Curated category
1440s births
- Giovanni DalmataIoannes Stephani Duknovich de Tragurio entered the world around 1440 in Vinišće, a small village now part of Marina. His father Stjepan Duknović worked as a…
- Hugo van der GoesHugo van der Goes likely entered the world around 1440 in Ghent or its immediate surroundings. No records confirm his childhood or early training before he…
- Luca PacioliLuca Bartolomeo de Pacioli arrived in the Tuscan town of Sansepolcro between 1446 and 1448. He grew up living with the Befolci family while his father…
- Sandro BotticelliAlessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi was born in Florence between 1444 and 1446, though the exact day remains unknown.
- Jacopo de' BarbariNo one knows the exact year Jacopo de' Barbari was born, but contemporaries described him as a Venetian. Albrecht Dürer called him "van Venedig geporn,"…
- Jorge ManriqueJorge Manrique entered the world around 1440 into a family of immense political and literary weight. His great-nephew was Iñigo López de Mendoza, known as…
- Sophia PalaiologinaZoe Palaiologina entered the world in 1449 within the Morea, a region that would soon become the final battleground for her family.