1250s in art
The decade of the 1250s in art involved some significant events.
Works
- c.1250: The doorway from Moutiers-Saint-Jean is carved
- 1250: The illuminated manuscript Morgan Bible is completed
- 1251: Kei school sculptor produces Tamayori-bime statue in Yoshino Mikumari Shrine
- 1251–1254: Tankei sculpts a Thousand-armed Kannon at Sanjūsangen-dō
Births
- 1250: Giovanni Pisano, Italian sculptor, painter and architect
- 1254
- * Ren Renfa, Chinese painter of horses, people, flowers and birds
- * Zhao Mengfu, Chinese scholar, painter and calligrapher during the Yuan Dynasty
- c.1255
- * Duccio, Italian artist, influential in his time
- * Filippo Rusuti, Italian painter and mosaicist
- 1259: Pietro Cavallini, Italian painter and mosaic designer working during the late Middle Ages
Deaths
- 1256: Tankei, Japanese sculptor of the Kei school
- circa 1258: Giunta Pisano, Italian painter