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Andrea del Verrocchio
Nicolas de Larmessin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Andrea del Verrocchio

Sculptor and goldsmith

Born c. 1435 · died 7 October 1488
Also known as Verochio, A. Verochio, A. Verocchio

Who was alive at the same time as Andrea del Verrocchio?

  1. Donatello, c. 1386 – 1466
  2. Johannes Gutenberg, c. 1400 – 1468
  3. Pope Alexander VI, c. 1431 – 1503
  4. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  5. Andrea del Verrocchio, c. 1435 – 1488
  6. Sandro Botticelli, c. 1445 – 1510
  7. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  8. Isabella I of Castile, 1451 – 1504
  9. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  10. Amerigo Vespucci, 1454 – 1512
  11. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  12. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  13. Guru Nanak, 1469 – 1539
  14. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  15. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  16. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  17. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  18. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  19. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  20. Babur, 1483 – 1530
  21. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  22. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  23. Huldrych Zwingli, 1484 – 1531
  24. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547

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When Andrea del Verrocchio died, Leonardo da Vinci was 36, Michelangelo was 13, Martin Luther was 4, Christopher Columbus was 36 or 37 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 19.

Born during Andrea del Verrocchio’s lifetime: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Christopher Columbus, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan and Raphael.

Not quite contemporaries: Joan of Arc died about 2 years before Andrea del Verrocchio was born, Jacques Cartier was born about 4 years after Andrea del Verrocchio died, Suleiman the Magnificent was born about 6 years after Andrea del Verrocchio died and François Rabelais was born about 6 years after Andrea del Verrocchio died.

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The 111 best-known contemporaries

111 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Andrea del Verrocchio. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1463.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  7. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  8. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  9. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  10. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  11. Johannes Gutenberg c. 1400 – 1468
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  14. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  15. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  16. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  17. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  18. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  19. Babur 1483 – 1530
  20. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  21. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  22. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  23. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  24. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  25. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  26. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  27. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  28. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  29. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  30. Vlad the Impaler c. 1430 – c. 1477
  31. Pope Pius II 1405 – 1464
  32. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  33. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  34. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  35. Leon Battista Alberti 1404 – 1472
  36. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  37. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  38. Pope Callixtus III 1379 – 1458
  39. Jan van Eyck c. 1390 – 1441
  40. Jami 1414 – 1492
  41. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  42. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  43. Pope Eugene IV 1383 – 1447
  44. Pope Nicholas V c. 1397 – 1455
  45. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  46. Skanderbeg 1405 – 1468
  47. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  48. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  49. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  50. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  51. Nicholas of Cusa 1401 – 1464
  52. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  53. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  54. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  55. Pope Paul II 1417 – 1471
  56. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  57. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  58. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  59. Murad II 1404 – 1451
  60. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  61. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  62. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  63. Ulugh Beg 1394 – 1449
  64. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  65. Thomas à Kempis c. 1381 – 1471
  66. Charles VII of France 1403 – 1461
  67. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  68. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  69. Fra Angelico c. 1396 – 1455
  70. Sejong the Great 1397 – 1450
  71. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  72. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  73. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  74. Constantine XI Palaiologos 1404 – 1453
  75. Henry VI of England 1421 – 1471
  76. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  77. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  78. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  79. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  80. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  81. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  82. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  83. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  84. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  85. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  86. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  87. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  88. Filippo Brunelleschi 1377 – 1446
  89. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  90. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  91. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  92. Prince Henry the Navigator 1394 – 1460
  93. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  94. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  95. Charles the Bold 1433 – 1477
  96. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  97. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  98. Zeami Motokiyo c. 1363 – 1443
  99. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  100. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  101. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  102. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  103. Cosimo de' Medici 1389 – 1464
  104. Rogier van der Weyden c. 1396 – 1464
  105. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  106. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  107. James IV 1473 – 1513
  108. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  109. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  110. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535
  111. Lorenzo Valla 1407 – 1457