- 1440s in art
The decade of the 1440s in art involved some significant events.
Events
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1440 :Donatello completes his series of sculptures for theCathedral of Prato .
*1440 :Luca della Robbia invents new techniques interra cotta sculpting (approximate date).
*1440 :Pisanello moves toMilan .
*1440 :Roger van der Weyden begins his travels through theItalian city-states .Paintings
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Fra Angelico - San Marco frescoes (approximate date)
*Jean Fouquet - "Portrait ofPope Eugene IV " (approximate date)
*Filippo Lippi - "The Annunciation with two Kneeling Donors" (approximate date)
*Sassetta - "The Meeting of St. Anthony and St. Paul" (approximate date)
*Paolo Uccello - frescoes in thecloister s of theBasilica di Santa Maria Novella (approximate date)
*Roger van der Weyden - "Descent from the Cross" and "The Exhumation of Saint Hubert"
*Domenico Veneziano - "The Carnesecchi Tabernacle"
*Robert Campin - "The Annunciation "Births
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1440 :Jacopo de' Barbari - Italian painter andprintmaker (d. 1516)
*1440 :Giovanni Dalmata ,Dalmatia n sculptor (d. 1514)
*1440 :Fiorenzo di Lorenzo - Italian painter of theUmbria n school (d. 1522)
*1440 :Ludwig Schongauer - German painter (d. ca.1494)
*1440 :Hugo van der Goes - Flemish painter (d. 1482)
*1440 :Bartolomé Bermejo - Spanish painter who adopted Dutch painting techniques (d. 1498)
*1440 :Fernando Gallego - Spanish painter brought up in an age of gothic style (d. 1507)
*1442 :Benedetto da Maiano - sculptor (d. 1497)
*1442 :Jacopo da Sellaio - Italian painter from the Florentine School (d. 1493)
*1443 :Piero del Pollaiolo - painter (d. 1496)
*1445 :Francesco Rosselli - Italian miniature painter,engraver of maps andold master print s (d. 1513)
*1445 :Sandro Botticelli , Italian painter of the Florentine school during the EarlyRenaissance (Quattrocento ) (d. 1510)
*1445 :Luca Signorelli - ItalianRenaissance painter,draughtsman , especially in his use offoreshortening (d. 1523)
*1445 /1450 :Veit Stoss - Engraver, painter, and sculptor of the late Gothic sculpture in Germany (d. 1533)
*1446 : Antonio del Rincón - Spanish painter and artist (d. 1500)
*1446 :Pietro Perugino - Italian painter of the Umbrian school during theHigh Renaissance (d. 1524)
*1446 :Alvise Vivarini - Italian painter (d. 1502)
*1447 :Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi - Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1500)
*1448 :Martin Schongauer - Germanengraver and painter (d. 1491)
*1449 :Lazzaro Bastiani - Italian painter of theRenaissance , active mainly inVenice (d. 1512)
*1449 :Domenico Ghirlandaio - painter (d. 1494)
*1449 :Domenico Gagini - Italian sculptor (d. 1492)Deaths
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1440 :Cennino D'Andrea Cennini , Florentine painter (b. 1370)
*1441 :Jan van Eyck , Flemish painter - Early Netherlandish painter active inBruges and considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century (b. 1385)
*1444 :Robert Campin - considered the first great master ofEarly Netherlandish painting (b. 1375)
*1445 :Henri Bellechose - painter from the South Netherlands (b. "unknown")
*1445 :Michelino Molinari da Besozzo - Italian painter (b. 1385)
*1446 :Conrad Witz - German painter, active mainly in Basel, Switzerland (b. 1398)
*1447 :Masolino da Panicale - Italian painter (b. 1383)
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