1480s in art

The decade of the 1480s in art involved some significant events.

Events

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

Sandro Botticelli
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 – 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