1490s in art

The decade of the 1490s in art involved some significant events.

Events

The Renaissance is in full swing during the 1490s, and Leonardo da Vinci is painting in realistic, chiaroscuro style. In music, many new musical styles are being created, including the motet and madrigal, replacing an emphasis on chanting with polyphony and homophony. Christopher Columbus's explorations of the New World captivates the artistic imagination of both artists and the public.
Image:Leonardo da Vinci - The Last Supper.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, 1498, Santa Maria delle Grazie (Milan)

1490 – July 13: John of Kastav finishes a cycle of frescoes in the Holy Trinity Church, Hrastovlje.
1495: Donatello's bronze Judith and Holofernes is moved from the Palazzo Medici Riccardi to the Piazza della Signoria, beside the main door of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.
1496: Juan de Flandes joins the court of Isabella I of Castile.

Sculptures

1491: ** Michelangelo Madonna of the stairs
1492:** Michelangelo Battle of the Centaurs
1494 –
* January – Following heavy snowfall in Florence, the Italian sculptor Michelangelo was commissioned by the Medicis to build a snowman.
* Tilman Riemenschneider carves the Seated Bishop
1496: The bronze equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni designed by Andrea del Verrocchio and completed by Alessandro Leopardi is unveiled in Venice
1497 Michelangelo Bacchus marble
1498-1499: Michelangelo carves his Pietà for St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, in Carrara marble

Paintings

c. 1486-1490: Domenico Ghirlandaio paints the fresco Birth of St. Mary in the Tornabuoni Chapel of the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella in Florence
1490s: Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio and Marco d'Oggiono paint a Resurrection
1490:
* Leonardo da Vinci completes painting the portrait Lady with an Ermine and paints Portrait of a Musician
* Cima da Conegliano paints his Sacred Conversation now in Milan
c. 1490
* Giovanni Bellini paints two Sacred Conversations and a presumed portrait of Bartolomeo d'Alviano
* Albrecht Dürer paints a Portrait Diptych of Dürer's Parents
* Cosmè Tura completes painting St Anthony of Padua
c. 1490-1497: Leonardo da Vinci or one of his school paints La belle ferronnière
c. 1490-1498, probably c. 1495: Gerard David paints Triptych of the Sedano family
c. 1490-1500: Giovanni Bellini paints the Holy Allegory and Portrait of a Gentleman
c. 1490-1504: Giovanni Bellini paints four Allegories
1492: Andrea Mantegna paints Descent Into Limbo a depiction of Christ descending into limbo to liberate the souls of the righteous
1493
* Albrecht Dürer paints Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle, a self-portrait at the age of 22
* Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis probably paints at least one portrait of Bianca Maria Sforza
c. 1493-1495: A version of Bernt Notke's Danse Macabre is installed in St. Nicholas Church, Tallinn
c. 1494: Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād paints The Caliph Harun al-Rashid Visits the Turkish Bath, from a copy of the 12th century Khamsa of Nizami Ganjavi, Herat, Afghanistan
1495
* Cima da Conegliano paints Madonna and Child
* Giovanni Donato da Montorfano paints The Crucifixion
* Sandro Botticelli paints Calumny of Apelles
* Sesshū Tōyō produces Haboku sansui
c. 1495
* Pedro Berruguete paints Saint Dominic Presiding over an Auto-da-fe
* Jan Provoost paints a Crucifixion
c. 1495-1496: Leonardo da Vinci probably draws the Portrait of a Young Fiancée for the Sforziada
c. 1495-1500: Hieronymus Bosch paints Christ Crowned with Thorns
c. 1495 and beyond: followers of Martin Schongauer paint the colossal Buhl Altarpiece
1496
* An anonymous portrait of Jacob Obrecht is painted
* Cima da Conegliano paints Madonna and Child
c. 1496
* Gentile Bellini paints Procession in St. Mark's Square as one of the commissions for the grand hall of the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista in Venice.
* Vittore Carpaccio paints Miracle of the Relic of the Cross at the Ponte di Rialto as one of the commissions for the grand hall of the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista in Venice.
* Juan de Flandes paints Portrait of an Infanta and Herodia's Revenge
c. 1496-1497: Sandro Botticelli paints Michael Tarchaniota Marullus
1496-1498: Cima da Conegliano paints Madonna and Child, Rest on the Flight into Egypt, Madonna of the Orange Tree and Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
1497
* Albrecht Dürer paints Portrait of Dürer's Father at 70
* Andrea Mantegna paints Parnassus and the Trivulzio Madonna
* Pietro Perugino paints the Fano Altarpiece and The Baptism of Christ
c. 1497-1498
* Fra Bartolomeo paints Portrait of Girolamo Savonarola
* Vittore Carpaccio paints the Legend of Saint Ursula series for the Scuola di Sant'Orsola in Venice
1498
* Gerard David paints the diptych The Judgement of Cambyses
* Albrecht Dürer paints a Self-Portrait at the age of 26 and the Haller Madonna
* Leonardo da Vinci completes painting The Last Supper
c. 1498: Creation of Hours of Louis XII begins
1499: Giovanni di Niccolò Mansueti paints The Arrest of Saint Mark in the Synagogue
c. 1499: Piero di Cosimo paints ''The Discovery of Honey by Bacchus''

Engravings

1494: Albrecht Dürer - illustrations to Ship of Fools
c. 1495: Albrecht Dürer - The Holy Family with the Dragonfly
1497: Albrecht Dürer - The Four Witches
c. 1498: Albrecht Dürer
* Apocalypse
* Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon
* The Temptation of the Idler or The Dream of the Doctor
c. 1498–1500: Albrecht Dürer - ''The Sea Monster''

Births

1490: Giovanni Cariani - Italian painter of the high-Renaissance
1490: Peter Dell the Elder – German sculptor
1490: Agostino Veneziano – Italian engraver
1490: Giovanni Maria Francesco Rondani – Italian painter of the Parmesan school of painting
1490: Gregório Lopes – Renaissance painter from Portugal
1490: Hans Dürer – German Renaissance painter, illustrator, and engraver
1490: Peter Flötner - German designer, sculptor, and printmaker
1490: Lucas Gassel, Flemish painter
1490: Adriaen Isenbrandt – Flemish painter
1490: Battista Dossi – Italian painter who belonged to the Ferrara School of Painting
1490: Dosso Dossi – Italian Renaissance painter who belonged to the Ferrara School of Painting
1490: Vincenzo Pagani - Italian painter
1490: Valentin Bousch - French master glass artist and a glass painter
1490: Fra Paolo da Pistoia – Italian painter and Dominican friar
1490: Diego Siloe – Spanish Renaissance architect and sculptor
1490: Hans Springinklee - German wood-engraver
1490: Marinus van Reymerswaele – Dutch Renaissance painter
1490: Stanisław Samostrzelnik – Polish Renaissance painter and Cistercian monk
1490/1491: Altobello Melone – Italian painter of the Renaissance
1490/1495: Lucas Horenbout – Flemish artist and court miniaturist
1491: Francesco Melzi – Italian painter and pupil of Leonardo da Vinci
1492: Simone Mosca - Italian sculptor
1492: Domenico Puligo - painter from Florence
1492: Michelangelo Anselmi – Italian Renaissance-Mannerism painter active mostly in Parma
1492/1495: Polidoro da Caravaggio – Italian early Renaissance painter
1493: Bartolommeo Bandinelli - Florentine sculptor
1493: Barthel Bruyn the Elder - German painter
1493: Marco Dente – Italian engraver of the Renaissance
1494: Francesco Bacchiacca - Florentine Mannerist painter
1494: Giovanni Bernardi - Italian gem engraver and medalist
1494: Santi Buglioni - Italian sculptor
1494: Qiu Ying – Chinese painter who specialized in the gongbi brush technique
1494: Lucas van Leyden – Dutch engraver and painter
1494: Rosso Fiorentino – Italian Mannerist painter, in oil and fresco
1494: Ambrosius Holbein – German and Swiss artist in painting, drawing and printmaking
1494: Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da Imola – Italian painter and draftsman
1494: Pontormo – Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine school
1495: Antonio Labacco - Italian architect, engraver, and writer
1495: Jan van Scorel – Dutch painter credited with the introduction of High Italian Renaissance art to the Netherlands
1495: Francesco Signorelli - Italian Renaissance painter
1495: Paris Bordone - Venetian painter
1495: Scipione Sacco – Italian painter of the Renaissance active in Cesena
1495: Hans Weiditz - German Renaissance woodcut artist
1496: Dirck Jacobsz – Dutch Renaissance painter
1496: Lu Zhi – Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty
1497: Hans Holbein the Younger – German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style
1498: Giulio Bonasone - Italian painter and engraver
1498: Giulio Clovio – Renaissance illuminator, miniaturist, and painter, born in Croatia, who worked in Renaissance Italy
1498: Diego de Arroyo - Spanish miniature painter
1498: Moretto da Brescia – Italian Renaissance painter of Brescia and Venice
1498: Lancelot Blondeel - Bruges-based Flemish painter
1498: Anthony Toto - Italian painter and architect
1498: Maarten van Heemskerck – Dutch portrait and religious painter
1499: Hans Asper - Swiss painter
1499: Michael Coxcie - painter
1499: Giulio Romano – Italian painter and architect
1499: Jan van Calcar – Netherlandish-born Italian painter, pupil of Titian

Deaths

1491: Martin Schongauer – German engraver and painter
1491: Dieric Bouts the Younger - Belgian painter of the Early Netherlandish painting era
1491: Neri di Bicci, painter in Florence
1491: Domenico di Michelino – Italian painter of the Florentine school
1491: Bertoldo di Giovanni – sculptor
October 12, 1492: Piero della Francesca – painter
1492: Domenico Gagini – Italian sculptor
1492: Lucas Moser - German Late-Gothic painter
1492: Andreas Ritzos - Greek icons painter
1493: Jean Colombe - French miniature painter and illuminator of manuscripts
1493: Simone Ferrucci - Italian sculptor
1493: Jacopo da Sellaio – Italian painter from the Florentine School
January 11, 1494: Domenico Ghirlandaio – Florentine painter
March 2, 1494: Niccolò dell'Arca - Italian sculptor
1494: Melozzo da Forlì – Italian fresco painter and member of the Forlì painting school
1494: Ludwig Schongauer, German painter
1494: Giovanni Santi – Italian painter, poet, and father of Raphael
1494: Hans Memling – Early Netherlandish painter
1495: Carlo Crivelli – Italian Renaissance painter of conservative Late Gothic decorative sensibility
1495: Geertgen tot Sint Jans – Early Netherlandish painter from the northern Low Countries
1495: Matteo di Giovanni - Italian Renaissance artist from the Sienese School
1495: Antoine Le Moiturier - French sculptor
1495: Cosmè Tura – Italian early-Renaissance painter and one of the founders of the School of Ferrara
1495/1496: Pietro Vannini – Italian artist and silversmith
1495/1496: Antonio Missaglia – Italian armourer
1496: Pietro di Francesco degli Orioli – sculptor
1496: Benedetto Bonfigli - Italian painter active around Umbria
1496: Piero del Pollaiuolo – painter
1497: Heinrich Bichler – Swiss painter
1497: Benedetto da Maiano – sculptor
1497: Benozzo Gozzoli – Italian Renaissance painter from Florence
February 4, 1498: Antonio del Pollaiuolo – painter
1498: Domenico Rosselli – sculptor
1498: Bartolomé Bermejo – Spanish painter who adopted Dutch painting techniques
1498: Fra Diamante – Italian fresco painter
1498: Michael Pacher – Austrian Tyrolean painter and sculptor
1498: Marco Zoppo - Italian painter active mainly in Bologna
1498: Juan de la Abadía - Spanish painter in the gothic Spanish-Flemish style
1499: Alesso Baldovinetti – painter
1499: Adriano Fiorentino - Italian medallist and sculptor