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Piero della Francesca
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Piero della Francesca

Italian painter and mathematician

Born 1415 · died 12 October 1492, aged 76 or 77
Also known as Piero, Pietro dei Franceschi, Piero dei Franceschi

Who was alive at the same time as Piero della Francesca?

  1. Zheng He, 1371 – c. 1435
  2. Donatello, c. 1386 – 1466
  3. Johannes Gutenberg, c. 1400 – 1468
  4. Joan of Arc, c. 1412 – 1431
  5. Piero della Francesca, 1415 – 1492
  6. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  7. Sandro Botticelli, c. 1445 – 1510
  8. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  9. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  10. Amerigo Vespucci, 1454 – 1512
  11. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  12. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  13. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  14. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  15. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  16. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  17. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  18. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  19. Babur, 1483 – 1530
  20. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  21. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  22. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  23. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  24. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557

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When Piero della Francesca was born, Pope Pius II was 9 or 10, Leon Battista Alberti was 10 or 11, Pope Callixtus III was 35 or 36, Henry V of England was 28 or 29 and Jami was about a year old.

When Piero della Francesca died, Leonardo da Vinci was 40, Michelangelo was 17, Martin Luther was 8, Christopher Columbus was 40 or 41 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 23.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Geoffrey Chaucer died about 13 years before Piero della Francesca was born, Ibn Khaldun died about 9 years before Piero della Francesca was born, Timur died about 10 years before Piero della Francesca was born and Suleiman the Magnificent was born about 2 years after Piero della Francesca died.

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The 130 best-known contemporaries

130 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Piero della Francesca. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1454.

  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. Joan of Arc c. 1412 – 1431
  9. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  10. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  11. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  12. Johannes Gutenberg c. 1400 – 1468
  13. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  14. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  15. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  16. Zheng He 1371 – c. 1435
  17. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  18. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  19. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  20. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  21. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  22. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  23. Babur 1483 – 1530
  24. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  25. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  26. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  27. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  28. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  29. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  30. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  31. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  32. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  33. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  34. Vlad the Impaler c. 1430 – c. 1477
  35. Pope Pius II 1405 – 1464
  36. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  37. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  38. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  39. Leon Battista Alberti 1404 – 1472
  40. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  41. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  42. Pope Callixtus III 1379 – 1458
  43. Henry V of England 1386 – 1422
  44. Jan van Eyck c. 1390 – 1441
  45. Jami 1414 – 1492
  46. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  47. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  48. Pope Eugene IV 1383 – 1447
  49. Pope Nicholas V c. 1397 – 1455
  50. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  51. Skanderbeg 1405 – 1468
  52. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  53. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  54. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  55. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  56. Nicholas of Cusa 1401 – 1464
  57. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  58. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  59. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  60. Pope Paul II 1417 – 1471
  61. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  62. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  63. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  64. Pope Martin V c. 1369 – 1431
  65. Murad II 1404 – 1451
  66. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  67. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  68. Christine de Pizan 1364 – 1430
  69. Charles VI of France 1368 – 1422
  70. Masaccio 1401 – 1428
  71. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  72. Ulugh Beg 1394 – 1449
  73. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  74. Thomas à Kempis c. 1381 – 1471
  75. Charles VII of France 1403 – 1461
  76. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  77. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  78. Fra Angelico c. 1396 – 1455
  79. Sejong the Great 1397 – 1450
  80. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  81. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  82. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  83. Pope Gregory XII c. 1335 – 1417
  84. Władysław II Jagiełło 1362 – 1434
  85. Constantine XI Palaiologos 1404 – 1453
  86. Henry VI of England 1421 – 1471
  87. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  88. Mehmed I 1386 – 1421
  89. Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor 1368 – 1437
  90. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  91. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  92. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  93. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  94. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  95. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  96. Andrei Rublev 1360s – 1430
  97. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  98. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  99. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  100. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  101. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  102. Filippo Brunelleschi 1377 – 1446
  103. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  104. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  105. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  106. Prince Henry the Navigator 1394 – 1460
  107. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  108. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  109. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  110. Charles the Bold 1433 – 1477
  111. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  112. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  113. Zeami Motokiyo c. 1363 – 1443
  114. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  115. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  116. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  117. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  118. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  119. James I of Scotland 1394 – 1437
  120. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  121. Manuel II Palaiologos 1350 – 1425
  122. Cosimo de' Medici 1389 – 1464
  123. Rogier van der Weyden c. 1396 – 1464
  124. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  125. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  126. James IV 1473 – 1513
  127. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  128. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  129. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535
  130. Lorenzo Valla 1407 – 1457