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1430s . 1440s in art . 1450s

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The decade of the 1440s in art involved some significant events.

Events

• 1440: Donatello completes his series of sculptures for the Cathedral of Prato.
• 1440: Luca della Robbia invents new techniques in terra cotta sculpting (approximate date).
• 1440: Pisanello moves to Milan.
• 1440: Roger van der Weyden begins his travels through the Italian city-states.

Paintings

Filippo Lippi - The Annunciation with two Kneeling Donors

See also: Category:1440s paintings

• Fra Angelico - San Marco frescoes (approximate date)
• Jean Fouquet - Portrait of Pope Eugene IV (approximate date)
• Filippo Lippi - The Annunciation with two Kneeling Donors (approximate date)
• Sassetta - The Meeting of St. Anthony and St. Paul (approximate date)
• Paolo Uccello - frescoes in the cloisters of the Basilica di Santa Maria Novella (approximate date)
• Roger van der Weyden - Descent from the Cross and The Exhumation of Saint Hubert
• Domenico Veneziano - The Carnesecchi Tabernacle
• Robert Campin - The Annunciation

Births

• 1440: Jacopo de' Barbari - Italian painter and printmaker (d. 1516)
• 1440: Giovanni Dalmata, Dalmatian sculptor (d. 1514)
• 1440: Fiorenzo di Lorenzo - Italian painter of the Umbrian school (d. 1522)
• 1440: Ludwig Schongauer - German painter (d. ca.1494)
• 1440: Hugo van der Goes - Flemish painter (d. 1482)
• 1440: Bartolomé Bermejo - Spanish painter who adopted Dutch painting techniques (d. 1498)
• 1440: Fernando Gallego - Spanish painter brought up in an age of gothic style (d. 1507)
• 1442: Benedetto da Maiano - sculptor (d. 1497)
• 1442: Jacopo da Sellaio - Italian painter from the Florentine School (d. 1493)
• 1443: Piero del Pollaiolo - painter (d. 1496)
• 1445: Francesco Rosselli - Italian miniature painter, engraver of maps and old master prints (d. 1513)
• 1445: Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento) (d. 1510)
• 1445: Luca Signorelli - Italian Renaissance painter, draughtsman, especially in his use of foreshortening (d. 1523)
• 1445/1450: Veit Stoss - Engraver, painter, and sculptor of the late Gothic sculpture in Germany (d. 1533)
• 1446: Antonio del Rincón - Spanish painter and artist (d. 1500)
• 1446: Pietro Perugino - Italian painter of the Umbrian school during the High Renaissance (d. 1524)
• 1446: Alvise Vivarini - Italian painter (d. 1502)
• 1447: Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi - Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1500)
• 1448: Martin Schongauer - German engraver and painter (d. 1491)
• 1449: Lazzaro Bastiani - Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in Venice (d. 1512)
• 1449: Domenico Ghirlandaio - painter (d. 1494)
• 1449: Domenico Gagini - Italian sculptor (d. 1492)

Deaths

• 1440: Cennino D'Andrea Cennini, Florentine painter (b. 1370)
• 1441: Jan van Eyck, Flemish painter - Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges and considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century (b. 1385)
• 1444: Robert Campin - considered the first great master of Early Netherlandish painting (b. 1375)
• 1445: Henri Bellechose - painter from the South Netherlands (b. unknown)
• 1445: Michelino Molinari da Besozzo - Italian painter (b. 1385)
• 1446: Conrad Witz - German painter, active mainly in Basel, Switzerland (b. 1398)
• 1447: Masolino da Panicale - Italian painter (b. 1383)