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1341 Petrarch is Poet Laureate in Rome 1411 Donatello carves first Renaissance sculpture 1430 Work begins on Pazzi Chapel 1480 Birth of Venus and Spring Botticelli paints the Birth of Venus and Spring 1501 Michelangelo carves David 1502 Durer uses watercolours to paint realistic hare 1508 Michelangelo tackles Sistine ceiling 1509 Raphael paints Pope's apartment 1510 Erasmus and Humanism 1526 Holbein in Chelsea Holbein pays his first visit to England

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The Renaissance View the work of Renaissance era artists

Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo was an extraordinary Renaissance thinker.

Italian Renaissance Timeline This is an interactive timeline with most of the important events of the era.

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Kelly, Nigel The Renaissance

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