10 events with tag "Renaissance"
804
ID: 4097
Alcuin's impact assessed - saved classical learning, created educational system for medieval Europe
ID: 4097
1401
ID: 5161
Competition for Florence Baptistery doors - Ghiberti defeats Brunelleschi, beginning of Renaissance art
ID: 5161
1417
ID: 29
Poggio Bracciolini discovers Lucretius's 'De Rerum Natura' - Epicurean materialism recovered
ID: 29
1453
ID: 5131
Donatello completes bronze David for Medici palace - first free-standing nude sculpture since antiquity
ID: 5131
1458
ID: 5556
Matthias Corvinus becomes king, creates Europe's second largest library and professional Black Army
ID: 5556
1469
ID: 5134
Lorenzo the Magnificent becomes ruler of Florence at age 20 - begins golden age of Renaissance
ID: 5134
1482
ID: 5136
Botticelli paints Birth of Venus for Medici villa - Neo-Platonic allegory becomes icon of Renaissance
ID: 5136
1486
ID: 30
Pico della Mirandola's 'Oration on Dignity of Man' - man as self-creator
ID: 30
1490
ID: 107
Leonardo da Vinci designs flying machines, tanks, and submarines - though unbuildable, shows mechanical imagination unleashed
ID: 107
1550
ID: 5165
Vasari publishes Lives of the Artists in Florence - creates concept of Renaissance, biography as art history
ID: 5165