1480s in art
The decade of the 1480s in art involved some significant events.
Events
Image:Sandro Botticelli - La nascita di Venere - Google Art Project - edited.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, 1486, Uffizi, FlorenceImage:Bellini, Giovanni ~ St Francis in the Desert, c1480, Tempera and oil on panel Frick Collection, New York.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Giovanni Bellini, St. Francis in the Desert, c.1480, Frick Collection, New York
- c.1480–1483 – Tomb of Philippe Pot constructed.
- 1481
- * Altarpiece of St. Nicholas Church, Tallinn from the workshop of Hermen Rode completed.
- * A group of Florentine painters – Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Cosimo Rosselli – begins work on mural frescos in the Sistine Chapel, Rome, with Pietro Perugino.
- 1482 – Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, commissions Leonardo da Vinci to make an equestrian statue that would have been the largest in the world. A clay cast is made over sixteen years but the bronze is appropriated for use in cannons and the cast is destroyed when the Duke's castle falls to French invaders.
- 1483 – In the Republic of Venice
- * A competition to design a monument to Bartolomeo Colleoni is won by Andrea del Verrocchio with an equestrian design.
- * Giovanni Bellini is named official painter to the Republic.
- 1484 – Albrecht Dürer makes a Self-Portrait at the age of 13 in silverpoint.
- c.1485-1489 – Jean Colombe completes the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry for Charles I, Duke of Savoy.
- 1487
- * Leonardo da Vinci creates his "Vitruvian Man" drawing.
- * Bernt Notke creates his painted wooden sculpture of Saint George and the Dragon for the Storkyrkan in Stockholm.
- 1488 - Giovanni di Stefano (sculptor) makes floor intarsia showing Hermes Trismegistus, Plato and Marsilio Ficino in the west entrance of Siena Cathedral.
Paintings
- 1479-81: Ercole de' Roberti - Santa Maria in Porto Altarpiece
- 1480-90: Sandro Botticelli - The Map of Hell
- 1480
- * Gentile Bellini - Sultan Mehmed II
- * Giovanni Bellini - St. Francis in Ecstasy
- * Sandro Botticelli - Saint Augustine in His Study
- * Carlo Crivelli - Madonna and Child
- * Domenico Ghirlandaio - St. Jerome in his Study
- * Hans Memling
- ** Advent and Triumph of Christ
- ** Sibylla Sambetha
- ** Virgin and Child with Musician Angels and donor with St. George
- c.1480
- * Sandro Botticelli - The Resurrected Christ
- * Ercole de' Roberti - Portraits of Giovanni II Bentivoglio and Ginevra Bentivoglio
- * Piero del Pollaiuolo
- ** Portrait of a Young Woman
- * Hans Memling
- ** Christ Surrounded by Musician Angels
- ** Mater Dolorosa
- ** Portrait of Barbara van Vlaendenbergh
- ** Portrait of Willem Morell
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- * Albertus Pictor - frescoes in Härkeberga Church, Sweden
- 1480-1482: Sandro Botticelli - Temptations of Christ
- 1480-1483: Sandro Botticelli - Madonna of the Book
- c.1480-1484: Fra Carnevale - The Ideal City
- c.1480-1485
- * Sandro Botticelli
- ** Portrait of a young man holding a medallion
- ** - Portrait of a Young Woman
- * Geertgen tot Sint Jans - The Adoration of the Magi
- c.1480-1486: Sandro Botticelli - Portrait of a Young Woman
- 1481: Hans Memling - Christ Giving His Blessing
- c.1481-1485: Piero di Cosimo - Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Peter, John the Baptist, Dominic, and Nicholas of Bari
- 1482: Sandro Botticelli - Primavera
- c.1482: Hans Memling - Annunciation
- c.1482-1485: Piero di Cosimo - Portraits of Giuliano and Francesco Giamberti da Sangallo
- c.1483
- * Sandro Botticelli - Portrait of a Young Man
- ** Venus and Mars
- ** Pallas and the Centaur
- * Perugino - Portrait of Lorenzo di Credi
- c.1483-1487 ': Leonardo da Vinci - Portrait of a Musician
- 1484: Hans Memling - St. Christopher and Saints
- c.1485: Hans Memling
- * Adam and Eve
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- * Triptych of Earthly Vanity and Divine Salvation
- c.1485-1488: Sandro Botticelli - The Judgement of Paris
- c.1485-1490: Heinrich Lützelmann - The Passion of Christ
- 1486: Carlo Crivelli - The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius
- c.1486: Sandro Botticelli - The Birth of Venus
- 1487: Hans Memling - Diptych of Maarten van Nieuwenhove
- c.1487-1488: Michelangelo - The Torment of Saint Anthony
- 1489:
- * Hans Memling - St. Ursula Shrine
- * Cima da Conegliano - Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saint James and Saint Jerome and Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Male Saints
Cestello
Annunciation
Births
- 1480: Domenico Alfani – Italian painter
- 1480: Giovanni Francesco Caroto – Italian painter active in Verona
- 1480: Lorenzo Lotto – Italian painter, draughtsman and illustrator
- 1480: Hans Leonhard Schäufelein – German painter, designer and wood engraver
- 1480: Andrea di Aloigi - Italian painter
- 1480: Palma il Vecchio – Italian painter of the Venetian school
- 1480: Bartolomé Ordóñez - Spanish sculptor
- 1480: Hans Brüggemann - German sculptor
- 1480: Marcantonio Raimondi – Italian engraver
- 1480: Hans Baldung – German Renaissance artist as painter and printmaker in woodcut
- 1480: Jean Clouet – miniaturist and painter working in France during the Renaissance
- 1480: Nicola Filotesio – Italian painter, architect and sculptor
- 1480: Damià Forment - Spanish sculptor
- 1480: Joachim Patinir – Flemish Northern Renaissance history and landscape painter
- 1480: Nicola da Urbino - Italian maiolica and ceramicist
- 1480: Albrecht Altdorfer – German painter, pioneer of landscape in art
- 1480: Erhard Altdorfer - German Early Renaissance printmaker, painter, and architect
- 1480: Jerg Ratgeb – German painter
- 1480: Jan Rombouts the Elder - Flemish Renaissance painter, glass painter, draftsman, printmaker and glass designer
- 1480: Gerino da Pistoia - Italian painter and designer of the Renaissance
- 1480: Raimo Epifanio Tesauro – Italian Renaissance painter specializing in frescoes
- 1480: Jan Wellens de Cock - Flemish painter and draughtsman of the Northern Renaissance
- 1480: Hans Maler zu Schwaz - German painter and portraitist
- c.1480: Benedetto Montagna – Italian engraver and painter
- 1480/1482: Bernardino Luini – North Italian painter from Leonardo's circle
- 1480/1485: Girolamo da Santa Croce - Italian Renaissance painter
- 1480/1485: Girolamo Savoldo – Italian High Renaissance painter
- 1480/1490: Adriaen Isenbrandt – Flemish Northern Renaissance painter
- 1480/1490: Joos van Cleve – Dutch and [Flemish Renaissance painting|Netherlandish] painter
- 1480/1490: Ortolano Ferrarese – Italian painter of the Ferrara School
- 1480/1490: Conrad Meit – German-born sculptor
- 1481: Hans Krafft the Elder, German medallist
- 1481: Baldassare Peruzzi – Italian architect and painter
- 1481: Benedetto Montagna – Italian engraver
- 1481: Benvenuto Tisi (il Garofalo) – Late-Renaissance-Mannerist Italian painter of the School of Ferrara
- 1482: Richard Aertsz – Dutch historical painter
- 1482: Giulio Campagnola – Italian engraver and painter, invented the stipple technique in engraving
- 1482: Franciabigio – Italian painter of the Florentine Renaissance
- 1483: Raphael – Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance
- 1483: Chén Chún – Chinese artist specializing in "ink and wash" paintings
- 1483: Agostino Busti – High Renaissance Italian sculptor
- 1483: Il Pordenone – Italian painter of the Venetian school, active during the Renaissance
- 1483: Simon Bening – miniature painter of the Ghent-Bruges school
- 1484: Niklaus Manuel – Swiss dramaturg, painter, graphic artist and politician
- 1484: Giacomo Raibolini, Italian painter
- 1485: Titian – leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance
- 1485: Urs Graf – Swiss Renaissance painter and printmaker of woodcuts, etchings and engravings
- 1485: Sebastiano del Piombo – Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter, famous for his combination of the colors of the Venetian school and the monumental forms of the Roman school
- 1485: Jost de Negker, Dutch woodcut-maker, printer and publisher
- 1485: Francesco Vecellio – Venetian painter of the early Renaissance, best known as the elder brother of the painter Titian
- 1485: Jean Duvet – French Renaissance goldsmith and engraver
- 1485: Wolf Huber – Austrian painter, printmaker, and architect, a leading member of the Danube School
- 1485: Girolamo Romanino, Italian painter
- 1485: Jean Juste – Italian sculptor
- 1485: Agostino Marti - Italian painter from Lucca
- 1485: Étienne Peson - French "primitive" painter
- 1485: Antonio Semini – Italian painter active in his native Genoa
- 1485: Lambert Barnard - English Renaissance painter
- 1486: Paolo Moranda Cavazzola – Italian painter active mainly in his hometown of Verona
- 1486: Domenico di Pace Beccafumi – Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter
- 1486: Jacopo Sansovino – Italian sculptor and architect, especially around the Piazza San Marco in Venice
- 1486: Andrea del Sarto – Italian painter from Florence
- 1486: Giacomo Francia – Italian engraver
- 1486: Francesco Torbido - Italian painter
- 1487: Francesco Xanto Avelli – Italian ceramicist
- 1487: Giulio Raibolini, Italian painter
- 1487: Andrea Sabbatini – Italian painter of the Renaissance
- 1487-1491: Bernard van Orley – Flemish Northern Renaissance painter and draughtsman
- 1487: Bonifazio Veronese - Italian Mannerist painter from Venice
- 1488: Alonso Berruguete – Spanish painter, sculptor and architect
- 1488: Xie Shichen – Chinese landscape painter during the Ming dynasty
- 1488: Girolamo della Robbia, Italian ceramicist
- 1489: Antonio da Correggio – painter of the Parma school of the Italian Renaissance
Deaths
- 1489: Simon Marmion – Netherlandish painter
- 1489: Marco del Buono - Italian painter and woodworker
- 1488: Andrea del Verrocchio, influential Italian sculptor, goldsmith and painter who worked at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence
- 1487: Baccio Baldini - Italian engraver in Florence
- 1486: Cristoforo de Predis - Italian miniaturist and illuminator
- 1486: Nicolas Froment – French painter
- 1485: Shingei – Japanese painter and artist in the Muromachi period
- 1484: Mino da Fiesole – Italian sculptor from Tuscany
- 1484: Silvestro de Buoni - Italian Quattrocento painter
- 1484: Fra Carnevale - Italian painter of the Quattrocento
- 1484: Di Biagio Baldassarre del Firenze - Italian Renaissance painter of the Florentine School
- 1483: Stefano d'Antonio di Vanni - Italian Renaissance painter
- 1482: Hugo van der Goes, Flemish painter
- 1482: Giovanni di Paolo – Italian painter and illustrator of manuscripts
- 1482: Luca della Robbia – Italian sculptor from Florence, noted for his terracotta roundels
- 1482: Agnolo degli Erri - Italian Gothic painter of the Italian Renaissance
- 1482: Bartolomeo degli Erri - Italian Gothic painter of the Italian Renaissance
- 1481: Jean Fouquet – French painter, a master of both panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature
- 1481: Agostino di Duccio – Italian early Renaissance sculptor
- 1481: Sano di Pietro – early Italian Renaissance painter from Siena
- 1480: Vecchietta – Siennese painter
- 1480: Simone Papa the Elder – Italian painter of the Renaissance period
- 1480: Joos van Wassenhove – Early Netherlandish painter who later worked in Italy
- 1480: Lin Liang – Chinese painter of plum, flower, and fruit works during the Ming dynasty
- 1480: Antonio Vivarini - Italian painter of the Vivarini family of painters