1440s in art
The decade of the 1440s in art involved some significant events.
Events
- 1440: Donatello completes his series of sculptures for Prato Cathedral.
- 1440: Pisanello moves to Milan.
- 1440: Luca della Robbia invents new techniques in terra cotta sculpting at about this date.
- 1440: Rogier van der Weyden begins his travels through the Italian city-states.
- 1445: Fra Angelico is summoned by the Pope to paint frescoes in the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament in St. Peter's Basilica.
- 1445: Piero della Francesca is commissioned by the Compagnia della Misericordia in Sansepolcro to paint the Madonna della Misericordia.
- 1448: Giovanni d'Alemagna the elder, Antonio Vivarini, Niccolò Pizzolo and Andrea Mantegna are commissioned to decorate the Ovetari Chapel of the Church of the Eremitani in Padua.
Paintings
- Anonymous – The Triumph of Death
- Fra Angelico – Frescoes in San Marco, Florence, notably the Crucifixion in the Capitular Hall, and the San Marco Altarpiece
- Fra Angelico and assistants – Frescoes in Niccoline Chapel of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican City
- Hans Bornemann – Heiligentaler Altar
- Dieric Bouts – Infancy Triptych
- Petrus Christus
- *Lamentation (Pietà)
- *Portrait of a Carthusian
- Niccolò Antonio Colantonio – Delivery of the Franciscan Rule
- Lluís Dalmau
- *Virgin and Child
- *Virgin of the Consellers
- Andrea del Castagno – Frescoes
- *Death of the Virgin
- *San Tarasio Chapel, San Zaccaria, Venice
- *The Last Supper and others
- Piero della Francesca
- *The Baptism of Christ
- *Frescoes in Castello Estense and church of Sant'Andrea, Ferrara
- Barthélemy d'Eyck – Aix Annunciation
- Giovanni di Paolo
- *Guelfi Altarpiece
- *Illuminations of Dante's Paradiso
- Jean Fouquet – Portrait of Pope Eugene IV
- Jost Haller − Tempelhof Altarpiece
- Filippo Lippi
- *Annunciation
- *Annunciation
- *The Annunciation with two Kneeling Donors
- *Coronation of the Virgin
- *Marsuppini Coronation
- *Martelli Annunciation
- Andrea Mantegna – Saint Jerome in the Wilderness
- Pisanello
- *Portrait of a Princess of the House of Este
- *Cecilia Gonzaga commemorative medal
- Stefano di Giovanni – The Meeting of St. Anthony and St. Paul
- Tenshō Shūbun – Reading in a Bamboo Grove
- Paolo Uccello
- *The Battle of San Romano
- *Green Stations of the Cross frescoes in Chiostro Verde of Basilica of Santa Maria Novella, Florence
- *Nativity and Resurrection stained glass windows and Four Evangelists clock face in Florence Cathedral
- Rogier van der Weyden
- *The Descent from the Cross
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- *Beaune Altarpiece
- *Miraflores Altarpiece
- *Portrait of Isabella of Portugal
- *Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin
- *Seven Sacraments Altarpiece
- *Frontispiece of the Chroniques de Hainaut
- Jan van Eyck
- *Annunciation
- *Portrait of Christ
- *Saint Jerome in His Study
- Domenico Veneziano
- *The Carnesecchi Tabernacle
- *Santa Lucia de' Magnoli Altarpiece
- Konrad Witz
- *Altarpiece of the Virgin
- *Saint Madeleine and Saint Catherine
- *''The Miraculous Draft of Fishes''
Births
- 1440: Jacopo de' Barbari – Italian painter and printmaker
- 1440: Agnolo degli Erri - Italian Gothic painter of the Italian Renaissance
- 1440: Antonio Vivarini – Italian painter of the Vivarini family of painters
- 1440: Adriano Fiorentino - Italian medallist and sculptor
- 1440: Giovanni Dalmata – Dalmatian sculptor
- 1440: Andrea di Niccolò - Italian painter of the Sienese School
- 1440: Dionisius – head of the Moscow school of icon painters
- 1440: Rueland Frueauf the Elder - Austrian Late-Gothic painter
- 1440: Cristoforo de Predis – Italian miniaturist and illuminator
- 1440: Fiorenzo di Lorenzo – Italian painter of the Umbrian school
- 1440: Ludwig Schongauer – German painter
- 1440: Hugo van der Goes – Flemish painter
- 1440: Bartolomé Bermejo – Spanish painter who adopted Dutch painting techniques
- 1440: Fra Girolamo Bonsignori – Italian monk and painter
- 1440: Vittorio Crivelli – Italian painter
- 1440: Fernando Gallego – Spanish painter brought up in an age of gothic style
- 1440: Rodrigo de Osona - Spanish Renaissance painter
- : Colijn de Coter – early Netherlandish painter who produced mainly altarpieces
- c.1440s: Master I. A. M. of Zwolle, anonymous Dutch goldsmith and engraver
- c.1440s: Gil de Siloé, Spanish Gothic sculptor of Flemish origin
- 1441: Liberale da Verona – Italian painter of the Renaissance period active mainly in Verona
- 1441: Ali-Shir Nava'i – Central Asian politician, mystic, linguist, painter, and poet
- 1442: Benedetto da Maiano – sculptor
- 1442: Jacopo da Sellaio – Italian painter from the Florentine School
- 1442: Domenico Morone – Italian painter from Verona
- 1443: Giuliano da Sangallo - Italian sculptor and architect
- 1443: Piero del Pollaiuolo – painter
- 1443: Baldassare Estense – Italian painter and medalist
- 1443: Giovanni di Stefano, Italian bronze-caster, engineer, and sculptor
- 1445: Gian Giacomo Dolcebuono - Italian architect and sculptor
- 1445: Francesco Rosselli – Italian miniature painter, engraver of maps and old master prints
- 1445: Sandro Botticelli – Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance
- 1445: Ambrogio Foppa – Italian goldsmith, sculptor, and die sinker
- 1445: Guido Mazzoni – Italian sculptor and painter
- 1445: Luca Signorelli – Italian Renaissance painter, draughtsman, especially in his use of foreshortening
- 1445: Israhel van Meckenem – German printmaker and goldsmith
- 1445/1450: Veit Stoss – Engraver, painter, and sculptor of the late Gothic sculpture in Germany
- 1446: Antonio del Rincón – Spanish painter and artist
- 1446: Biagio d'Antonio - Italian painter
- 1446: Alvise Vivarini – Italian painter
- 1446/1450: Pietro Perugino – Italian painter of the Umbrian school during the High Renaissance
- 1447: Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi – Italian painter and sculptor
- 1447: Bartolomeo degli Erri - Italian Gothic painter of the Italian Renaissance
- 1447: Giovanni Antonio Amadeo – Italian early Renaissance sculptor, architect and engineer
- 1448: Martin Schongauer – German engraver and painter
- 1448: Dieric Bouts the Younger - Belgian painter of the Early Netherlandish painting era
- 1449: Lazzaro Bastiani – Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in Venice
- 1449: Domenico Ghirlandaio – painter
- 1449: Domenico Gagini – Italian sculptor
Deaths
- 1440: Cennino D'Andrea Cennini – Florentine painter
- 1441: Bartolomeo di Fruosino - Italian painter and illuminator of the Florentine School
- 1441: Jan van Eyck – Early Netherlandish painter
- 1444: Robert Campin – Early Netherlandish painter
- 1444: Guo Chun – imperial Chinese painter in the early Ming Dynasty
- 1444: Ottaviano Nelli - Italian quattrocento painter
- 1445: Henri Bellechose – painter from the South Netherlands
- 1445: Michelino Molinari da Besozzo – Italian painter
- 1445/1446: Konrad Witz – German painter, especially of altarpieces
- 1446/1447: Mir Ali Tabrizi – Persian calligrapher and inventor of the Nastaʿlīq script
- 1447: Masolino da Panicale – Italian painter