1240s in art
The decade of the 1240s involved some significant events in art.
Events
- c.1240: Oxford manuscript illuminator William de Brailes incorporates in illustrations to a book of hours and a psalter named self-portraits, among the earliest known.
- 1248: April 26: Consecration of Sainte Chapelle, Paris, noted for its stained glass.
Paintings
- 1244: Chen Rong – Nine Dragons
- 1246: Ma Lin – ''The Wind in the Pines Listening''
Births
- 1240: Cimabue, Italian painter and creator of mosaics
- 1240: Arnolfo di Cambio, Italian architect and sculptor
- 1245: Araniko, Nepalese painter and architect
- 1245: Li Kan, Chinese Yuan dynasty painter
- 1247: Yishan Yining, Chinese Buddhist monk, calligrapher, writer and teacher
- 1248: Gao Kegong, Chinese Yuan dynasty painter
Deaths
- 1249: Wuzhun Shifan, Han Chinese painter, calligrapher and prominent Zen Buddhist
- 1242: Bonaventura Berlinghieri, Italian Gothic painter
- 1241: Fujiwara no Teika, Japanese poet, critic, calligrapher, novelist, anthologist, scribe and scholar