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1400–1500 in European fashion. Full-bodied houppelandes with voluminous sleeves worn with elaborate headdresses are characteristic of the earlier 15th century. Detail from Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. Fashion in 15th-century Europe was characterized by a series of extremes and extravagances, from the voluminous robes called ...
Events. 1450: Fairfax Manuscript thought to have been completed, for John Stanley of Hooton, Cheshire ("Anno 1450" inscribed on folio 1r). [1] 1451: August 1 – A manuscript of Dante 's Divine Comedy is sold in London [2] 1452: Niccolò Perotti made Poet Laureate in Bologna by Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor.
May 8 – Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI of England. May 9 – Abdal-Latif Mirza, a Timurid dynasty monarch, is assassinated. May 13 – Charles VIII of Sweden, also serving as Carl I of Norway, is declared deposed from the latter throne, in favor of Christian I of Denmark.
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Jack Cade's Rebellion. Jack Cade's Rebellion was a popular revolt in 1450 against the government of England, which took place in the south-east of the country between the months of April and July. It stemmed from local grievances regarding the corruption, maladministration and abuse of power of the king's closest advisors and local officials ...
Events. 1450. 13 May – Christian I of Denmark becomes King of Norway. 29 August – The Treaty of Bergen is signed in Bergen. 1451. Brønshøj Church is expanded with a tower. [2] 1454. The Royal Brewery on Slotsholmen is mentioned for the first time.
Andrea Mantegna, 1456–1459. Panel, 68 × 30 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. St. Sebastian is the subject of three paintings by the Italian Early Renaissance master Andrea Mantegna. The Paduan artist lived in a period of frequent plagues; Sebastian was considered protector against the plague as having been shot through by arrows, and it ...
