In his Della Pictura of 1436, Leon Battista Alberti had argued that multi-figure history painting was the noblest form of art, as being the most difficult, which required mastery of all the others, because it was a visual form of history, and because it had the greatest potential to move the viewer.

An Italian translation of De pictura ( Della pittura ) was published in 1436, one year after the original Latin version and addressed Filippo Brunelleschi in the preface.

Guillaume Dufay was a transitional figure in this regard ; he wrote one of the last important motets in the medieval, isorhythmic style, Nuper rosarum flores ( 1436 ), written to commemorate the completion of Filippo Brunelleschi's dome in the Cathedral of Florence.

In 1436 he was given the commission for the monochromatic fresco of Sir John Hawkwood.

Johannes Müller von Königsberg ( 6 June 1436 – 6 July 1476 ), today best known by his Latin toponym Regiomontanus, was a German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, translator, instrument maker and Catholic bishop.

alt = Masolino & Masaccio, Virgin & Child with St. Anne, Uffizi The second work was perhaps Masaccio's first collaboration with the older and already-renowned artist, Masolino da Panicale ( 1383 / 4-c. 1436 ).

Year 1436 ( MCDXXXVI ) was a leap year starting on Sunday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

He was crowned emperor in Rome on 31 May 1433, and after obtaining his demands from the Pope returned to Bohemia, where he was recognized as king in 1436, though his power was little more than nominal.

Founded in 1436 as a monastery village, the city was part of the Principality of Moldavia, which, starting with the 16th century fell under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire.

The Bishop of Urbino arrived in Scotland in December 1436 and apparently a reconciliation between James and the papal legate had taken place by the middle of February 1437 but the events of 21 February when James was assassinated prevented the legate from completing his commission.

Paris was finally recaptured by Charles VII of France in 1436.

In May 1436, a few months after Bedford's death, York was appointed to succeed him as Lieutenant in France.

The Lady Chapel and Bishop Robert's Chapel were added in the 13th Century in the Early English style, and in the 15th century, the choir section was rebuilt in the Perpendicular style, including the fan-vaulting Sherborne is still famous for, the remodelling by William Smyth, under Abbot John Brunyng ( 1415 – 1436 ).

With an imposing tower it was built c. 1436 for the Franscicans of London.

In the centre of the bridge stood the chapel of St Anne ( dedicated in 1436 ): the dedication was attributed to the town chapel by Dr Oliver and it has since been adopted, displacing that to St Mary.

An early wooden bridge over the Looe river was in place by 1411 this burned down and was replaced by the first stone bridge, completed in 1436 and featuring a chapel dedicated to St Anne in the middle ( the current bridge, a seven-arched Victorian bridge, was opened in 1853 ).

In 1436 when Jasper was about five years of age his mother Catherine of Valois once again was expecting another child, however she realised that she was dying from an illness, probably cancer, and sought the help of Bermondsey Abbey to be nursed by the sisters there.

John Howard was the son of Sir Robert Howard ( 1385 – 1436 ) and the former Lady Margaret de Mowbray ( 1388 – 1459 ), eldest daughter of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk ( of the first creation ) ( 1366 – 1399 ) and Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan ( 1366 – 1425 ).

1365 – 1436 ) also started selling astrolabes in his shop in Paris, along with portable sundials and other popular scientific gadgets of the day.

Beginning in 1436, ibn Falah spread his messianic beliefs amongst the less powerful Arab tribes along the area of the present-day border of Iraq and Iran, gaining converts in an attempt to forge a strong tribal alliance.

In 1436 / 37 his name also comes up in court in connection with a broken promise of marriage to a woman from Strasbourg, Ennelin.

The years between 1434 and 1436 are generally considered his high point when he produced works including the Madonna of Chancellor Rolin, Lucca Madonna and Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele.

Eugene tempered Sicut Dudum with another bull ( 15 September 1436 ) issued in response to complaints made by King Edward of Portugal that allowed the Portuguese to conquer any unconverted parts of the Canary Islands.

The truce with England expired in May 1436 but James's perception of the Anglo-French conflict changed following a realignment of the combatants.

In the spring of 1436 Princess Margaret sailed to France and in August Scotland entered the war with James leading a large army to lay siege to the English enclave of Roxburgh Castle.

The Spanish traveller Pedro Tafur, noting it from sea in 1436, remarked " To one who does not know it, the whole coast from Savona to Genoa looks like one continuous city, so well inhabited is it, and so thickly studded with houses ," and today over 80 % of the regional population still lives permanently near to the coast, where all the four major cities above 50, 000 are located: Genoa ( pop.

The octagonal brick domical vault was built between 1420 and 1436, with Ghiberti resigning in 1433.

In context, modernity has been associated with cultural and intellectual movements of 1436 – 1789 and extending to the 1970s or later ( Toulmin 1992, 3 – 5 ).

( to 1436 ) of the definitive form of his Swiss history, which was received with great praise.

The Duomo, as it is ordinarily called, was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi.

Later at Jihlava, on July 5, 1436, the treaty was made with the Hussites, by which the emperor Sigismund was acknowledged king of Bohemia.

As the best-preserved example of an Ancient Roman monumental building, the Pantheon has been enormously influential in Western architecture from at least the Renaissance on ; starting with Brunelleschi's 42-meter dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, completed in 1436.

When constable Arthur de Richemont returned to favor with Charles VII in 1436, Cauchon went as ambassador to the Council of Basel.

Documents indicate that Bernardo assumed a more decisive role at the suburban monastery of Santa Maria alle Campora whose cloister ( 1436 ) challenges that of Michelozzo at San Marco as the first such structure to have been erected in accordance with a Renaissance aesthetic.

Founded in 1456 ( teaching existed since 1436 ), it is one of the oldest universities in Europe, with generations of notable alumni and staff having studied or worked in Greifswald.

Jacqueline's marriage with Frank van Borssele was happy but, in the summer of 1436, it became obvious that she was gravely ill. She died of " consumption " ( presumably tuberculosis ) in Teylingen Castle on 8 October 1436.

* From 1436, Count Rene I ( the good King Rene ) tries to repopulate the Provence, he created the Barony of Grimaud and appealed to Genoa Raphael Garezzio, gentleman, that addresses the peninsula with a fleet of caravels accompanied by sixty Genoese families.

He was named general of the republic in 1436 during a war with Mantua and was elected generalissimo in 1438.

He was succeeded by Alexandru I Aldea, a son of Mircea cel Batran, who would reign until his death from illness in 1436, and with him being replaced by Vlad II Dracul, father to Vlad Tepes.

** The Madonna with Canon van der Paele ( 1436 )

Helped by a Sicilian fleet, Alfonso recaptured Capua and set his base in Gaeta in the February 1436.

Andrew Lo asserts that Zhou Mi meant dominoes when referring to pupai, since the Ming author Lu Rong ( 1436 – 1494 ) explicitly defined pupai as dominoes ( in regards to a story of a suitor who won a maiden's hand by drawing out four winning pupai from a set ).

In a similar way, the nationes were segregated by the Knights Hospitaller of Jerusalem, who maintained at Rhodes the hostels from which they took their name " where foreigners eat and have their places of meeting, each nation apart from the others, and a Knight has charge of each one of these hostels, and provides for the necessities of the inmates according to their religion ", as the Spanish traveller Pedro Tafur noted in 1436.

Some setbacks occurred: in 1436 the Canaries were officially recognized as Castilian by the Pope ; earlier they were recognized as Portuguese.

In August 1436, James failed humiliatingly in his siege of Roxburgh Castle and then faced an ineffective attempt by Sir Robert Graham to arrest him at a general council.

Oldest known attestation of the " children of the dragon " list is found in the Shuyuan Zaji ( 椒园杂记, Miscellaneous records from the bean garden ) by Lu Rong ( 1436 – 1494 ); however, he noted that the list enumerates mere synonyms of various antiques, not children of a dragon.

After the complete destruction of the village Eidum by a storm surge on 1 November 1436, the survivors founded a new village northeast of their old home: Westerland.

* Elizabeth Percy ( c. 1395 – 26 October 1436 ), who married firstly John Clifford, 7th Baron de Clifford, slain at the Siege of Meaux on 13 March 1422, by whom she had issue, and secondly Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland ( d. 3 November 1484 ), by whom she had a son, Sir John Neville.

John Howard was married firstly in 1442 to Katherine Moleyns ( 1429 – 3 November 1465 ), the daughter of William de Moleyns and Anne Whalesborough of Cornwall by whom he had six children ; and then secondly sometime before 22 January 1467 to Margaret ( 1436 – 1494 ), the daughter of Sir John Chedworth and his wife, Margaret Bowett, and widow, firstly of Nicholas Wyfold ( 1420 – 1456 ), the Lord Mayor of London and, secondly, of Sir John Norreys ( 1400 – 1466 ), Keeper of the Wardrobe.

* Seventh Siege of Gibraltar ( 1436 ) – Siege of Gibraltar, by the count of Niebla in the Reconquista

The second rector, John Beke, saw the College's safety secured by attracting donors ; the College had seven fellows by 1436.

In the years 1436 and 1468 the population was decimated by the epidemic.

Detail from a painting by Pisanello, 1436 – 1438.

File: Dom Florenz Kuppelfresko. jpg | The interior dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence designed by Brunelleschi it was completed in 1436.