1460s in art

The decade of the 1460s in art involved some significant events.

Events

Paintings

• 1469: Petrus Christus paints Portrait of a Lady.
• 1467: Shen Zhou paints Lofty Mt. Lu
• 1455-1460: Francesco del Cossa – Polyhymnia. Muse of sacred-poetry, sacred hymn, eloquence, agriculture and pantomime
• 1462-1464: Piero della Francesca paints Resurrection

Births

• 1469: Baccio da Montelupo – Italian sculptor (d. 1523)
• 1469: Francesco Granacci – Italian painter of the Renaissance (d. 1543)
• 1469: Timoteo Viti – Italian Renaissance painter (d. 1523)
• 1469: Giovanni della Robbia – Italian Renaissance ceramic artist (d. 1529)
• 1469: Michael Sittow – painter from modern Estonia who was trained in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting (d. 1525/1526)
• 1468: Nunziata d'Antonio – Italian painter, fireworks artist, and bombardier (d. 1525)
• 1468: Cornelis Engelbrechtsen – Dutch painter (d. 1533)
• 1468: Niccolo Rondinelli – Italian painter active mainly in Ravenna (d. 1520)
• 1467: Angelos Pitzamanos – Greek Renaissance painter (d. 1535)
• 1467: Boccaccio Boccaccino – Italian painter of the Emilian school (d. 1525)
• 1467: Pellegrino da San Daniele – Italian painter in the late-Quattrocento and Renaissance styles (d. 1547)
• 1466/1467: Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio – Italian painter of the High Renaissance who worked in the studio of Leonardo da Vinci (d. 1516)
• 1446: Heinrich Bichler – Swiss painter (d. 1497)
• 1466: Bastiano Mainardi Italian painter (d. 1513)
• 1466: Raffaellino del Garbo – Italian painter (d. 1524)
• 1466: Quentin Matsys – Flemish painter (d. 1530)
• 1465: Hans Fries – Swiss painter before the Reformation (d. 1523)
• 1465: Gerard Horenbout – Flemish miniaturist (d. 1541)
• 1465: Geertgen tot Sint Jans – Early Netherlandish painter from the northern Low Countries (d. 1495)
• 1465: Wang E – Chinese landscape painter (d. 1545)
• 1465/1470: Giorgio Andreoli – Italian potter of lusterware (lustro) (d. 1555)
• 1464: Zhang Lu – Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (d. 1538)
• 1464: Desiderio da Settignano – Italian sculptor active during the Renaissance (b. 1430)
• 1462: Cristofano Robetta – Italian engraver (d. 1535)
• 1462: Piero di Cosimo – Florentine painter (d. 1522)
• 1460: Vittore Carpaccio – Italian painter of the Venetian school (d. 1525/1526)
• 1460: Cristoforo Solari – Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1527)
• 1460: Andrea Solari – Italian Renaissance painter (d. 1524)
• 1460: Marco Palmezzano – Italian painter and architect (d. 1539)
• 1460: Gerard David – Early Netherlandish painter known for his brilliant use of color (d. 1523)
• 1460: Domenico Panetti – Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Ferrara (d. 1530)
• 1460: Juan de Flandes – Early Netherlandish painter who was active in Spain (d. 1519)
• 1460: Pellegrino Aretusi – Italian painter specializing in frescoes (d. 1523)
• 1460: Giovanni Donato da Montorfano – Italian painter (d. 1502/1503)
• 1460: Nicolò Brancaleon – Italian painter whose art left a clear influence in Ethiopia (d. 1526)
• 1460: Adam Kraft – German stone sculptor and master builder (d. 1509)
• 1460: Tilman Riemenschneider – German sculptor and woodcarver (d. 1531)
• 1460: Hans Holbein the Elder – German painter (d. 1524)
• 1460: Zhou Chen – Chinese painter in middle Ming Dynasty (d. 1535)
• 1460: Tullio Lombardo – Italian Renaissance sculptor (d. 1532)
• 1460: Benedetto Briosco – Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect active in Lombardy (d. 1514)
• 1460: Vittore Gambello – Italian Renaissance sculptor (d. 1537)
• 1460: Marx Reichlich – Austrian painter of primarily religious scenes (d. 1520)
• 1460: Wilm Dedeke – late gothic painter from Northern Germany (d. 1528)
• 1460: Nikola Božidarević – Croatian painter (d. 1517)
• 1460: Bernardo Zenale – Italian painter and architect (d. 1526)

Deaths

• 1469: Filippo Lippi – Italian painter of the Italian Quattrocento (15th century) school (b. 1406)
• 1467/1468: Matteo di Andrea de' Pasti – Italian medalist (b. 1420)
• 1466: Donatello – early Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence (b. 1386)
• 1466: Enguerrand Quarton, French painter (b. ca.1410)
• 1464: Rogier van der Weyden – one of the greatest of the school of Early Netherlandish painting (b. 1399/1400)
• 1463: Tenshō Shūbun – Japanese painter in the Muromachi period and a Zen Buddhist monk (b. 1414)
• 1462: Dai Jin – founder of the Zhe School of Ming dynasty painting (b. 1388)
• 1462: Hans von Tübingen – Austrian artist (b. 1380)
• 1461: Domenico Veneziano – Italian painter of the early Renaissance (b. 1410)