarch
1304-1374
Francesco Sforza becomes the ruler of Milan
1450
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
C. 1502
Giorgione
1478-1510
Michelangelo completes his statue of David
1501-1505
Baldassare Castiglione
1478-1529
Donate Bramante
1444-1514
Savonarola
1452-1498
Giorgio Vasari
1511-1562