1440s in art
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The decade of the 1440s in art involved some significant events.
Events
- 1440: Donatello completes his series of sculptures for Prato Cathedral.
- 1440: Pisanello moves to Milan.
- 1440: Luca della Robbia invents new techniques in terra cotta sculpting at about this date.
- 1440: Rogier van der Weyden begins his travels through the Italian city-states.
- 1445: Fra Angelico is summoned by the Pope to paint frescoes in the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament (destroyed) in St. Peter's Basilica.
- 1445: Piero della Francesca is commissioned by the Compagnia della Misericordia in Sansepolcro to paint the Madonna della Misericordia.
- 1448: Giovanni d'Alemagna the elder, Antonio Vivarini, Niccolò Pizzolo and Andrea Mantegna are commissioned to decorate the Ovetari Chapel of the Church of the Eremitani in Padua.
Paintings
- Anonymous â The Triumph of Death (c.1446) (Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo)
- Fra Angelico â Frescoes in San Marco, Florence, notably the Crucifixion in the Capitular Hall (completed 1442), and the San Marco Altarpiece (completed c.1443)
- Fra Angelico and assistants â Frescoes in Niccoline Chapel of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican City (1447-1451)
- Hans Bornemann â Heiligentaler Altar (Altarpiece of St. Nicholas) (after 1444)
- Dieric Bouts â Infancy Triptych (c.1445) (Museo del Prado)
- Petrus Christus
- Lamentation (Pietà ) (c.1444)
- Portrait of a Carthusian (1446)
- Niccolò Antonio Colantonio â Delivery of the Franciscan Rule (c.1445)
- LluÃs Dalmau
- Virgin and Child (1445)
- Virgin of the Consellers (1443-1445)
- Andrea del Castagno â Frescoes
- Death of the Virgin (1442â1443) (St Mark's Basilica, Venice)
- San Tarasio Chapel, San Zaccaria, Venice (1442)
- The Last Supper (1445-1450) and others (Sant'Apollonia, Florence)
- Piero della Francesca
- The Baptism of Christ (completed c.1448-1450)
- Frescoes in Castello Estense and church of Sant'Andrea, Ferrara (1449; now lost)
- Barthélemy d'Eyck (attributed) â Aix Annunciation (1443-1445)
- Giovanni di Paolo
- Guelfi Altarpiece (1445)
- Illuminations of Dante's Paradiso (c.1444-1450)
- Jean Fouquet â Portrait of Pope Eugene IV (before 1447)
- Jost Haller â Tempelhof Altarpiece (ca. 1445)
- Filippo Lippi
- Annunciation (completed c.1443-1450) (Alte Pinakothek, Munich)
- Annunciation (completed c.1445-1450) (Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome)
- The Annunciation with two Kneeling Donors (1440-1445)
- Coronation of the Virgin (1441-1447)
- Marsuppini Coronation (after 1444)
- Martelli Annunciation (c.1440)
- Andrea Mantegna â Saint Jerome in the Wilderness (c.1448â1451) (São Paulo Museum of Art)
- Pisanello
- Portrait of a Princess of the House of Este (c.1435-1449)
- Cecilia Gonzaga commemorative medal (1447)
- Stefano di Giovanni (Sassetta) â The Meeting of St. Anthony and St. Paul (c.1440)
- TenshÅ ShÅ«bun â Reading in a Bamboo Grove
- Paolo Uccello
- The Battle of San Romano (triptych, c.1435-1455)
- Green Stations of the Cross frescoes in Chiostro Verde (green cloisters) of Basilica of Santa Maria Novella, Florence (1446-1447)
- Nativity and Resurrection stained glass windows (1443-1444) and Four Evangelists clock face in Florence Cathedral
- Rogier van der Weyden
- The Descent from the Cross (c.1435)
- The Exhumation of Saint Hubert (c.1437-1440)
- Beaune Altarpiece (c.1445-1450)
- Miraflores Altarpiece (c.1442-1445)
- Portrait of Isabella of Portugal (c.1445-1450)
- Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin ("Self-portrait as Saint Luke") (c.1435-1440) (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
- Seven Sacraments Altarpiece (1445-1450)
- Frontispiece of the Chroniques de Hainaut (1447)
- Jan van Eyck
- Annunciation (c.1440)
- Portrait of Christ ("Vera Icon") (c.1440) (Groeningemuseum)
- Saint Jerome in His Study (1442)
- Domenico Veneziano
- The Carnesecchi Tabernacle (c.1440-1444) (surviving fragments in National Gallery, London)
- Santa Lucia de' Magnoli Altarpiece (c.1445-1447)
- Konrad Witz
- Altarpiece of the Virgin (c.1440)
- Saint Madeleine and Saint Catherine (c. 1440)
- The Miraculous Draft of Fishes (1444)
Births
- 1440: Jacopo de' Barbari â Italian painter and printmaker (died 1516)
- 1440: Agnolo degli Erri - Italian Gothic painter of the Italian Renaissance (died 1482)
- 1440: Antonio Vivarini â Italian painter of the Vivarini family of painters (died 1480)
- 1440: Adriano Fiorentino - Italian medallist and sculptor (died 1499)
- 1440: Giovanni Dalmata â Dalmatian sculptor (died 1514)
- 1440: Andrea di Niccolò - Italian painter of the Sienese School (died 1514)
- 1440: Dionisius â head of the Moscow school of icon painters (died 1502)
- 1440: Rueland Frueauf the Elder - Austrian Late-Gothic painter (died 1507)
- 1440: Cristoforo de Predis â Italian miniaturist and illuminator (died 1486)
- 1440: Fiorenzo di Lorenzo â Italian painter of the Umbrian school (died 1522)
- 1440: Ludwig Schongauer â German painter (d. ca.1494)
- 1440: Hugo van der Goes â Flemish painter (died 1482)
- 1440: Bartolomé Bermejo â Spanish painter who adopted Dutch painting techniques (died 1498)
- 1440: Fra Girolamo Bonsignori â Italian monk and painter (died 1519)
- 1440: Vittorio Crivelli â Italian painter (died 1501/1502)
- 1440: Fernando Gallego â Spanish painter brought up in an age of gothic style (died 1507)
- 1440: Rodrigo de Osona - Spanish Renaissance painter (died 1518)
- (born 1440â1445): Colijn de Coter â early Netherlandish painter who produced mainly altarpieces (died 1522-1532)
- c.1440s: Master I. A. M. of Zwolle, anonymous Dutch goldsmith and engraver (died 1504)
- c.1440s: Gil de Siloé, Spanish Gothic sculptor of Flemish origin (died 1501)
- 1441: Liberale da Verona â Italian painter of the Renaissance period active mainly in Verona (died 1526)
- 1441: Ali-Shir Nava'i â Central Asian politician, mystic, linguist, painter, and poet (died 1501)
- 1442: Benedetto da Maiano â sculptor (died 1497)[1]
- 1442: Jacopo da Sellaio â Italian painter from the Florentine School (died 1493)
- 1442: Domenico Morone â Italian painter from Verona (died 1518)
- 1443: Giuliano da Sangallo - Italian sculptor and architect (died 1518)
- 1443: Piero del Pollaiuolo â painter (died 1496)
- 1443: Baldassare Estense â Italian painter and medalist (died unknown)
- 1443: Giovanni di Stefano, Italian bronze-caster, engineer, and sculptor (died 1506)
- 1445: Gian Giacomo Dolcebuono - Italian architect and sculptor (died 1504)
- 1445: Francesco Rosselli â Italian miniature painter, engraver of maps and old master prints (died 1513)
- 1445: Sandro Botticelli â Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento) (died 1510)
- 1445: Ambrogio Foppa â Italian goldsmith, sculptor, and die sinker (died 1527)
- 1445: Guido Mazzoni â Italian sculptor and painter (died 1518)
- 1445: Luca Signorelli â Italian Renaissance painter, draughtsman, especially in his use of foreshortening (died 1523)
- 1445: Israhel van Meckenem â German printmaker and goldsmith (died 1503)
- 1445/1450: Veit Stoss â Engraver, painter, and sculptor of the late Gothic sculpture in Germany (died 1533)
- 1446: Antonio del Rincón â Spanish painter and artist (died 1500)
- 1446: Biagio d'Antonio - Italian painter (died 1516)
- 1446: Alvise Vivarini â Italian painter (died 1502)
- 1446/1450: Pietro Perugino â Italian painter of the Umbrian school during the High Renaissance (died 1523)
- 1447: Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi â Italian painter and sculptor (died 1500)
- 1447: Bartolomeo degli Erri - Italian Gothic painter of the Italian Renaissance (died 1482)
- 1447: Giovanni Antonio Amadeo â Italian early Renaissance sculptor[1], architect and engineer (died 1522)
- 1448: Martin Schongauer â German engraver and painter (died 1491)
- 1448: Dieric Bouts the Younger - Belgian painter of the Early Netherlandish painting era (died 1491)
- 1449: Lazzaro Bastiani â Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in Venice (died 1512)
- 1449: Domenico Ghirlandaio â painter (died 1494)
- 1449: Domenico Gagini â Italian sculptor (died 1492)
Deaths
- 1440: Cennino D'Andrea Cennini â Florentine painter (born 1370)
- 1441: Bartolomeo di Fruosino - Italian painter and illuminator of the Florentine School (born 1366 or 1369)
- 1441: Jan van Eyck â Early Netherlandish painter (born 1385)
- 1444: Robert Campin â Early Netherlandish painter (born 1375)
- 1444: Guo Chun â imperial Chinese painter in the early Ming Dynasty (born 1370)
- 1444: Ottaviano Nelli - Italian quattrocento painter (born 1375)
- 1445: Henri Bellechose â painter from the South Netherlands (b. unknown)
- 1445: Michelino Molinari da Besozzo â Italian painter (born 1385)
- 1445/1446: Konrad Witz â German painter, especially of altarpieces (born 1400-1410)
- 1446/1447: Mir Ali Tabrizi â Persian calligrapher and inventor of the NastaÊ¿lÄ«q script (born unknown)
- 1447: Masolino da Panicale â Italian painter (born 1383)