1400s in art

The decade of the 1400s in art involved some significant events.

Events

* The first century of the Renaissance is completed, but new styles of painting remain strongly linked to the gothic style, except in the Netherlands and in the Italian city-states.

Paintings and Sculptures

*c.1400 Miniaturist Jacquemart de Hesdin paints "The Carrying of the Cross"

*1408 Donatello sculpts the David.

Births

* 1400: Bernardo Martorell - Spanish painter, working in a late gothic style (d. 1452)
* 1400: Luca della Robbia - Italian sculptor from Florence, noted for his terracotta roundels (d. 1482)
* 1401: Masaccio - painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance (d. 1428)
* 1404: Jacques Daret - Early Netherlandish painter (d. 1470)
* 1404: Leone Battista Alberti - Italian author who wrote treatises on painting and architecture have been hailed as the founding texts of a new form of art (d. 1472)
* 1406: Filippo Lippi - Italian painter of the Italian Quattrocento (15th century) school (d. 1469)
* 1406: Sano di Pietro - an early Italian Renaissance painter from Siena, (d. 1481)
* 1409: Liu Jue - Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty (d. 1472)

Deaths

* 1403: Niccolò da Bologna - Italian manuscript illuminators (b. 1325)
* 1405/1406: Claus Sluter - Dutch sculptor (b. 1340)