1440s in art explained
The decade of the
1440s in art involved some significant events.
Events
Paintings
Births
- 1440: Jacopo de' Barbari – Italian 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 Dalmata – Dalmatian 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 Lorenzo – Italian painter of the Umbrian school (died 1522)
- 1440: Ludwig Schongauer – German painter (d. ca.1494)
- 1440: Hugo van der Goes – Flemish painter (died 1482)
- 1440: Bartolomé Bermejo – Spanish 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 Gallego – Spanish 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 Coter – early 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 Sellaio – Italian 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 Rosselli – Italian miniature painter, engraver of maps and old master prints (died 1513)
- 1445: Sandro Botticelli – Italian 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 Signorelli – Italian 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 Rincón – Spanish painter and artist (died 1500)
- 1446: Biagio d'Antonio - Italian painter (died 1516)
- 1446: Alvise Vivarini – Italian painter (died 1502)
- 1446/1450: Pietro Perugino – Italian painter of the Umbrian school during the High Renaissance (died 1523)
- 1447: Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi – Italian 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 Schongauer – German engraver and painter (died 1491)
- 1448: Dieric Bouts the Younger - Belgian painter of the Early Netherlandish painting era (died 1491)
- 1449: Lazzaro Bastiani – Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in Venice (died 1512)
- 1449: Domenico Ghirlandaio – painter (died 1494)
- 1449: Domenico Gagini – Italian sculptor (died 1492)
Deaths
