1440s in art

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