1450

Events in 1450 4

• 1450 – 1500 Bartolomeu Dias Rounding the Cape The first European navigator to round the Cape of Good Hope, opening the sea route to the Indian Ocean.
• 1450 – 1517 Heinrich Isaac Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer Heinrich Isaac was a prolific composer who served the Medici in Florence and later the Habsburg court. His Choralis Constantinus was one of the largest collections of sacred polyphony.
• 1450 – 1516 Hieronymus Bosch Northern Renaissance · Netherlands Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450 – August 9, 1516) was a Dutch painter whose fantastical visions of heaven, hell and human folly remain among the most extraordinary in Western art. The Garden of Earthly Delights is his masterpiece.
• 1450 – 1521 Josquin des Prez Renaissance polyphony master The most celebrated composer of the Renaissance, whose masses, motets and chansons defined the Franco-Flemish style and influenced all who followed.