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 – 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)
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)