Michelozzo begins the Palazzo Medici
1444 · Event
Cosimo commissions a massive but outwardly plain family palace on the Via Larga, the model for Florentine palazzi.
On these timelines: Renaissance, Italy (post-476 CE), Master, Arts and Thoughts
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- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Michelangelo (1475)
- Niccolò Machiavelli (1469)
- Lorenzo de' Medici (1449)
- Lorenzo de' Medici's rule of Florence (1469)
- Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466)
- Petrarch (1304)
- Raphael (1483)
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- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Martin Luther (1483)
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- Reign of Mehmed II (1451)
- Gutenberg prints the 42-line Bible (1455)