1290s in art

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• Music

Art timeline

The decade of the 1290s in art involved some significant events.

Events

Main article: 1290s

Works

• 1291–1294: 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

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  Pietro Cavallini The Annunciation, Santa Maria in Trastevere 1291
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  Pietro Cavallini The Last Judgement (detail of the Apostles) 1295

Births

• 1297: Jacopo del Casentino – Italian fresco painter active mainly in Tuscany (died 1358) ^[1]
• 1296: Yang Weizhen – Chinese painter and calligrapher (died 1370) ^[2]
• 1294: Zhu Derun – Chinese painter and poet in Yuan Dynasty (died 1365)
• 1292: Evrard d'Orleans – French sculptor (died 1357)
• 1291: Lippo Memmi – Italian painter from Siena (died 1356)
• 1290: Ambrogio Lorenzetti – Italian painter of the Sienese school (died 1348) ^[3]
• 1290: Andrea Pisano – Italian sculptor and architect (died 1347) ^[4]
• 1290: Giovanni di Balduccio – Italian sculptor of the Medieval period (died 1339) ^[5]
• 1290: Taddeo Gaddi – Italian painter and architect (died 1366)
• 1290: Ke Jiusi – Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Yuan Dynasty (died 1343)

Deaths

• 1298: Yaqut al-Musta'simi – calligrapher and the Turkish secretary of the last Abbasid caliph (born unknown)
• 1293: Jacopo Cosmati – Roman architect and sculptor, and worker in decorative geometric mosaic (born 1213)

References

1. "Jacopo del Casentino Biography". Virtual Uffizi Gallery. Retrieved 2025-11-03.
2. "Yáng Wéizhēn Brief Biography". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2025-11-03.
3. Frank N Magill; Alison Aves (1 November 1998). Dictionary of World Biography. Routledge. pp. 595–. ISBN   978-1-57958-041-4.
4. Huntley, G. Haydn (1976). "Pisano, Andrea". In William D. Halsey (ed.). Collier's Encyclopedia. Vol. 19. New York: Macmillan Educational Corporation. p. 82.
5. G. Kreytenberg. "Giovanni di Balduccio." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 3 October 2016