1340s in art

• 1342: Simone Martini – Christ Discovered in the Temple • 1345: Ni Zan – Six Gentlemen • 1348: Bernardo Daddi – Altarpiece of church of San Giorgio a Ruballa, Tuscany • 1349: Zhu Derun – Primordial Chaos ==Objects==

• 1347: Église Notre-Dame de l'Assomption, Bergheim completed • 1348: Gyeongcheonsa Pagoda ==Gallery==

Image:Simone Martini - Ritorno di Gesù dal Tempio.jpg|Simone Martini, Christ Discovered in the Temple, 1342 File:Ni Zan - Six Gentlemen.jpg|Ni Zan, Six Gentlemen, 1345 File:Korea-Seoul-National Museum Gyeongcheonsa Pagoda 0187&8-06.jpg|Gyeongcheonsa Pagoda, 1348 File:Zhu Derun - Primordial Chaos (painting only).jpeg|Zhu Derun, Primordial Chaos, 1349 ==Births==

• c. 1345: Paolo di Giovanni Fei – Italian painter of the Sienese School (died 1411) • 1340: Theophanes the Greek – Byzantine Greek artist, one of the greatest icon painters, or iconographers, of Muscovite Russia (died 1410) • c. 1340: Niccolò di Pietro Gerini – Italian painter of the late Gothic period (died 1414) • 1340: Claus Sluter – Dutch sculptor (died 1405 or 1406) ==Deaths==

• 1349: Ugolino di Nerio – Italian painter most active in Siena (born 1280) • 1348: Ambrogio Lorenzetti – Italian painter of the Sienese school. plague (born 1290) • 1348: Pietro Lorenzetti – Italian painter, plague (born 1280) • 1348: Bernardo Daddi – Italian painter, apprentice of Giotto, plague (born 1280) • 1347: Andrea Pisano – Italian sculptor and architect (born 1290) • 1344: Simone Martini – Italian painter born in Siena (born 1284) • 1343: Ke Jiusi – Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher and poet during the Yuan dynasty (born 1290) ==References==