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Period: Jan 1, 1200 to
Italian Renaissance
Humanism was started: against medieval mindset; all about self accomplishment and achievements for yourself. Humanism affected everything, like art, literature, people. The medical family were a powerful family during the renaiisance who patronized art to become well known. Was "golden age" of Italy. -
Jan 1, 1265
Dante Alighieri's Birth
Dante was born in Florence, Italy. The exact date of birth is unknown, although it is generally believed to be around 1265. This can be deduced from autobiographic allusions in La Divina Commedia. Its first section, the Inferno, begins, "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita" ("Halfway through the journey of our life"), implying that Dante was around 35 years old, since the average lifespan according to the Bible -
Dec 31, 1321
Dante Alighieri's Death
In August 1321, while traveling in Venice, Dante contracted a fever (possibly malaria, a common ailment in medieval Italy). He returned to Ravenna and died there in September 1321. He was buried in the Church of San Pier Maggiore in Ravenna. -
Jan 1, 1347
The Bubonic Plague Begins
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Jan 1, 1350
Early Renaissance
The Early Renaissance generally refers to the Renaissance art produced in the 15th century (1400s). Florence, a city in Italy, was the world center for artistic thinking because of its political situation. Rather than most European states, Florence was a Republic, a form of governance that respected artists as great men instead of mere puppets of those in power. -
Jan 21, 1352
The Bubonic Plague Ends
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Jan 1, 1386
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi's Birth
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Jan 1, 1445
Sandro Botticelli's Birth
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Apr 15, 1452
Leonardo da Vinci's Birth
Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452 at the third hour of the night" in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci, in the lower valley of the Arno River in the territory of the Medici-ruled Republic of Florence. He was the son of the wealthy Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci he was a Florentine legal notary, and Caterina who was a peasant. -
Dec 13, 1466
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi's Death
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Mar 6, 1475
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni's Birth
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Dec 31, 1479
Early Renaissance Ends
The end of the Early Renaissance in Italian art is marked, like its beginning, by a particular commission that drew artists together, this time in cooperation rather than competition. In the sixteen large paintings, the artists, although each working in his individual style, agreed on principals of format, and utilised the techniques of lighting, linear and atmospheric perspective, anatomy, foreshortening and characterisation that had been carried to a high point in the large Florentine studios. -
Jan 1, 1490
High Renaissance Begins
After the Early Renaissance, the new styles and ways of thinking shifted into high gear. Historically, this was the time of the Medici's rule over Florence, the time of Dante's writings, a time of general wealth and enlightenment. -
Jan 1, 1500
Late Renaissance Begins
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May 17, 1510
Sandro Botticelli's Death
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May 2, 1519
Leonardo da Vinci's Death
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Dec 31, 1527
High Renaissance Ends
ended in 1527 with the sacking of Rome by the troops of Charles V. This term was first used in German (Hochrenaissance) in the early nineteenth century, and has its origins in the "High Style" of painting and sculpture described by Johann Joachim Winckelmann. Over the last twenty years, use of the term has been frequently criticized by academic art historians for oversimplifying artistic developments, ignoring historical context, and focusing only on a few iconic works. -
Jan 1, 1564
William Shakespeare's Birth
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Feb 18, 1564
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni's Death
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Late Renaissance Ends
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William Shakespeare's Death
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The First Opera House
The first public opera house was the Teatro San Cassiano in Venice, Italy, which opened in 1637. Italy, where opera has been popular through the centuries among ordinary people as well as wealthy patrons, still has a large number of opera houses.