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| c. 1300 |
| | | Tabriz under the Mongol Il-khans is the first centre of Persian miniature painting | |
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| c. 1305 |
| | | Enrico degli Scrovegni employs Giotto to paint the cycle of frescoes in his chapel in Padua | |
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| 1308 |
| | | The cathedral authorities in Siena commission from Duccio the great altarpiece which becomes known as the Maestà | |
|  | Duccio Crucifixion (detail)
Manchester City Museum and Art Gallery
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| c. 1320 |
| | | Philippe de Vitry, in his Ars Nova ('New Art'), lays out the basis of musical notation | |
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| 1345 |
| | | The great Byzantine altarpiece of St Mark's, the Pala d'Oro, is adjusted to take its present form | |
|  | Pala d'Oro
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| c. 1350 |
| | | The classic Chinese underglaze blue is perfected in the imperial ceramic factory at Jingdezhen | |
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| 1374 |
| | | Kanami and Zeami Motokiyo please the shogun with their theatrical performance, and his patronage begins the tradition of Japan's No theatre | |
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| 1395 |
| | | Philip II of Burgundy commissions from Netherlands sculptor Claus Sluter a work, the Well of Moses, which launches the northern Renaissance | |
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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. 1397 |
| | | The keyboard of the organ is adapted in Germany to strings, thus providing the harpsichord - first mentioned in a manuscript of this year | |
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