Rulers: • Enrique IV, King of Castile and León (1454-1474) • Fernando II, King of Sicily (1468-1516) • Lorenzo I de’ Medici, Signore di Firenze (1469-1492) Births: • Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) • Montefeltro, Guidobaldo da (1472-1508) Art: • Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479): Ritratto d’uomo (c.1472-76)…
Month: December 2012
Madonna Benois (1478-1480)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Madonna Benois 1478–1480 Oil on canvas transferred from panel, 49.5 x 33 cm Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg One of the greatest geniuses of the Renaissance era, Leonardo da Vinci combined the talents of artist and scientist, inventor…
1478
Rulers: • Caterina Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus (1474-1489) • Fernando II, King of Sicily (1468-1516) • Fernando II, King of Castile and León (1475-1504) • Isabel I, Queen of Castile and León (1474-1504) • Lorenzo I de’ Medici, Signore di Firenze (1469-1492) Births:…
Madonna Litta (mid-1490s)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Madonna Litta mid 1490s Tempera on canvas (handed over from panel), 42 x 33 cm Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg This painting would seem to have been produced in Milan, where the artist moved in 1482. It was one…
1491
Rulers: • Fernando II, King of Sicily (1468-1516) • Fernando II, King of Castile and León (1475-1504) • Fernando II, King of Aragón, Majorca, Sardinia and Valencia (1479-1516) • Fernando II, Count of Barcelona (1479-1516) • Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Duke…
1490
Rulers: • Fernando II, King of Sicily (1468-1516) • Fernando II, King of Castile and León (1475-1504) • Fernando II, King of Aragón, Majorca, Sardinia and Valencia (1479-1516) • Fernando II, Count of Barcelona (1479-1516) • Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Duke…
Hadrianus VI (Papa)
1459
Rulers: • Cosimo de’ Medici, Signore di Firenze (1434-1464) • Enrique IV, King of Castile and León (1454-1474) • Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Signore di Rimini (1432-1468) Births: • Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens (1459-1523), Pope Adrian VI (1522-1523) • Lorenzi, Lorenzo de’ (c.1459-1502) • Lorenzo di Credi…
Utrecht (Netherlands)
Births: • Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens (1459-1523), Pope Adrian VI (1522-1523) • Wtenbogaert, Johannes (1557-1644) See also: • Cities | Netherlands
1523
Rulers: • Carlos I, King of Spain (1516-1556) • Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1519-1558) • Federico II Gonzaga, 5th Marquis of Mantua (1519-1530) • François I, King of France (1515-1547) • Hadrianus VI (Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens), Pope (1522-1523) • Henry VIII, King of England (1509-1547) • Henry VIII, Lord of Ireland (1509-1542) Deaths: • Adriaan Florenszoon…