1290s in art
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The decade of the 1290s in art involved some significant events.
Events
Works
- 1291â1294: Alexander of Abingdon carves the marble tomb-chest for the bronze effigy of Queen Eleanor of Castile in Lincoln Cathedral
- 1291: A khachkar memorial stone is carved in Goshavank by Poghos
- 1291: Mosaics in the basilica San Giovanni in Laterano in Rome completed by Jacopo Torriti
Paintings
Pietro Cavallini The Annunciation, Santa Maria in Trastevere 1291
Pietro Cavallini The Last Judgement (detail of the Apostles) 1295
Births
- 1297: Jacopo del Casentino â Italian fresco painter active mainly in Tuscany (died 1358)[1]
- 1296: Yang Weizhen â Chinese painter and calligrapher (died 1370)[2]
- 1294: Zhu Derun â Chinese painter and poet in Yuan Dynasty (died 1365)
- 1292: Evrard d'Orleans â French sculptor (died 1357)
- 1291: Lippo Memmi â Italian painter from Siena (died 1356)
- 1290: Ambrogio Lorenzetti â Italian painter of the Sienese school (died 1348)[3]
- 1290: Andrea Pisano â Italian sculptor and architect (died 1347)[4]
- 1290: Giovanni di Balduccio â Italian sculptor of the Medieval period (died 1339)[5]
- 1290: Taddeo Gaddi â Italian painter and architect (died 1366)
- 1290: Ke Jiusi â Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Yuan Dynasty (died 1343)
Deaths
- 1298: Yaqut al-Musta'simi â calligrapher and the Turkish secretary of the last Abbasid caliph (born unknown)
- 1293: Jacopo Cosmati â Roman architect and sculptor, and worker in decorative geometric mosaic (born 1213)