* date unknown – Baccio Pontelli, Italian architect ( b. c. 1450 )

** Bartolomeo Montagna, Italian painter ( b. 1450 )

However, the Republic collapsed when in 1450, Milan was conquered by Francesco Sforza, of the House of Sforza, which made Milan one of the leading cities of the Italian Renaissance.

** Pietro Antonio Solari, Italian architect ( b. 1450 )

* January 5 – Francesco Raibolini, Italian painter ( b. c. 1450 )

** Ambrogio Calepino, Italian lexicographer ( b. 1450 )

** John Cabot, Italian explorer ( b. c. 1450 )

In the holy year 1450 Rogier quite possibly made a pilgrimage to Rome which brought him in contact with Italian artists and patrons.

* John Cabot ( c. 1450 – 1499 ) – Italian explorer for England.

In Naples, the painter Antonello da Messina began using oil paints for portraits and religious paintings at a date that preceded other Italian painters, possibly about 1450.

Marin Barleti ( Latin: Marinus Barletius, Italian: Marino Barlezio ; c. 1450, Shkodër – c. 1512 / 1513 ).

* Sassetta ( Italian, 1395 – 1450 ) Sienese International Gothic painter

* Francesco Francia ( Italian, 1450 – 1517 )

The British justified the seizure by claiming that John Cabot ( c. 1450 – c. 1508 ), an Italian under the sponsorship of the English King Henry VII, had been the first to discover the place, though it likely was to assert control over the profitable North Atlantic trade.

One of Chalkokondyles ' Italian pupils described his lectures at Perugia in 1450 and wrote:

Baccio Pontelli ( c. 1450 – 1492 ) was an Italian architect.

Bartolomeo Montagna ( 1450 – 1523 ) was an Italian painter and architect who worked in Vicenza and Venice.

Pietro Perugino () ( c. 1446 / 1450 – 1523 ), born Pietro Vannucci, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, who developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance.

Before 1450 Italian Renaissance humanism had little influence outside Italy.

The Italian navy fired roughly 1450 shots during the engagement, but failed to do any serious damage to an Austrian ship while losing two battleships.

Piero di Tommaso Soderini ( May 18, 1450 – June 13, 1522 ) also known as Pier Soderini, was an Italian statesman of the Republic of Florence.

Francesco Raibolini ( c. 1450 – January 5, 1517 ), called Francia, was an Italian painter, goldsmith, and medallist from Bologna, who was also director of the city mint.

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Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo Vivarini ( c. 1432 – c. 1499 ) was an Italian painter, known to have worked from 1450 to 1499.

Little by little a major dynasty emerged, that of the Ottomans, who, after 1450, are referred to as the “ first Ottomans .” Patronage was exercised primarilyso be seen as the forerunners of Ottoman art, in particular the “ Milet ” ceramics and the first blue-and-white Anatolian works.

Category: 1450 in art

The first known description of an anemometer was given by Leon Battista Alberti around 1450.

In 1450 Giovanni de ' Medici commenced on a hillside the Villa Medici in Fiesole, Tuscany, probably the first villa created under the instructions of Leon Battista Alberti, who theorized the features of the new idea of villa in his De re aedificatoria.

The revival of low relief, which was seen as a classical style, begins early in the Renaissance ; the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini, a pioneering classicist building, designed by Leon Battista Alberti around 1450, uses low reliefs by Agostino di Duccio inside and on the external walls.

Although Leon Battista Alberti produced the first book-length architectural treatise of the Renaissance ( c. 1450, published in 1486 ), it was unillustrated, written in Latin, and designed to appeal as much to learned humanists and potential patrons as to architects and builders.

* 1450 — Leone Battista Alberti developed a swinging-plate anemometer.

* Apart from his treatises on the arts, Alberti also wrote: Philodoxus (" Lover of Glory ", 1424 ), De commodis litterarum atque incommodis (" On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Literary Studies ", 1429 ), Intercoenales (" Table Talk ", c. 1429 ), Della famiglia (" On the Family ", begun 1432 ) Vita S. Potiti (" Life of St. Potitus ", 1433 ), De iure ( On Law, 1437 ), Theogenius (" The Origin of the Gods ", c. 1440 ), Profugorium ab aerumna (" Refuge from Mental Anguish ",), Momus ( 1450 ) and De Iciarchia (" On the Prince ", 1468 ). These and other works were translated and printed in Venice by the humanist Cosimo Bartoli in 1586.

Around 1450, Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press and independently developed a movable type system in Europe, along with innovations in casting the type based on a matrix and hand mould.

When printing with movable type was invented around 1450, typefaces included many ligatures and additional letters, such as the letter þ ( thorn ) which was first substituted in English with y ( e. g. ye olde shoppe ), but later written as th.

However, the island of Björkö was first claimed to have been Birka already about 1450 in the so-called " Chronicle of Sweden " ( Prosaiska krönikan ):

Charles VII ( reigned 1422 – 1461 ) established the first French standing army, the Compagnies d ' ordonnance, and defeated the Plantagenets once at Patay ( 1429 ) and again, using cannons, at Formigny ( 1450 ).

By 1450, the press was in operation, and a German poem had been printed, possibly the first item to be printed there.

The author of the Cologne Chronicle of 1499 quotes Ulrich Zell, the first printer of Cologne, that printing was performed in Mainz in 1450, but that some type of printing of lower quality had previously occurred in the Netherlands.

The word manuscript derives from the Medieval Latin manuscriptum, a word first recorded in 1594 as a Latinisation of earlier Germanic words used in the Middle Ages: compare Middle High German hantschrift ( c. 1450 ), Old Norse handrit ( bef.

The first detailed descriptions of dancing only date from 1450 in Italy, which is after the start of the Renaissance.

Two centuries later, the pope became a major character in a legend which grew up about the Minnesänger, which is first attested in 1430 and propagated in ballads from 1450.

The first known documented tarot cards were created between 1430 and 1450 in Milan, Ferrara and Bologna in northern Italy when additional trump cards with allegorical illustrations were added to the common four-suit pack.

* Agnès Sorel ( 1421 – 1450 ): mistress to King Charles VII of France, first official royal mistress in France

Based on his Bußlied, Tannhäuser became the subject of legend, first attested in 1430, propagated in ballads from 1450.

This church, not to be confused with the Dresden Frauenkirche, was first mentioned in a 1205 deed issued by Bishop Dietrich II and after a blaze about 1450 rebuilt in the Late Gothic style of a hall church.

The Oxford English dictionary first records this use in English in 1450.

Completed in 1450 and placed in the square facing the Basilica of St. Anthony, his equestrian statue of Erasmo ( better known as the Gattamelata, or " Honey-Cat ") was the first example of such a monument since ancient times.

In 1450, the first bridge between Leiderdorp and Zoeterwoude was built.

This Venetian printer, who lived from 1450 to 1515, was the inventor of the italic typeface and also the first to use the semicolon.

The first step towards the canton of Graubünden was when the league of the Ten Jurisdictions allied with the League of God's House in 1450.

The government started six years after the discovery of sea route to India by Vasco da Gama, in 1505, under first Viceroy Francisco de Almeida ( b. 1450 – d. 1510 ).

" However the OED also states that the term humble bee predates it, having first been used in 1450 in Fysshynge wyth Angle, " In Juyll the greshop & the humbylbee in the medow.

Cities first began setting up municipal brothels between 1350 and 1450.

This edition removed the first edition's beginning date of 1450, though important earlier composers and theorists are still missing from this edition.