1489 - Events.
March 14 - The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
November 29 - Arthur Tudor is named Prince of Wales.
December 11 - Jeannetto de Tassis is appointed appointed Chief Master of Postal Services in Innsbruck, his descendants the Turn und Taxis family later run much of the postal system of Europe.
Typhus sweeps through Spain, its first appearance in Europe.
Nicosia, Cyprus, becomes a possession of Venice.
King Henry VII gi ...
Antonio Allegri da Correggio (Correggio, Italy August 1489 – March 5, 1534) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance.
It is not alway possible to identify a stylistic link between his paintings. Correggio is an enigmatically eclectic provincial painter; he appears to have emerged out of no major apprenticeship, and had little immediate influence in apprenticed successors, but his works are now considered to have been revolutionary and influential to subsequent artists. A century after Correggio's death, his work was well kno ...
