Angel Incarnate: Timeline
- 1476 Leonardo charged with sodomy
- 1482 Botticelli paints La Primavera/Allegory of Spring
- 1482-1483 Leonardo moves to Milan
- 1485 Botticelli paints The Birth of Venus/Nascita di Venere
- 1491 Ludovico Sforza of Milan marries Beatrice d’Este of Ferrara; Leonardo is the wedding planner
- 1492 Death of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence
The Reconquista of Spain and the discovery of the Americas - 1495 Leonardo constructs a mechanical knight (Automa cavaliere)
- 1495-1497 Leonardo creates The Last Supper in Santa Maria delle Grazie
- 1498 Portrait of Girolamo Savonarola by Fra Bartolomeo; Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence later that year
- 1499 French invasion of Milan
Michelangelo's Pietà sculture (below)
- 1500 Leonardo leaves Milan and moves around a lot, including Florence
- 1501-1502 Niccolò Machiavelli marries Marietta Corsini
- 1502 Albrecht Dürer draws Dame Fortune
- 1502-1506 Leonardo serves as a military engineer for Cesare Borgia
- 1503 Leonardo begins work on Mona Lisa
Controversy over Michelangelo's statue David - 1504 Raphael paints The Wedding of the Virgin
- 1508-1512 Michelangelo paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
- 1512 Machiavelli jailed and tortured
Michelangelo's Scherzo, or the Torments of the Flesh - 1512-1513 Raphael paints Sistine Madonna/Madonna di San Sisto (below)
- 1513 Machiavelli writes The Prince; it circulates unofficially for years
- 1513-1516 Leonardo paints Angel Incarnate and St. John the Baptist
- 1516 Leonardo moves to France
- 1517 Martin Luther and beginning of the Reformation
- 1518 Machiavelli publishes Mandragola (Mandrake)
- 1519 Leonardo dies, aged 67, in Amboise
- 1525 Giacomo Salai killed in a duel in Milan
- 1532 Rabelais' first part of Gargantua and Pantagruel is published
- 1532-34 Michelangelo's The Genius of Victory sculpture
- 1553 Rabelais dies in Paris
- 1564 Michelangelo dies in Rome aged 88