1430s in art

The decade of the 1430s in art involved some significant events.

Events

• 1430: Considered end of Medieval art art period
• 1430: First use of optical methods in the creation of art
• 1438-1440: Donatello completes his series of sculptures for the Cathedral of Prato.

Works

Paintings

• 1425–1430: Masolino da Panicale – The Annunciation (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
• c.1430–1432: Fra Angelico – The Annunciation (for Convent of San Domenico, Fiesole; now Museo del Prado, Madrid)
• 1432: Jan van Eyck – Ghent Altarpiece
• 1432–1434: Fra Angelico – Annunciation of Cortona completed in Florence
• 1434: Jan van Eyck – Arnolfini portrait
• c.1434–1436: Jan van Eyck – The Annunciation (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
• c.1435: Konrad Witz – Heilspiegel Altarpiece and St. Christopher
• c.1437-1446: Fra Angelico – The Annunciation (San Marco, Florence)

Sculpture

• c.1425–1466: Donatello – David (bronze; Bargello, Florence)
• c.1435: Lorenzo Ghiberti – Gates of Paradise (bronze panels; doors of Florence Baptistery)

Births

• 1430: Desiderio da Settignano – Italian sculptor (d. 1464)
• 1430: Francesco Laurana – Dalmatian-born sculptor and medallist (d. 1502)
• 1430: Pier Antonio Mezzastris – Italian painter of the Umbrian school of painting (d. 1506)
• 1430: Fra Diamante – Italian fresco painter (d. 1498)
• 1430: Carlo Crivelli – Italian Renaissance painter of conservative Late Gothic decorative sensibility (d. 1495)
• 1430: Antonello da Messina – Sicilian painter (d. 1479)
• 1430: Hans Memling – Early Netherlandish painter (d. 1494)
• 1430: Giovanni Bellini – Italian painter (d. 1516)
• 1430: Simone Pope the Elder – Italian painter (d. 1480)
• 1430: Cosimo Tura – Italian painter and one of the founders of the School of Ferrara (d. 1495)
• 1431: Shingei – Japanese painter and artist of the Muromachi period (d. 1485)
• 1431: Andrea Mantegna – Italian Renaissance artist (d. 1506)
• 1434: Kanō Masanobu – chief painter of the Ashikaga shogunate and founder of the Kanō school of painting (d. 1530)
• 1434: Tosa Mitsunobu – Japanese painter and founder of the Tosa school of painting (d. 1525)
• 1434: Michael Wolgemut – German painter and printmaker (d. 1519)
• 1435: Andrea del Verrocchio, influential Italian sculptor, goldsmith and painter who worked at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence (d. 1488)
• 1435: Pietro Lombardo – Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1515)
• 1435: Michael Pacher – Austrian Tyrolean painter and sculptor (d. 1498)
• 1435: Andrea della Robbia – Italian sculptor, especially in ceramics (d. 1525)
• 1435: Nicolas Froment – French painter (d. 1486)
• 1435: Bernt Notke – German painter and sculptor (d. 1508/1509)
• 1435: Giovanni Santi – Italian painter, poet, and father of Raphael (d. 1494)
• 1435: Jan Polack – Polish-born German painter (d. 1519)
• 1435/1440: Bertoldo di Giovanni – sculptor (d. 1491)
• 1436: Benvenuto di Giovanni – Italian artist, manuscripts (d. 1509/1517)
• 1436: Ni Duan – Imperial Chinese painter of people and landscapes (d. 1505)
• 1438: Melozzo da Forlì – Italian fresco painter and member of the Forlì painting school (d. 1494)
• 1439: Domenico Rosselli – sculptor (d. 1498)
• 1439: Francesco di Giorgio – Italian painter of the Sienese School, a sculptor, an architect and theorist, and a military engineer (d. 1502)

Deaths

• 1430: Andrei Rublev – the greatest medieval Russian iconographer (painter of Orthodox icons and frescoes) (b. 1360-1370)
• 1430: Daniil Chyorny – Russian iconographer (b. 1360)
• 1431: Li Zai – Chinese painter of landscapes and human figures during the Ming Dynasty (b. unknown)
• 1435: Zhu Zhanji, Xuande Emperor – Emperor of China who was also a painter, especially of animals (b. 1398)
• 1438: Jacopo della Quercia – Italian sculptor of the Italian Renaissance (d. 1374)