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The first-century CE rabbi Tarfon is quoted as saying "The day is short, the labor vast, the workers are lazy, the reward great, the Master urgent." (Avot 2:15). A light-hearted version in England, thought to have originated in Shropshire, is the pun "Bars longa, vita brevis" i.e. so many bars (or pubs) to visit, in so short a life.
1400: Bernardo Martorell – Spanish painter, working in a late gothic style (died 1452) 1400: Luca della Robbia – Italian sculptor from Florence, noted for his terracotta roundels (died 1482) 1400: Filarete – Florentine Renaissance architect, sculptor and architectural theorist (died 1469)
Renaissance art (1350 – 1620 [1]) is the painting, sculpture, and decorative arts of the period of European history known as the Renaissance, which emerged as a distinct style in Italy in about AD 1400, in parallel with developments which occurred in philosophy, literature, music, science, and technology. [2]
Early Netherlandish painting – 1400 – 1500 Early Cretan School – post-Byzantine art or Cretan Renaissance 1400 – 1500 Mannerism and Late Renaissance – 1520 – 1600, began in central Italy
Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell, composed 1688, after Virgil. Achilles by John Gay, composed in 1733; Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz, composed 1856–8 after Virgil. La belle Hélène by Jacques Offenbach composed in 1864; Troilus and Cressida by William Walton composed 1947–1954 after Chaucer. King Priam by Michael Tippett, composed 1958 ...
While the art of the older masters was based in the physical world of everyday experience, Bosch confronts his viewer with, in the words of the art historian Walter Gibson, "a world of dreams [and] nightmares in which forms seem to flicker and change before our eyes".
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States: Oil and gold on panel 169,5 x 168,9 c. 1504 The Agony in the Garden [Wikidata] Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States: Oil on panel 24,1 x 28,9 Lamentation over the Dead Christ (Raphael) [Wikidata] Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, United States: Oil on panel 23,5 x 28,8 c ...
23 April: English writer Geoffrey Chaucer is granted a gallon of wine a day for the rest of his life by order of King Edward III of England in recognition of his services. Ludolph of Saxony completes his Vita Christi, which appears first in book form in 1474 and becomes an influence on St Ignatius Loyola in the early 16th century.