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| c. 1397 |
| | The English king, Richard II, commissions a diptych (the Wilton Diptych) showing himself being presented to the Virgin and Child | |
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| c. 1400 |
| | The final style of medieval painting, common to all Europe, is known as International Gothic because of its slender and elegant figures | |
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| 1412 |
| | The three Limburg brothers illustrate for the duke of Berry the Très Riches Heures, one of the masterpieces of International Gothic | |
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| 1423 |
| | Masaccio paints some of the frescoes in the chapel of a Florentine silk merchant, Felice Brancacci, in Santa Maria del Carmine | |
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| c. 1430 |
| | Robert Campin, also known as the Master of Flémalle, brings to Flemish painting a natural and everyday quality which is entirely new | |
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| 1432 |
| | A new altarpiece is installed in the cathedral in Ghent, introducing the powerful realism of Jan van Eyck | |
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| 1434 |
| | Giovanni Arnolfini, a merchant from Lucca trading in Bruges, commissions from van Eyck a portrait of himself and his wife | |
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| 1435 |
| | Chancellor Nicolas Rolin, of Burgundy, commissions an altarpiece from Jan van Eyck | |
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| 1435 |
| | Rogier van der Weyden, the third in the extraordinary trio of Flemish artists of the 1430s, is appointed painter to the city of Brussels | |
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| 1436 |
| | Perspective fascinates Italian Renaissance painters after the publication of Alberti's treatise on the subject, De Pictura | |
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