1160s in art
The decade of the 1160s in art involved some significant events.
Events
- 1166: Henry the Lion has the first bronze statue north of the Alps erected at Dankwarderode Castle.
Births
- 1162: Fujiwara no Teika – Japanese poet, critic, calligrapher, novelist, anthologist, scribe, and scholar
- 1160–1165: Ma Yuan – Chinese landscape painter whose work formed the basis of the Ma-Xia school of painting
Deaths
- 1167: Yang Buzhi Chinese master of ink paintings of plum blossoms in the Song dynasty
- 1165: Ibn al-Tilmīdh – Syriac Christian physician, pharmacist, poet, musician and calligrapher