1480s in art

The decade of the 1480s in art involved some significant events.

Events

* 1482: A Milanese Duke commissioned Leonardo da Vinci to make an equine statue that would have been the largest in the world. A clay cast was made over 16 years but the appropriated bronze was used for cannons and the clay cast was destroyed when the Duke’s castle fell to French invaders.

Paintings

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* 1482: Sandro Botticelli – "Primavera"
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* 1486: Sandro Botticelli – "Birth of Venus"

Births

* 1480: Lorenzo Lotto - Italian painter draughtsman and illustrator (d. 1556)
* 1480: Hans Leonhard Schäufelein - German painter, designer, and wood engraver (d. 1540)
* 1480: Palma il Vecchio - Italian painter of the Venetian school (d. 1528)
* 1480: Marcantonio Raimondi - Italian engraver (d. 1534)
* 1480: Hans Baldung - German Renaissance artist as painter and printmaker in woodcut (d. 1545)
* 1480: Jean Clouet - miniaturist and painter who worked in France during the Renaissance (d. 1541)
* 1480: Joachim Patinir - Flemish Northern Renaissance history and landscape painter (d. 1524)
* 1480: Albrecht Altdorfer - German painter, pioneer of landscape in art (d. 1538)
* 1480/1482: Bernardino Luini - North Italian painter from Leonardo's circle (d. 1532)
* 1480/1485: Girolamo Savoldo - Italian High Renaissance painter (d. 1548)
* 1480/1490: Adriaen Isenbrandt - Flemish Northern Renaissance painter (d. 1551)
* 1480/1490: Joos van Cleve - Netherlandish painter (d. 1540/1541)
* 1480: Chen Daofu - Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty (d. 1544)
* 1481: Baldassare Peruzzi - Italian architect and painter (d. 1537)
* 1481: Benedetto Montagna - Italian engraver (d. 1555/1558)
* 1481: Benvenuto Tisi (il Garofalo) - Late-Renaissance-Mannerist Italian painter of the School of Ferrara (d. 1559)
* 1482: Richard Aertsz - Dutch historical painter (d. 1577)
* 1482: Giulio Campagnola - Italian engraver and painter, invented the stipple technique in engraving (d. 1515)
* 1482: Franciabigio - Italian painter of the Florentine Renaissance (d. 1525)
* 1483: Raphael - Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance (d. 1520)
* 1483: Chén Chún - Chinese artist specializing in "ink and wash" paintings (d. 1544)
* 1483: Agostino Busti - High Renaissance Italian sculptor (d. 1548)
* 1483: Il Pordenone - Italian painter of the Venetian school, active during the Renaissance (d. 1539)
* 1483: Simon Bening - miniature painter of the Ghent-Bruges school (d. 1561)
* 1484: Niklaus Manuel - Swiss dramaturg, painter, graphic artist and politician (d. 1530)
* 1485: Titian - leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance (d. 1576)
* 1485: Urs Graf - Swiss Renaissance painter and printmaker of woodcuts, etchings and engravings (d. c.1529)
* 1485: Sebastiano del Piombo (byname of Sebastiano Luciani) - Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter, famous for his combination of the colors of the Venetian school and the monumental forms of the Roman school (d. 1547)
* 1485: Francesco Vecellio - Venetian painter of the early Renaissance, best known as the elder brother of the painter Titian (d. 1560)
* 1485: Jean Duvet - French Renaissance goldsmith and engraver (d. 1562)
* 1485: Wolf Huber - Austrian painter, printmaker, and architect, a leading member of the Danube School (d. 1553)
* 1485: Girolamo Romanino, Italian painter (d. 1566)
* 1485: Jean Juste - Italian sculptor (d. 1549)
* 1486: Domenico di Pace Beccafumi - Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter (d. 1551)
* 1486: Jacopo Sansovino - Italian sculptor and architect, especially around the Piazza San Marco in Venice (d. 1570)
* 1486: Andrea del Sarto - Italian painter from Florence (d. 1531)
* 1486: Giacomo Francia - Italian engraver (d. 1557)
* 1487: Francesco Xanto Avelli - Italian ceramicist (d. 1542)
* 1487: Andrea Sabbatini - Italian painter of the Renaissance (d. 1530)
* 1487-1491: Bernard van Orley - Flemish Northern Renaissance painter and draughtsman (d. 1541)
* 1488: Alonso Berruguete - Spanish painter, sculptor and architect (d. 1561)
* 1488: Xie Shichen - Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (d. "unknown")
* 1489: Antonio da Correggio - painter of the Parma school of the Italian Renaissance (d. 1534)

Deaths

* 1489: Simon Marmion - Netherlandish painter (b. 1425)
* 1488: Andrea del Verrocchio, influential Italian sculptor, goldsmith and painter who worked at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence (b. 1435)
* 1486: Nicolas Froment - French painter (b. 1435)
* 1485: Shingei - Japanese painter and artist in the Muromachi period (b. 1431)
* 1484: Mino da Fiesole - Italian sculptor from Tuscany (b. 1429)
* 1482: Hugo van der Goes, Flemish painter (b. 1440)
* 1482: Giovanni di Paolo - Italian painter and illustrator of manuscripts (b. 1399/1403)
* 1482: Luca della Robbia - Italian sculptor from Florence, noted for his terracotta roundels (b. 1400)
* 1481: Jean Fouquet - French painter, a master of both panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature (d. 1420)
* 1481: Agostino di Duccio - Italian early Renaissance sculptor (b. 1418)
* 1481: Sano di Pietro - an early Italian Renaissance painter from Siena, (d. 1406)
* 1480: Vecchietta - Siennese painter (b. 1410)
* 1480: Simone Pope the Elder - Italian painter of the Renaissance period (b. 1430)
* 1480: Joos van Wassenhove - Early Netherlandish painter who later worked in Italy (b. 1410)
* 1480: Lin Liang - Chinese painter of plum, flower, and fruit works during the Ming Dynasty (b. 1416)