1490s in art
The decade of the 1490s in art involved some significant events.
Events
The Renaissance is in full swing during the 1490s, and Leonardo da Vinci is painting in realistic, chiaroscuro style. In music, many new musical styles were being created, including the motet and madrigal, replacing an emphasis on chanting (and simple melodies) with polyphony and homophony. Christopher Columbus's explorations of the New World captivates the artistic imagination of both artists and the public.
Sculptures
Paintings
Engravings
Births
- 1490: Peter Dell the Elder – German sculptor (d. 1552)
- 1490: Agostino Musi – Italian engraver (d. 1540)
- 1490: Giovanni Maria Francesco Rondani – Italian painter of the Parmesan school of painting (d. 1550)
- 1490: Gregório Lopes – Renaissance painter from Portugal (d. 1550)
- 1490: Hans Dürer – German Renaissance painter, illustrator, and engraver
- 1490: Adriaen Isenbrandt – Flemish painter (d. 1538)
- 1490: Battista Dossi – Italian painter who belonged to the Ferrara School of Painting (d. 1548)
- 1490: Dosso Dossi – Italian Renaissance painter who belonged to the Ferrara School of Painting (d. 1542)
- 1490: Fra Paolo da Pistoia – Italian painter and Dominican monk (d. 1547)
- 1490: Diego Siloe – Spanish Renaissance architect and sculptor (d. 1563)
- 1490: Marinus van Reymerswaele – Dutch Renaissance painter (d. 1546)
- 1490: Stanisław Samostrzelnik – Polish Renaissance painter and Cisterian monk (d. 1541)
- 1490/1491: Altobello Melone – Italian painter of the Renaissance (d. 1543)
- 1490/1495: Lucas Horenbout – Flemish artist and court miniaturist (d. 1544)
- 1491: Francesco Melzi – Italian painter and pupil of Leonardo da Vinci (d. 1570)
- 1492: Michelangelo Anselmi – Italian Renaissance-Mannerism painter active mostly in Parma (d. 1554)
- 1492/1495: Polidoro da Caravaggio – Italian early Renaissance painter (d. 1543)
- 1493: Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Florentine sculptor (d. 1560)
- 1493: Barthel Bruyn the Elder, German painter (d. 1555)
- 1493: Marco Dente – Italian engraver of the Renaissance (d. unknown)
- 1494: Qiu Ying – Chinese painter who specialized in the gongbi brush technique (d. 1552)
- 1494: Lucas van Leyden – Dutch engraver and painter (d. 1533)
- 1494: Rosso Fiorentino – Italian Mannerist painter, in oil and fresco (d. 1540)
- 1494: Ambrosius Holbein – German and Swiss artist in painting, drawing and printmaking (d. 1519)
- 1494: Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da Imola – Italian painter and draftsman (d. 1550)
- 1494: Pontormo – Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine school (d. 1557)
- 1495: Jan van Scorel – Dutch painter credited with the introduction of High Italian Renaissance art to the Netherlands (d. 1562)
- 1495: Paris Bordone, Venetian painter (d. 1570)
- 1495: Scipione Sacco – Italian painter of the Renaissance active in Cesena (d. 1558)
- 1496: Dirck Jacobsz – Dutch Renaissance painter (d. 1567)
- 1496: Lu Zhi – Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty (d. 1576)
- 1497: Hans Holbein the Younger – German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style (d. 1543)
- 1498: Giulio Clovio – Renaissance illuminator, miniaturist, and painter, born in Croatia, who worked in Renaissance Italy (d. 1578)
- 1498: Moretto da Brescia – Italian Renaissance painter of Brescia and Venice (d. 1554)
- 1498: Marten Jacobszoon Heemskerk van Veen – Dutch portrait and religious painter (d. 1574)
- 1499: Jan Steven van Calcar – Flemish painter and a pupil of Titian (d. 1545)
- 1499: Hans Asper, Swiss painter (d. 1571)
- 1499: Michael Coxcie, painter (d. 1592)
- 1499: Giulio Romano – Italian painter and architect (d. 1546)
- 1499: Jan van Calcar – Netherlandish-born Italian painter, pupil of Titian (d. 1546)
Deaths