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1440s in art

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==
Paintings
Annunciation with two Kneeling Donors • 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 BornemannHeiligentaler Altar (Altarpiece of St. Nicholas) (after 1444) • Dieric BoutsInfancy Triptych (c.1445) (Museo del Prado) • Petrus ChristusLamentation (Pietà) (c.1444) • Portrait of a Carthusian (1446) • Niccolò Antonio ColantonioDelivery of the Franciscan Rule (c.1445) • Lluís DalmauVirgin 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 FrancescaThe 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 PaoloGuelfi Altarpiece (1445) • Illuminations of Dante's Paradiso (c.1444-1450) • Jean FouquetPortrait of Pope Eugene IV (before 1447) • Jost HallerTempelhof Altarpiece (ca. 1445) • Filippo LippiAnnunciation (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 MantegnaSaint Jerome in the Wilderness (c.1448–1451) (São Paulo Museum of Art) • PisanelloPortrait 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 ShūbunReading in a Bamboo GrovePaolo UccelloThe 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 CathedralRogier van der WeydenThe 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 EyckAnnunciation (c.1440) • Portrait of Christ ("Vera Icon") (c.1440) (Groeningemuseum) • Saint Jerome in His Study (1442) • Domenico VenezianoThe Carnesecchi Tabernacle (c.1440-1444) (surviving fragments in National Gallery, London) • Santa Lucia de' Magnoli Altarpiece (c.1445-1447) • Konrad WitzAltarpiece of the Virgin (c.1440) • Saint Madeleine and Saint Catherine (c. 1440) • The Miraculous Draft of Fishes (1444) ==Births==
Births
• 1440: Jacopo de' BarbariItalian 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 DalmataDalmatian 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 LorenzoItalian painter of the Umbrian school (died 1522) • 1440: Ludwig SchongauerGerman painter (d. ca.1494) • 1440: Hugo van der GoesFlemish painter (died 1482) • 1440: Bartolomé BermejoSpanish 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 GallegoSpanish 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 Coterearly 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 SellaioItalian 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 RosselliItalian miniature painter, engraver of maps and old master prints (died 1513) • 1445: Sandro BotticelliItalian 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 SignorelliItalian 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 RincónSpanish painter and artist (died 1500) • 1446: Biagio d'Antonio - Italian painter (died 1516) • 1446: Alvise VivariniItalian painter (died 1502) • 1446/1450: Pietro PeruginoItalian painter of the Umbrian school during the High Renaissance (died 1523) • 1447: Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' LandiItalian 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 SchongauerGerman engraver and painter (died 1491) • 1448: Dieric Bouts the Younger - Belgian painter of the Early Netherlandish painting era (died 1491) • 1449: Lazzaro BastianiItalian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in Venice (died 1512) • 1449: Domenico Ghirlandaio – painter (died 1494) • 1449: Domenico GaginiItalian sculptor (died 1492) ==Deaths==
Deaths
• 1440: Cennino D'Andrea CenniniFlorentine painter (born 1370) • 1441: Bartolomeo di Fruosino - Italian painter and illuminator of the Florentine School (born 1366 or 1369) • 1441: Jan van EyckEarly 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 BesozzoItalian 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 PanicaleItalian painter (born 1383) ==References==
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