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1420s in art
The decade of the 1420s in art involved some significant events.-Events:* February 19, 1426: Masaccio was commissioned to paint a major altarpiece, the Pisa Polyptych altarpiece in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Pisa.* c...

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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 the Cathedral of Prato.* 1440: Luca della Robbia invents new techniques in terra cotta sculpting ....

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The decade of the 1430s in art involved some significant events.

Events

  • 1430: Considered end of Medieval art
    Medieval art
    The medieval art of the Western world covers a vast scope of time and place, over 1000 years of art history in Europe, and at times the Middle East and North Africa...

     art period
    Art periods
    Art period n. A phase in the development of the work of an artist, groups of artists or art movement.-Renaissance:Renaissance c. 1300 - c. 1602...

  • 1430: First use of optical methods in the creation of art
  • 1438-1440: Donatello
    Donatello
    Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi , also known as Donatello, was an early Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence...

     completes his series of sculptures for the Cathedral of Prato.

Paintings

  • 1425–1430: Masolino da Panicale
    Masolino da Panicale
    Masolino da Panicale was an Italian painter. His best known works are probably his collaborations with Masaccio: Madonna with Child and St. Anne and the frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel .-Biography:Masolino was born in Panicale...

     – The Annunciation (National Gallery of Art
    National Gallery of Art
    The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden is a national art museum, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington, DC...

    , Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

    )
  • c.1430–1432: Fra Angelico
    Fra Angelico
    Fra Angelico , born Guido di Pietro, was an Early Italian Renaissance painter described by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent"...

     – The Annunciation
    Annunciation (Fra Angelico, Madrid)
    The Annunciation is a panel-painting altarpiece or retable by Fra Angelico, produced for the Convent of San Domenico in Fiesole and now in the Prado in Madrid....

    (for Convent of San Domenico, Fiesole
    Convent of San Domenico, Fiesole
    The Convent of San Domenico is a Dominican convent in Fiesole, Italy, situated between the hill of Fiesole and the suburbs of Florence. It was founded in 1406 and completed in 1435 on the initiative of Giovanni Dominici and the bishop of Fiesole, Jacopo Altoviti, both of them monks at the Basilica...

    ; now Museo del Prado
    Museo del Prado
    The Museo del Prado is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It features one of the world's finest collections of European art, from the 12th century to the early 19th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection, and unquestionably the best single collection of...

    , Madrid
    Madrid
    Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

    )
  • 1432: Jan van Eyck
    Jan van Eyck
    Jan van Eyck was a Flemish painter active in Bruges and considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century....

     – Ghent Altarpiece
    Ghent Altarpiece
    The Ghent Altarpiece or Adoration of the Mystic Lamb is a very large and complex Early Netherlandish polyptych panel painting which is considered to be one of Belgium's masterpieces and one of the world's treasures.It was once in the Joost Vijdt chapel at Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium, but...

  • 1432–1434: Fra Angelico – Annunciation of Cortona
    Annunciation of Cortona
    The Annunciation of Cortona is a panel-painting altarpiece or retable by Fra Angelico: once housed in the Church of Gesù of Cortona, it is now held at the Diocesan Museum in the same city.-History:...

     completed in Florence
    Florence
    Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

  • 1434: Jan van Eyck – Arnolfini portrait
    Arnolfini portrait
    The Arnolfini Portrait is an oil painting on oak panel dated 1434 by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck. It is also known as The Arnolfini Wedding, The Arnolfini Marriage, The Arnolfini Double Portrait or the Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife, among other titles...

  • c.1434–1436: Jan van Eyck – The Annunciation
    Annunciation (van Eyck, Washington)
    The Annunciation is an oil painting by the Early Netherlandish master Jan van Eyck, from around 1434-1436. It is in the National Gallery of Art, in Washington D.C. It was originally on panel but has been transferred to canvas. It is thought that it was the left wing of a triptych; there has...

    (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
  • c.1435: Konrad Witz
    Konrad Witz
    Konrad Witz - c. Winter 1445/Spring 1446 in Basel, Switzerland) was a German painter, active mainly in Basel, Switzerland.Witz is most famous for painting three altarpieces, all of which survive only partially...

     – Heilspiegel Altarpiece and St. Christopher
  • c.1437-1446: Fra Angelico – The Annunciation (San Marco, Florence
    San Marco, Florence
    San Marco is the name of a religious complex in Florence, Italy. It comprises a church and a convent. The convent, which is now a museum, has three claims to fame: during the 15th century it was home to two famous Dominicans, the painter Fra Angelico and the preacher, Girolamo Savonarola...

    )

Sculpture

  • c.1425–1466: Donatello
    Donatello
    Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi , also known as Donatello, was an early Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence...

     – David (bronze; Bargello
    Bargello
    The Bargello, also known as the Bargello Palace or Palazzo del Popolo is a former barracks and prison, now an art museum, in Florence, Italy.-Terminology:...

    , Florence
    Florence
    Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

    )
  • c.1435: Lorenzo Ghiberti
    Lorenzo Ghiberti
    Lorenzo Ghiberti , born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was an Italian artist of the early Renaissance best known for works in sculpture and metalworking.-Early life:...

     – Gates of Paradise (bronze panels; doors of Florence Baptistery)

Births

  • 1430: Desiderio da Settignano
    Desiderio da Settignano
    Desiderio da Settignano, real name Desiderio de Bartolomeo di Francesco detto Ferro was an Italian sculptor active during the Renaissance.-Biography:...

     – Italian sculptor (d. 1464)
  • 1430: Francesco Laurana
    Francesco Laurana
    Francesco Laurana, also known as Francesco de la Vrana was a Dalmatian-born sculptor and medallist. He is considered as both Croatian and Italian sculptor.-Life and works:...

     – Dalmatia
    Dalmatia
    Dalmatia is a historical region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. It stretches from the island of Rab in the northwest to the Bay of Kotor in the southeast. The hinterland, the Dalmatian Zagora, ranges from fifty kilometers in width in the north to just a few kilometers in the south....

    n-born sculptor
    Sculpture
    Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...

     and medal
    Medal
    A medal, or medallion, is generally a circular object that has been sculpted, molded, cast, struck, stamped, or some way rendered with an insignia, portrait, or other artistic rendering. A medal may be awarded to a person or organization as a form of recognition for athletic, military, scientific,...

    list (d. 1502
    1502 in art
    -Painting:* Raphael – Portrait of a Man-Births:* Pieter van Aelst – Flemish artist of paintings and tapestries * Heinrich Aldegrever – German painter and engraver * Barthel Beham – German engraver, miniaturist and painter...

    )
  • 1430: Pier Antonio Mezzastris
    Pier Antonio Mezzastris
    Pier Antonio Mezzastris was an Italian painter, belonging to the Umbrian school of painting.Mezzastris was born at Foligno in Umbria. He painted religious subjects, working mostly in fresco, and was a local painter, in that all of his known works can be found within 15 km of his hometown,...

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

     of the Umbria
    Umbria
    Umbria is a region of modern central Italy. It is one of the smallest Italian regions and the only peninsular region that is landlocked.Its capital is Perugia.Assisi and Norcia are historical towns associated with St. Francis of Assisi, and St...

    n school of painting (d. 1506
    1506 in art
    -Events:* Laocoön and His Sons statue is unearthed near the site of the Golden House of the Emperor Nero* Francesco Raibolini becomes a court painter in Mantua-Painting:* Leonardo da Vinci – Mona Lisa* Raphael – Portrait of Maddalena Doni...

    )
  • 1430: Fra Diamante
    Fra Diamante
    Fra Diamante was an Italian Renaissance painter.-Biography:Born at Prato, he was a Carmelite friar, a member of the Florentine community of that order, and was the friend and assistant of Filippo Lippi...

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     fresco
    Fresco
    Fresco is any of several related mural painting types, executed on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Greek word affresca which derives from the Latin word for "fresh". Frescoes first developed in the ancient world and continued to be popular through the Renaissance...

     painter (d. 1498)
  • 1430: Carlo Crivelli
    Carlo Crivelli
    Carlo Crivelli was an Italian Renaissance painter of conservative Late Gothic decorative sensibility, who spent his early years in the Veneto, where he absorbed influences from the Vivarini, Squarcione and Mantegna...

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     Renaissance
    Renaissance
    The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

     painter of conservative Late Gothic decorative sensibility (d. 1495)
  • 1430: Antonello da Messina
    Antonello da Messina
    Antonello da Messina, properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio was an Italian painter from Messina, Sicily, active during the Italian Renaissance...

     – Sicilian
    Sicily
    Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,...

     painter (d. 1479)
  • 1430: Hans Memling
    Hans Memling
    Hans Memling was a German-born Early Netherlandish painter.-Life and works:Born in Seligenstadt, near Frankfurt in the Middle Rhein region, it is believed that Memling served his apprenticeship at Mainz or Cologne, and later worked in the Netherlands under Rogier van der Weyden...

     – Early Netherlandish painter
    Early Netherlandish painting
    Early Netherlandish painting refers to the work of artists active in the Low Countries during the 15th- and early 16th-century Northern renaissance, especially in the flourishing Burgundian cities of Bruges and Ghent...

     (d. 1494)
  • 1430: Giovanni Bellini
    Giovanni Bellini
    Giovanni Bellini was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. His father was Jacopo Bellini, his brother was Gentile Bellini, and his brother-in-law was Andrea Mantegna. He is considered to have revolutionized Venetian painting, moving it...

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     painter (d. 1516
    1516 in art
    -Events:* Leonardo da Vinci moved to France and entered the service of King Francis I of France, being given the use of the manor house Clos Lucé connected via tunnel to the king's residence at the royal Château d'Amboise.-Paintings:...

    )
  • 1430: Simone Pope the Elder
    Simone Pope the Elder
    Simone Pope the Elder was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Naples. He was a pupil of the painter Antonio Solario. He painted the St Michael, saints and donors now in Capodimonte Museum. He painted an Annunciation for the church of San Niccolo alla Dogana...

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     painter (d. 1480)
  • 1430: Cosimo Tura
    Cosimo Tura
    Cosimo Tura , also known as Il Cosmè or Cosmè Tura, was an Italian early-Renaissance painter and considered one of the founders of the School of Ferrara....

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     painter and one of the founders of the School of Ferrara
    School of Ferrara (painting)
    The School of Ferrara was a group of painters which flourished in the Duchy of Ferrara during the Renaissance. Ferrara was ruled by the Este family, well known for its patronage of the arts. Patronage was extended with the ascent of Ercole d'Este I in 1470, and the family continued in power till...

     (d. 1495)
  • 1431: Shingei
    Shingei
    Shingei , also called Geiami or Shingei Geiami , was a Japanese painter and artist in the Muromachi period in the service of the Ashikaga shoguns. Born into a family of renowned artists and curators , he succeeded his father Shinno as the curator of the Ashikaga art collection and became a...

     – Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

    ese painter and artist of the Muromachi period
    Muromachi period
    The is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573. The period marks the governance of the Muromachi or Ashikaga shogunate, which was officially established in 1338 by the first Muromachi shogun, Ashikaga Takauji, two years after the brief Kemmu restoration of imperial...

     (d. 1485)
  • 1431: Andrea Mantegna
    Andrea Mantegna
    Andrea Mantegna was an Italian painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son in law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g., by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality...

     – Italian Renaissance
    Italian Renaissance
    The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 13th century to about 1600, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe...

     artist (d. 1506
    1506 in art
    -Events:* Laocoön and His Sons statue is unearthed near the site of the Golden House of the Emperor Nero* Francesco Raibolini becomes a court painter in Mantua-Painting:* Leonardo da Vinci – Mona Lisa* Raphael – Portrait of Maddalena Doni...

    )
  • 1434: Kanō Masanobu
    Kano Masanobu
    was the chief painter of the Ashikaga shogunate and is generally considered the founder of the Kanō school of painting.The Kanō school was a style of painting that maintained dominance over 400 years from Masanobu's time up through the Meiji Restoration...

     – chief painter of the Ashikaga shogunate
    Ashikaga shogunate
    The , also known as the , was a Japanese feudal military regime, ruled by the shoguns of the Ashikaga clan.This period is also known as the Muromachi period and gets its name from Muromachi Street of Kyoto where the third shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu established his residence...

     and founder of the Kanō school
    Kano school
    The ' is one of the most famous schools of Japanese painting. The Kanō school of painting was the dominant style of painting until the Meiji period.It was founded by Kanō Masanobu , a contemporary of Sesshū and student of Shūbun...

     of painting (d. 1530
    1530 in art
    -Works:* Antonio da Correggio completes Nativity-Births:* Nicolás Borrás – Spanish painter * Barthel Bruyn the Younger – German portraitist, son of Barthel Bruyn the Elder...

    )
  • 1434: Tosa Mitsunobu
    Tosa Mitsunobu
    was a Japanese painter, the founder of the Tosa school of Japanese painting. Born into a family that had traditionally served as painters to the Imperial court, he was head of the court painting bureau from 1493 to 1496. In 1518 he was appointed chief artist to the Ashikaga shogunates.- External...

     – Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

    ese painter and founder of the Tosa school
    Tosa school
    The Tosa school of Japanese painting was founded in the 15th century, and was devoted to yamato-e, which are paintings specializing in subject matter and techniques derived from ancient Japanese art, as opposed to schools influenced by Chinese art....

     of painting (d. 1525
    1525 in art
    -Events:* Albrecht Dürer - Publishes The Painter's Manual* Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen is named Court Painter to Archduchess Margaret of Austria-Painting:* Michelangelo – Head of Bearded Man Shouting* Pontormo - Youth in a Pink Cloak...

    )
  • 1434: Michael Wolgemut
    Michael Wolgemut
    Michael Wolgemut was a German painter and printmaker, born in Nuremberg.-Biography:Little is known of Wolgemut's private life...

     – German painter and printmaker (d. 1519
    1519 in art
    -Paintings:* Girolamo Alibrandi painted the Presentation at the Temple.* Hans Burckmair painted a panel picture of the Crucifixion, with St. George and the Emperor Heinrich on the wings.* Albrecht Dürer painted St Anne with the Virgin and Child....

    )
  • 1435: Andrea del Verrocchio
    Andrea del Verrocchio
    Andrea del Verrocchio , born Andrea di Michele di Francesco de' Cioni, was an Italian sculptor, goldsmith and painter who worked at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence in the early renaissance. Few paintings are attributed to him with certainty, but a number of important painters were...

    , influential Italian sculptor, goldsmith and painter who worked at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence (d. 1488)
  • 1435: Pietro Lombardo
    Pietro Lombardo
    Pietro Lombardo was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect; born in Carona , he was the father of Tullio Lombardo and Antonio Lombardo....

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     sculptor and architect
    Architect
    An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

     (d. 1515
    1515 in art
    -Paintings:* Leonardo da Vinci painted a little-known Bacchus.* Jan Gossaert painted The Adoration of the Kings.* Matthias Grünewald painted the Isenheim Altarpiece in Colmar, France.* Jacopo Pontormo painted Pharaoh with his Butler and Baker....

    )
  • 1435: Michael Pacher
    Michael Pacher
    Michael Pacher was an Austrian Tyrolean painter and sculptor active during the last quarter of the 15th century. His best-known work is the altarpiece at the church in the village of St. Wolfgang, Austria. This altarpiece contains scenes from the life of Jesus and the Virgin Mary...

     – Austria
    Austria
    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

    n Tyrol
    County of Tyrol
    The County of Tyrol, Princely County from 1504, was a State of the Holy Roman Empire, from 1814 a province of the Austrian Empire and from 1867 a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary...

    ean painter and sculptor (d. 1498)
  • 1435: Andrea della Robbia
    Andrea della Robbia
    Andrea della Robbia was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, especially in ceramics. He was the son of Marco della Robbia. Andrea della Robbia's uncle, Luca della Robbia, popularized the use of glazed terra-cotta for sculpture...

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     sculptor, especially in ceramic
    Ceramic
    A ceramic is an inorganic, nonmetallic solid prepared by the action of heat and subsequent cooling. Ceramic materials may have a crystalline or partly crystalline structure, or may be amorphous...

    s (d. 1525
    1525 in art
    -Events:* Albrecht Dürer - Publishes The Painter's Manual* Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen is named Court Painter to Archduchess Margaret of Austria-Painting:* Michelangelo – Head of Bearded Man Shouting* Pontormo - Youth in a Pink Cloak...

    )
  • 1435: Nicolas Froment
    Nicolas Froment
    Nicolas Froment was a French painter.-See also:*Early Renaissance painting...

     – French
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

     painter (d. 1486)
  • 1435: Bernt Notke
    Bernt Notke
    ' was the most important German painter and sculptor in Northern Europe in his times....

     – German painter and sculptor (d. 1508/1509
    1508 in art
    -Events:* Michelangelo begins painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling on a commission by Pope Julius II.-Painting:* Albrecht Dürer - Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand* Giorgione – The Tempest* Raphael – The Tempi Madonna-Births:...

    )
  • 1435: Giovanni Santi
    Giovanni Santi
    Giovanni Santi was an Italian painter and decorator, father of Raphael. He was born at Colbordolo in the Duchy of Urbino. He was a petty merchant for a time; he then studied under Piero della Francesca. He was influenced by Fiorenzo di Lorenzo, and seems to have been an assistant and friend of...

     – Italian
    Italian people
    The Italian people are an ethnic group that share a common Italian culture, ancestry and speak the Italian language as a mother tongue. Within Italy, Italians are defined by citizenship, regardless of ancestry or country of residence , and are distinguished from people...

     painter
    Painting
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    , poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

    , and father of Raphael
    Raphael
    Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur...

     (d. 1494)
  • 1435: Jan Polack
    Jan Polack
    Jan Polack Johannes Polack , was a 15th-century painter....

     – Polish
    Poland
    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

    -born German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     painter (d. 1519
    1519 in art
    -Paintings:* Girolamo Alibrandi painted the Presentation at the Temple.* Hans Burckmair painted a panel picture of the Crucifixion, with St. George and the Emperor Heinrich on the wings.* Albrecht Dürer painted St Anne with the Virgin and Child....

    )
  • 1435/1440: Bertoldo di Giovanni
    Bertoldo di Giovanni
    Bertoldo di Giovanni was an Italian sculptor and medallist.Born in Florence, he was a pupil of Donatello and for a long time worked in his master's workshop, carrying out his unfinished works after his death in 1466, for example the bronze pulpit reliefs from the life of Christ in the Basilica di...

     – sculptor (d. 1491)
  • 1436: Benvenuto di Giovanni
    Benvenuto di Giovanni
    Benvenuto di Giovanni, also known as Benvenuto di Giovanni di Meo del Guasta was an Italian painter and artist.Benvenuto was born in Siena and lived and worked there nearly his entire life. Over the course of 43 years he produced numerous panel paintings, frescoes, and manuscripts. He was married...

     – Italian
    Italian people
    The Italian people are an ethnic group that share a common Italian culture, ancestry and speak the Italian language as a mother tongue. Within Italy, Italians are defined by citizenship, regardless of ancestry or country of residence , and are distinguished from people...

     artist, manuscripts (d. 1509/1517
    1509 in art
    -Painting:* Raphael – Stanza della Segnatura – fresco Vatican Palace, Rome* Fra Bartolomeo – The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, with St. John the Baptist – Getty Museum* Gerard David – "The Virgin among angels and saint" is painted-Births:...

    )
  • 1436: Ni Duan
    Ni Duan
    Ni Duan , style name as Zhongzheng , was a imperial Chinese painter in the Ming Dynasty.Ni Duan as born in Hangzhou. He excelled in paintings of people and landscapes.-Notes:...

     – Imperial Chinese painter of people and landscapes (d. 1505
    1505 in art
    -Events:* 1505: Pope Julius II summoned Michelangelo to Rome to design the pope’s tomb. The contract was revised five times and only 3 of 40 large figures were ever executed.-Painting:* Hieronymus Bosch – St...

    )
  • 1438: Melozzo da Forlì
    Melozzo da Forlì
    Melozzo da Forlì was an Italian Renaissance painter and architect. His fresco paintings are notable for the use of foreshortening. He was the most important member of the Forlì painting school.- Biography :...

     – Italian fresco painter and member of the Forlì painting school
    Forlì painting school
    The Forlivese school of art was a group of Italian Renaissance painters and artists, a lot of them born in Forlì or near Forlì, between the 14th and the 18th centuries...

     (d. 1494)
  • 1439: Domenico Rosselli
    Domenico Rosselli
    Domenico Rosselli was an Italian sculptor.Details of Rosselli's life are limited, but he seems to have trained in Florence. He is best known for his work on many of the friezes, sculpted doorways and decorative fireplaces in the Ducal Palace in Urbino, most particularly the in the...

     – sculptor (d. 1498)
  • 1439: Francesco di Giorgio
    Francesco di Giorgio
    Francesco di Giorgio Martini was an Italian painter of the Sienese School and a sculptor, as well as being, in Nikolaus Pevsner's terms, "one of the most interesting later Quattrocento architects'" and a visionary architectural theorist; as a military engineer he executed architectural designs and...

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     painter of the Sienese School
    Sienese School
    The Sienese School of painting flourished in Siena, Italy between the 13th and 15th centuries and for a time rivaled Florence, though it was more conservative, being inclined towards the decorative beauty and elegant grace of late Gothic art...

    , a sculptor, an architect
    Architect
    An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

     and theorist, and a military engineer (d. 1502
    1502 in art
    -Painting:* Raphael – Portrait of a Man-Births:* Pieter van Aelst – Flemish artist of paintings and tapestries * Heinrich Aldegrever – German painter and engraver * Barthel Beham – German engraver, miniaturist and painter...

    )

Deaths

  • 1430: Andrei Rublev
    Andrei Rublev
    Andrei Rublev is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of Orthodox icons and frescoes.-Biography:...

     – the greatest medieval Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n iconographer (painter of Orthodox
    Eastern Orthodox Church
    The Orthodox Church, officially called the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly referred to as the Eastern Orthodox Church, is the second largest Christian denomination in the world, with an estimated 300 million adherents mainly in the countries of Belarus, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece,...

     icon
    Icon
    An icon is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, from Eastern Christianity and in certain Eastern Catholic churches...

    s and fresco
    Fresco
    Fresco is any of several related mural painting types, executed on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Greek word affresca which derives from the Latin word for "fresh". Frescoes first developed in the ancient world and continued to be popular through the Renaissance...

    es) (b. 1360-1370)
  • 1430: Daniil Chyorny
    Daniil Chyorny
    Daniil Chyorny was a Russian iconographer.Together with his companion Andrei Rublev and other painters, Daniil Chyorny worked at the Assumption Cathedral in Vladimir and Trinity Cathedral in the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra in Sergiyev Posad . Some icons for these cathedrals are believed to have been...

     – Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n iconographer (b. 1360)
  • 1431: Li Zai
    Li Zai
    Li Zai ; ca. was a Chinese painter of landscapes and human figures during the Ming Dynasty . His specific birth year is not known....

     – Chinese
    China
    Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

     painter of landscapes and human figures during the Ming Dynasty
    Ming Dynasty
    The Ming Dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. The Ming, "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history", was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic...

     (b. unknown)
  • 1435: Zhu Zhanji, Xuande Emperor
    Xuande Emperor
    The Xuande Emperor was Emperor of China from 1425 to 1435. His era name means "Proclamation of Virtue".-Biography:...

     – Emperor of China
    Emperor of China
    The Emperor of China refers to any sovereign of Imperial China reigning between the founding of Qin Dynasty of China, united by the King of Qin in 221 BCE, and the fall of Yuan Shikai's Empire of China in 1916. When referred to as the Son of Heaven , a title that predates the Qin unification, the...

     who was also a painter, especially of animals (b. 1398)
  • 1438: Jacopo della Quercia
    Jacopo della Quercia
    Jacopo della Quercia was an Italian sculptor of the Italian Renaissance, a contemporary of Brunelleschi, Ghiberti and Donatello. He is considered a precursor of Michelangelo.-Biography:...

     – Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     sculptor of the Italian Renaissance
    Renaissance
    The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

     (d. 1374)
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