1430s in art
The decade of the 1430s in art involved some significant events.
Events
- 1430: Sometimes considered end of Medieval art period in Italy.
- 1430s: Start of European printmaking as the engraver known as the Master of the Playing Cards becomes active in south-western Germany and Switzerland.
- 1435: Leon Battista Alberti writes Della Pittura.
- 1438–1440: Donatello completes his series of sculptures for the Cathedral of Prato.
Works
Paintings
- 1425-1430: Masolino da Panicale – The Annunciation
- 1428-1432: Jan van Eyck – Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata
- c.1430
- * Domenico di Bartolo – Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saint Peter and Saint Paul
- * Jan van Eyck – Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon
- c.1430-1432
- * Fra Angelico – The Annunciation
- * Stefano di Giovanni – Madonna of the Snows Altarpiece
- c.1430-1440: Jan van Eyck – Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych
- 1432: Jan van Eyck
- * Ghent Altarpiece
- * Léal Souvenir
- 1432-1434: Fra Angelico – Annunciation of Cortona completed in Florence
- 1433:
- * Domenico di Bartolo – Madonna of Humility
- * Rogier [van der Weyden] – Virgin and Child Enthroned
- * Jan van Eyck – Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?)
- 1434: Jan van Eyck – Arnolfini portrait
- c.1434: Stefano di Giovanni
- * Madonna of Humility with Saints
- * San Domenico da Cortona Polyptych
- c.1434-1436: Jan van Eyck – The Annunciation
- c.1434-1446: Workshop of Rogier van der Weyden – The Annunciation
- 1435-1438: Rogier van der Weyden – The Magdalen Reading
- c.1435-1440: Rogier van der Weyden – Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin
- 1435: Stefano di Giovanni – The Journey of the Magi
- c.1435
- * Jan van Eyck – Madonna of Chancellor Rolin
- * Konrad Witz – Heilspiegel Altarpiece and St. Christopher
- 1436
- * Paolo Uccello – Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood
- * Jan van Eyck – The Madonna with Canon van der Paele
- 1437: Domenico di Bartolo – Virgin and Child
- c.1437
- * Stefano di Giovanni – Polyptych of St. Anthony the Abbot
- * Jan van Eyck – Lucca Madonna
- c.1437–1438: Fra Angelico – Perugia Altarpiece
- c.1437–1444: Stefano di Giovanni
- * Ecstasy of Saint Francis
- * Saint Francis Receiving Stigmata
- c.1437–1446: Fra Angelico – The Annunciation
- 1438: Domenico di Bartolo – Polyptych of Santa Giuliana
- c.1438–1440: Jan van Eyck – Madonna in the Church
- 1439: Jan van Eyck – ''Portrait of Margareta van Eyck''
Sculpture
- c.1425-1466: Donatello – David
- c. 1430 – Donatello – Dovizia
- 1431-1438: Luca della Robbia – Cantoria
- c.1435: Lorenzo Ghiberti – Gates of Paradise
- 1438: Donatello – ''St. John the Baptist''
Births
- 1430: Michel Colombe – French sculptor
- 1430: Jean Colombe – French miniature painter and illuminator of manuscripts
- 1430: Desiderio da Settignano – Italian sculptor
- 1430: Vincenzo Foppa – Italian painter
- 1430: Matteo di Giovanni – Italian Renaissance artist from the Sienese School
- 1430: Francesco Laurana – Dalmatian-born sculptor and medallist
- 1430: Pier Antonio Mezzastris – Italian painter of the Umbrian school of painting
- 1430: Fra Diamante – Italian fresco painter
- 1430: Carlo Crivelli – Italian Renaissance painter of conservative Late Gothic decorative sensibility
- 1430: Antonello da Messina – Sicilian painter
- 1430: Hans Memling – Early Netherlandish painter
- 1430: Giovanni Bellini – Italian painter
- 1430: Simone Papa the Elder – Italian painter
- 1430: Cosimo Tura – Italian painter and one of the founders of the School of Ferrara
- 1430: Di Biagio Baldassarre del Firenze – Italian Renaissance painter of the Florentine School
- 1431: Shingei – Japanese painter and artist of the Muromachi period
- 1431: Andrea Mantegna – Italian Renaissance artist
- 1433: Felice Feliciano – Italian calligrapher, composer of alchemical sonnets and expert on Roman antiquity
- 1433: Marco Zoppo – Italian painter active mainly in Bologna
- 1434: Kanō Masanobu – Japanese chief painter of the Ashikaga shogunate and founder of the Kanō school of painting
- 1434: Tosa Mitsunobu – Japanese painter and founder of the Tosa school of painting
- 1434: Michael Wolgemut – German painter and printmaker
- 1435: Andrea del Verrocchio – influential Italian sculptor, goldsmith and painter working at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence
- 1435: Pietro Lombardo – Italian sculptor and architect
- 1435: Michael Pacher – Austrian Tyrolean painter and sculptor
- 1435: Andrea della Robbia – Italian sculptor, especially in ceramics
- 1435: Bartolomeo Sanvito – Paduan calligrapher
- 1435: Nicolas Froment – French painter
- 1435: Bernt Notke – German painter and sculptor
- 1435: Giovanni Santi – Italian painter, poet and father of Raphael
- 1435: Jan Polack – Polish-born German painter
- 1435/1440: Bertoldo di Giovanni – Italian sculptor
- 1436: Baccio Baldini – Italian engraver in Florence
- 1436: Benvenuto di Giovanni – Italian artist, manuscripts
- 1436: Sheikh Hamdullah – Ottoman master of Islamic calligraphy
- 1436: Ni Duan – Imperial Chinese painter of people and landscapes
- 1437: Simone Ferrucci – Italian sculptor
- 1438: Melozzo da Forlì – Italian fresco painter and member of the Forlì painting school
- 1439: Cosimo Rosselli – Italian painter of the Quattrocento, active mainly in Florence
- 1439: Domenico Rosselli – Italian sculptor
- 1439: Francesco di Giorgio – Italian painter of the Sienese School, sculptor, architect, art theorist and military engineer
Deaths
- 1430: Andrei Rublev – the greatest medieval Russian painter of icons and frescos
- 1430: Daniil Chyorny – Russian icon painter
- 1430: Madern Gerthener – German late Gothic stonemason, sculptor and architect
- 1431: Li Zai – Chinese painter of landscapes and human figures during the Ming Dynasty
- 1435: Zhu Zhanji, Xuande Emperor – Emperor of China who was also a painter, especially of animals
- 1437: Pellegrino di Giovanni – Italian painter
- 1438: Jacopo della Quercia – Italian sculptor of the Italian Renaissance
- 1439: Jacobello del Fiore – Italian quattrocento painter