Who Was Alive

Donatello

Early Renaissance Italian sculptor

Born c. 1386 · died 13 December 1466

Who was alive at the same time as Donatello?

  1. Hafez
  2. Ibn Khaldun
  3. Timur
  4. Geoffrey Chaucer
  5. Jan Hus
  6. Zheng He
  7. Donatello
  8. Johannes Gutenberg
  9. Pius II
  10. Joan of Arc
  11. Vlad the Impaler
  12. Alexander VI
  13. François Villon
  14. Mehmed II
  15. Sandro Botticelli
  16. Julius II
  17. Hieronymus Bosch
  18. Christopher Columbus
  19. Isabella I of Castile
  20. Ferdinand II of Aragon
  21. Leonardo da Vinci
  22. Amerigo Vespucci
  23. Erasmus
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Donatello died, Leonardo da Vinci was 14, Christopher Columbus was 14 or 15, Erasmus was under a year old, Mehmed II was 34 and Amerigo Vespucci was 12.

Born during Donatello’s lifetime: Leonardo da Vinci, Christopher Columbus, Joan of Arc, Johannes Gutenberg, Erasmus, Mehmed II, Sandro Botticelli and Amerigo Vespucci.

Not quite contemporaries: Michelangelo was born 9 years after Donatello died, Niccolò Machiavelli was born 3 years after Donatello died, Nicolaus Copernicus was born 7 years after Donatello died and Ferdinand Magellan was born 12 years after Donatello died.

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