Leonardo's most famous painting of the 1490s is The Last Supper, painted for the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria della Grazie in Milan.

In the 1490s he studied mathematics under Luca Pacioli and prepared a series of drawings of regular solids in a skeletal form to be engraved as plates for Pacioli's book De Divina Proportione, published in 1509.

Depictions of the Last Supper in Christian art have been undertaken by artistic masters for centuries, The Last Supper ( Leonardo da Vinci ) | Leonardo da Vinci's late 1490s mural painting in Milan, Italy, being perhaps the best known example.

By the early 1490s, the turmoil of the interregnum gave way to an uneasy stand-off, with neither French support for the cities of the Franc ( Flanders ), nor Imperial support from Maximilian's father Frederick III proving decisive.

During the 1490s, emperor Maximilian I invested a lot of effort into perfecting the sport, for which he received his nickname of " The Last Knight ".

During the 1490s, emperor Maximilian I invested a lot of effort into perfecting the sport, for which he received his nickname of " The Last Knight ".

Moreover, recent research has shown that England's fisheries off Iceland actually grew significantly from the 1490s, albeit the center for this activity shifted from Bristol to East Anglia.

His 2008 book Toward the Setting Sun tells the intertwined story of Christopher Columbus, John Cabot and Amerigo Vespucci and their race for America in the 1490s.

Taylor argues that the London painting fulfils the requirements of the commission of 1483 in terms of iconography, and that the iconography of the Louvre painting indicates that it was painted for an entirely different clientele, and gives it a date in the 1490s.

In the late 1490s he was using his commercial correspondence for sending encoded information to Venice regarding the movements of the Turkish navy.

Art of War is divided into a preface ( proemio ) and seven books ( chapters ), which take the form of a series of dialogues that take place in the Orti Oricellari, the gardens built in a classical style by Bernardo Rucellai in the 1490s for Florentine aristocrats and humanists to engage in discussion, between Cosimo Rucellai and " Lord Fabrizio Colonna " ( many feel Colonna is a veiled disguise for Machiavelli himself, but this view has been challenged by scholars such as Mansfield ), with other patrizi and captains of the recent Florentine republic: Zanobi Buondelmonti, Battista della Palla and Luigi Alamanni.

The early printer Richard Pynson in the late 1490s and early 16th century favoured Chancery Standard in his published works, and consequently pushed the English spelling further toward standardisation.

England had lagged behind Europe in adapting to this new form of warfare ; Dartmouth and Kingswear Castles, built in the 1490s to defend the River Dart, and Bayard's Cover, designed in 1510 to defend Dartmouth harbour itself, were amongst the few English castles designed in the continental style during the period, and even these lagged behind the cutting edge of European design.

Already by the 1490s, there are rumors that silver can be found in the island's sands.

Friesland was conquered in the 1490s by Duke Albert of Saxony-Meissen.

According to viol historian Ian Woodfield, there is little evidence that the vihuela de arco was introduced to Italy before the 1490s.

The High Renaissance period is traditionally taken to begin in the 1490s, with Leonardo's fresco of the Last Supper in Milan and the death of Lorenzo de ' Medici in Florence, and to have ended in 1527 with the sacking of Rome by the troops of Charles V. This term was first used in German ( Hochrenaissance ) in the early nineteenth century, and has its origins in the " High Style " of painting and sculpture described by Johann Joachim Winckelmann.

Built in the early 1490s, the church is an example of late Perpendicular Gothic architecture that is characterised by slim stone window mullions and light but strong buttresses.

With a few exceptions ( e. g. Ruysch ), Antillia disappears from almost all known maps composed after Christopher Columbus's voyages to the Americas in the 1490s ( e. g. it is absent on the 1500 map of Juan de la Cosa, the Cantino planisphere of 1502, etc.

Angoche is an old Muslim trading centre, which local tradition states was founded in the 1490s by refugees from the Kilwa Sultanate.

In the 1490s it is likely he became a priest ( although there is no known documentation of that today ), and he also may have obtained a master's degree at a university, since he is commonly known as maistre later in his life.

This edifice is the best preserved of three sister cathedrals erected in the 1490s in the Russian North.

From the later sixteenth century until the mid-nineteenth century it was generally supposed that it was Sebastian, rather than his father John, who led the famous Bristol expeditions of the later 1490s, which resulted in the discovery, or rediscovery, of North America.

He makes the claim in his writings that he was personally familiar with Obrecht, Josquin, Heinrich Isaac, and others while he was in Florence ; if true, this would have had to have been in the late 1480s to mid 1490s.

With the Atlantic Ocean better mapped with the trans-oceanic voyages of the 1490s, Ruysch may simply have transplanted old Satanazes to a more suitable location.

More recent historians have dated the work as early as the mid 1490s and, in the case of Carlo Pedretti and Kenneth Clark, as late as 1508-10.

Sir Albert was born in Baghdad, a member of a Jewish family that had lived there since the beginning of the 16th century, having been expelled from Spain in the 1490s.

In the late 1490s Baccio was drawn to the teachings of Fra Girolamo Savonarola, who denounced what he viewed as vain and corrupt contemporary art.

It was built over about 60 years from the 1430s to the 1490s, and replaced a smaller 13th century church that was destroyed by fire.

An engraving by Israhel van Meckenem of the Mass of Saint Gregory contained a " bootlegged " indulgence of 20, 000 years ; one of the copies of this plate ( not the one illustrated, but also from the 1490s ) was altered in a later state to increase it to 45, 000 years.

There are no indications of contemporary responses to the David, although the fact that the statue was not placed in the town hall of Florence in the 1490s suggests that it was viewed as controversial.

As England's contact with the Americas increased after the 1490s, explorers sometimes included verse with their descriptions of the " New World " up through 1650, the year of Anne Bradstreet's " The Tenth Muse ," which was written in America, most likely in Ipswich, Massachusetts or North Andover, Massachusetts ) and printed / distributed in London, England by her brother-in-law, Rev.

In the 1490s, a book in Latin was written about Cem's life.

Ethnic Georgians populated the area, and in between conquests, it was a province of a Georgian Kingdom after whose paritition in the 1490s the area passed to the atabegs of Samtskhe based in Akhaltsikhe until it was taken over by the Ottoman Empire in 1578.

The first church in the village of Hundsholz was built in the 1490s.

By the 1490s it was fringed by cottages, homesteads and crofts on the three sides in Newington Barrow manor in Islington.

Unfortunately, by the time Atlantic explorers were seeking information in the 1490s, the Inventio had gone missing, and was only known through a summary in a second text, the Itinerarium, written by a Brabantian traveller from's-Hertogenbosch named Jacobus Cnoyen ( also known as James Cnoyen or Jakob van Knoyen ; modern Knox ).

Cloister Court: the Cloister walks were erected in the 1490s to connect the Old Court of 1448 / 9 with the riverside buildings of the 1460s, thus forming the court now known as Cloister Court.

There are also seven incunabula printed editions before 1500, the first from Geneva in about 1481, followed by two from Lyons in the 1480s and four from Paris in the 1490s.

Engraving of the Mass of Saint Gregory by Israhel van Meckenem, 1490s, with an unauthorized indulgence at the bottom

* Nankana Sahib, established in 1490s by first Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak Dev ji, Punjab, Pakistan.

Others, including Nicolò Tignosi in Florence around 1460, and the Frenchman Jacques Lefèvre d ’ Étaples in Paris in the 1490s, tried to please the humanists either by including in their commentaries on Aristotle appealing historical examples or quotations from poetry, or by avoiding the standard scholastic format of questions, or both.