1450s in art
The decade of the 1450s in art involved many significant events, especially in sculpture.
Events
- 1452: Filippo Lippi and his assistants begin work on the fresco cycle of the Stories of St. Stephen and St. John the Baptist in the Great Chapel of Prato Cathedral
- 1453: Piero della Francesca begins work on the frescos of The History of the True Cross at the church of San Francesco, Arezzo
- 1454-1455: Printing of the Gutenberg Bible, the first major book printed with movable type in the western world, is completed by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz
- 1459: Benozzo Gozzoli begins work on the Journey of the Magi to Bethlehem frescos in the Magi Chapel, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence
Paintings
- Giovanni Bellini
- *Crucifixion
- *Madonna with Child
- *Madonna with Child
- *Pietà
- *St. Jerome in the Desert
- *Transfiguration of Christ
- Dieric Bouts
- *Deposition Altarpiece
- *The Entombment
- Petrus Christus
- *"Berlin Altar Wings" with Annunciation, Nativity, and Last Judgment
- *Virgin and Child Enthroned with St. Jerome and St. Francis
- Antonio da Fabriano – St. Jerome in his Study
- Antonello da Messina
- *Crucifixion
- *St. Jerome and Abraham panels
- Andrea del Castagno
- *Assumption of the Virgin
- *Equestrian Statue of Niccolò da Tolentino
- Piero della Francesca
- *Flagellation of Christ
- *Madonna del Parto
- *Portrait of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta
- Stefano di Giovanni – Mystic Marriage of St. Francis
- Jean Fouquet – Melun Diptych
- Filippo Lippi
- *Annunciation and Seven Saints
- *Funeral of St. Jerome
- *Madonna del Ceppo
- *Saint Benedict Orders Saint Maurus to the Rescue of Saint Placidus
- Andrea Mantegna
- *Adoration of the Shepherds
- *Crucifixion
- *Presentation at the Temple
- *Portrait of Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan
- *St. James Led to His Execution
- *St. Sebastian
- *San Luca Altarpiece
- *San Zeno Altarpiece
- Paolo Uccello – The Battle of San Romano
- Shuilu ritual paintings
- Rogier van der Weyden – ''The Braque Triptych''
Sculpture
- 1453: Donatello's Equestrian statue of Gattamelata, Piazza del Santo, Padua, erected.
- c.1455: Donatello's Mary Magdalene, for Florence Cathedral, now in Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Florence).
- c.1457: Donatello's Judith and Holofernes erected outside Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence.
Births
- 1450: Matteo Lappoli, Italian painter
- 1450 Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch painter
- 1450: Ludovico Brea – Italian painter active primarily in Genoa
- 1450: Guidoccio Cozzarelli - Italian Renaissance painter and miniaturist
- 1450: Bartolomeo Montagna – Italian painter and architect who worked in Vicenza and Venice
- 1450: Antonio del Massaro - Italian Quattrocento painters
- 1450: Francesco Raibolini known as Francesco Francia, Bolognese painter and medalist
- 1450: Pedro Berruguete – Spanish painter
- 1450: Bartholomäus Zeitblom – German painter and the chief master of the school of Ulm
- 1450: Matteo de Fedeli - Italian Renaissance painter
- 1450/1460: Jan Joest – Dutch painter
- 1450: Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād – painter of Persian miniatures
- 1451: Cristoforo Moretti - painter of the quattrocento who worked in a late International Gothic style
- 1452: Pietro del Donzello – Italian painter
- 1452: Francesco dai Libri - Italian manuscript illuminator
- 1452: April 15 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, geometer, scientist, mathematician, musician and painter
- 1452: February 14 – Davide Ghirlandaio, Italian painter and mosaicist
- 1452: Attavante degli Attavanti - Italian miniature painter
- 1453: Sultan Ali Mashhadi - Persian calligrapher and poet
- 1454: Pinturicchio – Italian painter of the Renaissance
- 1455: Ugo da Carpi – Italian painter and printmaker who worked in woodcut
- 1455: Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis – Italian Renaissance painter from Milan
- 1455: Adam Kraft – German sculptor and master builder of the late Gothic period
- 1455: Ippolito del Donzello - Italian Quattrocento painter
- 1455: Jörg Syrlin the Younger - German sculptor
- 1455: Peter Vischer the Elder – German sculptor
- 1455: Francesco Bonsignori – Italian painter
- 1455/1460: Bernardino Bergognone - Italian Renaissance painter of the Milanese school
- 1456: Bramantino – Italian painter and architect
- 1457: Filippino Lippi, Tuscan painter
- 1457: Pietro di Domenico - Italian Renaissance painter
- 1457/1459: Jean Bourdichon, French miniature painter and manuscript illuminator
- 1458: Pietro di Francesco degli Orioli – sculptor
- 1458: Antonio Lombardo – Italian sculptor
- 1459: Lorenzo di Credi – Italian painter and sculptor
- 1459: Cima da Conegliano – Italian Renaissance painter
- 1459: Wu Wei – Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty
- 1459/1460: Benedetto Buglioni – Italian sculptor in glazed terracotta
Deaths
- 1459: Jacques Morel - French sculptor
- 1457: Andrea del Castagno - Italian fresco painter from Florence
- 1457: Rossello di Jacopo Franchi – Italian painter
- February 18, 1455 – Fra Angelico – Italian painter
- December 1, 1455 – Lorenzo Ghiberti – Italian artist of the early Renaissance best known for works in sculpture and metalworking
- 1455: Pisanello – painter of the early Italian Renaissance and Quattrocento
- 1453: Parri Spinelli – Italian painter of the early renaissance
- 1452: Bicci di Lorenzo – Italian painter and sculptor, active in Florence
- 1452: Bernardo Martorell – Spanish painter, working in an Early Renaissance style
- 1451: Piero di Niccolo Lamberti – Italian sculptor
- 1450: Sassetta – Italian painter
- 1450: Xie Huan – Chinese painter of the early Ming Dynasty