1450s in art

The decade of the 1450s in art involved many significant events, especially in sculpture.

Events

• 1453: Piero della Francesca begins work on the Legenda della Vera Croce at the church of San Francesco, Arezzo

Painting

• Jean Fouquet – Melun Diptych

Sculpture

• 1450: Donatello completes "Equestrian Monument of Gattamelata" (1445–1450), Piazza del Santo, Padua.
• 1455: Donatello, Mary Magdalene" (c. 1455), Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence.

Births

• 1450 Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch painter (d. 1516)
• 1450: Ludovico Brea – Italian painter active primarily in Genoa (d. 1523)
• 1450: Bartolomeo Montagna – Italian painter and architect who worked in Vicenza and Venice (d. 1523)
• 1450: Francesco Raibolini known as Francesco Francia, Bolognese painter and medalist (d. 1517)
• 1450: Pedro Berruguete – Spanish painter (d. 1504)
• 1450: Bartholomäus Zeitblom – German painter and the chief master of the school of Ulm (d. 1519)
• 1450/1460: Jan Joest – Dutch painter (d. 1519)
• 1450: Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād – painter of Persian miniatures (d. 1535)
• 1452: Pietro del Donzello – Italian painter (d. 1509)
• 1452: April 15 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, geometer, scientist, mathematician, musician and painter (d. 1519)
• 1452: Davide Ghirlandaio – Italian painter and mosaicist (d. 1525)
• 1454: Pinturicchio – Italian painter of the Renaissance (d. 1513)
• 1455: Ugo da Carpi – Italian painter and printmaker who worked in woodcut (d. 1523)
• 1455: Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis – Italian Renaissance painter from Milan (d. 1508)
• 1455: Adam Kraft – German sculptor and master builder of the late Gothic period (d. 1509)
• 1455: Peter Vischer the Elder – German sculptor (d. 1529)
• 1455: Francesco Bonsignori – Italian painter (d. 1519)
• 1456: Bartolomeo Suardi – Italian painter and architect (d. 1530)
• 1457: Filippino Lippi, Tuscan painter (d. 1504)
• 1458: Pietro di Francesco degli Orioli – sculptor (d. 1496)
• 1458: Antonio Lombardo – Italian sculptor (d. 1516)
• 1459: Lorenzo di Credi – Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1537)
• 1459: Cima da Conegliano – Italian Renaissance painter (d. 1517)
• 1459: Wu Wei – Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (d. 1508)
• 1459/1460: Benedetto Buglioni – Italian sculptor in glazed terracotta (d. 1521)

Deaths

• 1457: Rossello di Jacopo Franchi – Italian painter (b. 1376)
• February 18, 1455 – Fra Angelico – Italian painter (b. 1395)
• December 1, 1455 – Lorenzo Ghiberti – Italian artist of the early Renaissance best known for works in sculpture and metalworking (b. 1378)
• 1455: Pisanello – painter of the early Italian Renaissance and Quattrocento (b. 1395)
• 1453: Parri Spinelli – Italian (Tuscan) painter of the early renaissance (b. 1387)
• 1452: Bicci di Lorenzo – Italian painter and sculptor, active in Florence (b. 1373)
• 1452: Bernardo Martorell – Spanish painter, working in an Early Renaissance style (b. 1400)
• 1451: Piero di Niccolo Lamberti – Italian sculptor (b. 1393)
• 1450: Sassetta – Italian painter (b. 1392)
• 1450: Xie Huan – Chinese painter of the early Ming Dynasty (d. 1370)