1440s in art

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

• 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)
• Rogier van der Weyden – Descent from the Cross and The Exhumation of Saint Hubert
• Rogier van der Weyden - Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin (AKA Self-portrait as Saint Luke) (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
• 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: Dionisius – head of the Moscow school of icon painters (d. 1502)
• 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: Vittorio Crivelli – Italian painter (d. 1501/1502)
• 1440: Fernando Gallego – Spanish painter brought up in an age of gothic style (d. 1507)
• (b. 1440-1445): Colijn de Coter – early Netherlandish painter who produced mainly altarpieces (d. 1522-1532)
• 1441: Liberale da Verona – Italian painter of the Renaissance period active mainly in Verona (d. 1526)
• 1441: Ali-Shir Nava'i – Central Asian politician, mystic, linguist, painter, and poet (d. 1501)
• 1442: Benedetto da Maiano – sculptor (d. 1497)
• 1442: Jacopo da Sellaio – Italian painter from the Florentine School (d. 1493)
• 1442: Domenico Morone – Italian painter from Verona (d. 1518)
• 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: Ambrogio Foppa, Italian goldsmith, sculptor, and die sinker (d. 1527)
• 1445: Guido Mazzoni – Italian sculptor and painter (d. 1518)
• 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)
• 1447: Giovanni Antonio Amadeo – Italian early Renaissance sculptor[1], architect and engineer (d. 1522)
• 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)
• 1444: Guo Chun – imperial Chinese painter in the early Ming Dynasty (b. 1370)
• 1445: Henri Bellechose – painter from the South Netherlands (b. unknown)
• 1445: Michelino Molinari da Besozzo – Italian painter (b. 1385)
• 1445/1446: Konrad Witz – German painter, especially of altarpieces (b. 1400-1410)
• 1447: Masolino da Panicale – Italian painter (b. 1383)