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1440s in art
1450s
Art timeline
The decade of the
1440s in art
involved some significant events.
Contents
Events
Paintings
Births
Deaths
References
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
Filippo Lippi
–
Annunciation with two Kneeling Donors
Anonymous –
The Triumph of Death
(c.1446) (
Palazzo Abatellis
,
Palermo
)
Fra Angelico
– 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 – Frescoes in
Niccoline Chapel
of the
Apostolic Palace
in the
Vatican City
(1447-1451)
Hans Bornemann
–
Heiligentaler Altar (Altarpiece of St. Nicholas)
(after 1444)
Dieric Bouts
–
Infancy Triptych
(c.1445) (
Museo del Prado
)
Petrus Christus
Lamentation (Pietà)
(c.1444)
Portrait of a Carthusian
(1446)
Niccolò Antonio Colantonio
–
Delivery of the Franciscan Rule
(c.1445)
Lluís Dalmau
Virgin and Child
(1445)
Virgin of the Consellers
(1443-1445)
Andrea del Castagno
– Frescoes
Death of the Virgin
(1442–1443) (
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) –
Aix Annunciation
(1443-1445)
Giovanni di Paolo
Guelfi Altarpiece
(1445)
Illuminations of Dante's
Paradiso
(c.1444-1450)
Jean Fouquet
–
Portrait of
Pope Eugene IV
(before 1447)
Jost Haller
−
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
–
Saint Jerome in the Wilderness
(c.1448–1451) (
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) –
The Meeting of St. Anthony and St. Paul
(c.1440)
Tenshō Shūbun
–
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
–
Italian
painter
and
printmaker
(died
1516
)
1440:
Agnolo degli Erri
- Italian Gothic painter of the Italian Renaissance (died
1482
)
1440:
Antonio Vivarini
– Italian painter of the Vivarini family of painters (died
1480
)
1440:
Adriano Fiorentino
- Italian medallist and sculptor (died
1499
)
1440:
Giovanni Dalmata
–
Dalmatian
sculptor (died
1514
)
1440:
Andrea di Niccolò
- Italian painter of the
Sienese School
(died
1514
)
1440:
Dionisius
– 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
– Italian miniaturist and illuminator (died
1486
)
1440:
Fiorenzo di Lorenzo
–
Italian
painter
of the
Umbrian
school (died
1522
)
1440:
Ludwig Schongauer
–
German
painter (d. ca.
1494
)
1440:
Hugo van der Goes
–
Flemish
painter (died
1482
)
1440:
Bartolomé Bermejo
–
Spanish
painter who adopted
Dutch
painting techniques (died
1498
)
1440: Fra
Girolamo Bonsignori
– Italian monk and painter (died
1519
)
1440:
Vittorio Crivelli
– Italian painter (died
1501/1502
)
1440:
Fernando Gallego
–
Spanish
painter brought up in an age of
gothic
style (died
1507
)
1440:
Rodrigo de Osona
- Spanish Renaissance painter (died
1518
)
(born 1440–1445):
Colijn de Coter
–
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
– Italian painter of the Renaissance period active mainly in Verona (died
1526
)
1441:
Ali-Shir Nava'i
– Central Asian politician, mystic, linguist, painter, and poet (died
1501
)
1442:
Benedetto da Maiano
– sculptor (died
1497
)
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1442:
Jacopo da Sellaio
–
Italian
painter from the Florentine School (died
1493
)
1442:
Domenico Morone
– Italian painter from
Verona
(died
1518
)
1443:
Giuliano da Sangallo
- Italian sculptor and architect (died
1518
)
1443:
Piero del Pollaiuolo
– painter (died
1496
)
1443:
Baldassare Estense
– 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
–
Italian
miniature painter,
engraver
of maps and
old master prints
(died
1513
)
1445:
Sandro Botticelli
–
Italian
painter
of the Florentine school during the Early
Renaissance
(
Quattrocento
) (died
1510
)
1445:
Ambrogio Foppa
– Italian goldsmith, sculptor, and die sinker (died
1527
)
1445:
Guido Mazzoni
– Italian sculptor and painter (died
1518
)
1445:
Luca Signorelli
–
Italian
Renaissance
painter
,
draughtsman
, especially in his use of
foreshortening
(died
1523
)
1445:
Israhel van Meckenem
– German printmaker and goldsmith (died
1503
)
1445/1450:
Veit Stoss
– Engraver, painter, and
sculptor
of the late
Gothic
sculpture in Germany (died
1533
)
1446:
Antonio del Rincón
–
Spanish
painter and artist (died
1500
)
1446:
Biagio d'Antonio
- Italian painter (died
1516
)
1446:
Alvise Vivarini
–
Italian
painter
(died
1502
)
1446/1450:
Pietro Perugino
–
Italian
painter of the Umbrian school during the
High Renaissance
(died
1523
)
1447:
Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi
–
Italian
painter and sculptor (died
1500
)
1447:
Bartolomeo degli Erri
- Italian Gothic painter of the Italian Renaissance (died
1482
)
1447:
Giovanni Antonio Amadeo
– Italian early Renaissance sculptor[1], architect and engineer (died
1522
)
1448:
Martin Schongauer
–
German
engraver
and
painter
(died
1491
)
1448:
Dieric Bouts the Younger
- Belgian painter of the Early Netherlandish painting era (died
1491
)
1449:
Lazzaro Bastiani
–
Italian
painter of the
Renaissance
, active mainly in
Venice
(died
1512
)
1449:
Domenico Ghirlandaio
– painter (died
1494
)
1449:
Domenico Gagini
–
Italian
sculptor (died
1492
)
Deaths
1440:
Cennino D'Andrea Cennini
–
Florentine
painter (born
1370
)
1441:
Bartolomeo di Fruosino
- Italian painter and illuminator of the
Florentine School
(born
1366 or 1369
)
1441:
Jan van Eyck
–
Early Netherlandish painter
(born
1385
)
1444:
Robert Campin
– Early Netherlandish painter (born
1375
)
1444:
Guo Chun
– imperial Chinese painter in the early Ming Dynasty (born
1370
)
1444:
Ottaviano Nelli
- Italian
quattrocento
painter (born
1375
)
1445:
Henri Bellechose
– painter from the
South Netherlands
(b.
unknown
)
1445:
Michelino Molinari da Besozzo
–
Italian
painter (born
1385
)
1445/1446:
Konrad Witz
– German painter, especially of altarpieces (born
1400-1410
)
1446/1447:
Mir Ali Tabrizi
– Persian
calligrapher
and inventor of the
Nastaʿlīq script
(born unknown)
1447:
Masolino da Panicale
–
Italian
painter (born
1383
)
References
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.
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2025
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