1340s in art
The decade of the 1340s in art involved some significant events.
Paintings
- 1342: Simone Martini – Christ Discovered in the Temple
- 1345: Ni Zan – Six Gentlemen
- 1348: Bernardo Daddi – Altarpiece of church of San Giorgio a Ruballa, Tuscany
- 1349: Zhu Derun – ''Primordial Chaos''
Objects
Births
- c. 1345: Paolo di Giovanni Fei – Italian painter of the Sienese School
- 1340: Theophanes the Greek – Byzantine Greek artist, one of the greatest icon painters, or iconographers, of Muscovite Russia
- c. 1340: Niccolò di Pietro Gerini – Italian painter of the late Gothic period
- 1340: Claus Sluter – Dutch sculptor
Deaths
- 1349: Ugolino di Nerio – Italian painter most active in Siena
- 1348: Ambrogio Lorenzetti – Italian painter of the Sienese school. plague
- 1348: Pietro Lorenzetti – Italian painter, plague
- 1348: Bernardo Daddi – Italian painter, apprentice of Giotto, plague
- 1347: Andrea Pisano – Italian sculptor and architect
- 1344: Simone Martini – Italian painter born in Siena
- 1343: Ke Jiusi – Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher and poet during the Yuan dynasty