15th century

June 15, 2017
Lisa Gherardini (aka Mona Lisa), the wife of Florentine cloth merchant Francesco del Giocondo, was born on 15 June 1479 in Florence.

June 6, 2017
Lorenzo di Pietro di Giovanni – known as Il Vecchietta (little old woman) – died on 6 June 1480 in his native Siena.

June 2, 2017
Florentine apothecary and diarist Luca Landucci was buried on 2 June 1516.

May 30, 2017
On 30 May 1464, Neri di Bicci painted an altarpiece depicting St Felicity and her Seven Sons for the saint’s eponymous church in Florence.

May 20, 2017
20 May is the Feast Day of Saint Bernardino of Siena, commemorating the day of his death in 1444 in L’Aquila.

May 15, 2017
Domenico Veneziano , in full Domenico di Bartomeo, died on 15 May 1461.

January 26, 2017
Bartolo di Fredi Cini died on 26 January 1410 in Siena.

January 16, 2017
On 16 January 1498 Francesco Botticini died in Florence, where he was born in 1446.

January 8, 2017
On 8 January 1963 the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. set a precedent for the blockbuster museum shows that dominated the rest of the century.

December 31, 2016
Lorenzo de’ Medici, known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, was born on 1 January 1449 in Florence.