Rublev's Trinity (1411 or 1425–1427) and Joan of Arc's relief of Orléans (1429) belong to the same generation.
The events
- Andrei Rublev's Trinityc. 1411 · Trinity Monastery of St. Sergius. Andrei Rublev painted the Trinity for the cathedral of St Sergius's monastery, in 1411 or in 1425–1427 by different accounts. Three angels at a table, free of clutter and in luminous blues, became a model for icon painters. The icon is now in the Tretyakov Gallery.
- Joan of Arc relieves Orléans1429 · Orléans. Joan of Arc, a peasant girl convinced of her divine mission, led a French force that lifted the English siege of Orléans in nine days. The Dauphin Charles was soon crowned at Reims, marking the turning point of the Hundred Years' War.
More amazing facts
- 1347 · 1348 Ibn Battuta witnessed the Black Death: in 1348 he was in Damascus, where, he wrote, thousands were dying each day.
- 1377 · 1450 Korean monks printed the Jikji with movable metal type in 1377, some 70 years before Gutenberg's press.
- 1405 · 1498 Zheng He's first fleet sailed in 1405, 93 years before Vasco da Gama reached India.
- 1450 · 1564 Ivan Fyodorov's Apostol (1564), the first precisely dated Russian printed book, came out more than a century after Gutenberg's press.
- 1450 Machu Picchu and Gutenberg's press are the same age: around 1450 the Incas were building their mountain estate while Mainz printed its first books.
- 1450 · 1453 When Constantinople fell in 1453, Gutenberg was already printing in Mainz: the last Roman Empire vanished in the first years of the printed book.