Events
- 1482 – Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, commissions Leonardo da Vinci to make an equestrian statue that would have been the largest in the world. A clay cast is made over sixteen years but the bronze is appropriated for use in cannons and the cast is destroyed when the Duke’s castle falls to French invaders.
- 1483 – A competition held by the Republic of Venice to design a monument to Bartolomeo Colleoni is won by Andrea del Verrocchio with an equestrian design.
- c.1485-1489 – Jean Colombe completes the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry for Charles I, Duke of Savoy.
- 1487 – Leonardo da Vinci creates his "Vitruvian Man" drawing (approximate date).
- 1488 - Giovanni di Stefano (sculptor) makes floor intarsia showing Hermes Trismegistus, Plato and Marsilio Ficino in the west entrance of Siena Cathedral.
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