Historical Events 1400 Chaucer dies. Jean Froissart finishes Chronicles. 1408 Donatello sculpts David. 1412 Bruneileschi develops rules of perspective. 1415 Henry V defeats French at Agincourt. Jan Hus
burned at stake. 1418 End of Great Schism. 1420 Thomas a Kempis writes Imitation of Christ. 1431 Joan of Arc burned at the stake. 1440 Eton founded. 1450 Francesco Sforza becomes duke of Milan. 1452 Ghiberti completes Gates of Paradise. 1453 Gutenberg prints forty–two–line Bible. 1455 War of Roses begins. 1456 Uccello paints The Battle of San Romano. 1456 Francois Villon writes Le Petit Testament. 1460 Oxford confers first Doctor of Music degree. 1469 Lorenzo de' Medici becomes ruler of Florence. 1477 Botticelli paints La Primavera. 1478 Ferdinand and Isabella institute Spanish Inquisition. 1483 Richard III accused of murdering his nephews. 1485 Henry VII starts Tudor dynasty. 1492 Moors expelled. Kingdom of Spain unified. Columbus in New World. 1495 Leonardo da Vinci paints The Last Supper. 1498 Savanarola burned at the stake. 1498 Michelangelo sculpts Pieta.
Literature
Sebastian Brant (1457–1521)
Lorenzo de Medici (1449–1492)
Thomas a Kempis (1380–1471)
Sir Thomas Malory (d.1471)
Francois Villon (1431–ca.1463)
Music
Josquin Desprez (ca.1440–1521)
Johannes Ockeghem (ca.1430–1495)
Fine Arts
Antonello da Messina (ca.1430–1479)
Leone Battista Albert! (1404–1472)
Fra Angelico (1400–1455)
Jacopo Bellini (ca.1400–1470)
Gentile Bellini (1429–1507)
Giovanni Bellini (1430–1516)
Hieronymus Bosch (ca.1450–1516)
Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510)
Donato Bramante (1444–1514)
Filippo Bruneileschi (1377–1446)
Robert Campin (1378–1444)
Andrea del Castagno (1419–1459)
Jacopo della Quercia (1374–1438)
Luca della Robbia (1399–1482)
Piero della Francesca (ca.1420–1492)
Domenico Veneziano (1400–1461)
Donatello (1386–1466)
Albrecht Durer (1471–1528)
Jan van Eyck (ca.1390–1441)
Jean Fouquet (ca.1420–ca. 1480)
Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378–1455)
Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449–1494)
Hugo van der Goes (d.1482)
Benozzo Gozzoli (ca.1421–1497)
Fra Filippo Lippi (1406–1469)
Filippino Lippi (ca.1457–1504)
Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506)
Masaccio (Tommaso Guida) (1401–1428)
Hans Memling (1435–1494)
Perugino (1445–1523)
Bernardo Pintorriccho (ca.1454–1513)
Sebastiano del Prombo (ca.1485–1547)
Antonio Pisanello (1395–1455)
Antonio Pollaiuolo (1429–1498)
Antonio Rossellino (1427–1479)
Giuliano da Sangallo (1443–1516)
Sassetta (1399–1450)
Martin Schongauer (1430–1491)
Luca Signorelli (ca.1441–1523)
Paolo Uccello (1397–1475)
Andrea del Verrocchio (1435–1488)
Roger van der Weyden (1399–1464)
Graphic Arts
William Caxton (ca.1421–1491)
Pasquier Bonhomme (fl.1476)
Jean Dupre (fl.1481–1504)
Albrecht Durer (1471–1528)
Johann Fust (ca.1400–1466)
Francesco Griffo (ca.1450–1518)
Johann Gutenberg (ca.1397–1468)
Nicholas Jenson (1420–1480)
Anton Koberger (ca.1445–1513)
Aldus Manutius (1450–1515)
Arnold Pannartz (d.1476)
Albrecht Pfister (fl.1461)
Heinrich Quentell (d.1501)
Peter Schoeffer (ca.1425–1502)
Conrad Sweynheim (d.1477)
Anton Verard (fl.1486)
Wynkyn de Worde (fl.1490)
Gunther Zainer (fl. 1468–1478)
