1340s in art

The decade of the 1340s in art involved some significant events.

Paintings

• 1342: Simone Martini - Christ Discovered in the Temple
• 1345: Ni Zan - Six Gentlemen
• 1349: Zhu Derun - Primordial Chaos

Gallery

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  Simone Martini, Christ Discovered in the Temple, 1342
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  Ni Zan, Six Gentlemen, 1345
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  Zhu Derun, Primordial Chaos, 1349

Births

• 1345: Paolo di Giovanni Fei - Italian painter of the Sienese School (died 1411)
• 1340: Theophanes the Greek – Byzantine Greek artist and one of the greatest icon painters, or iconographers, of Muscovite Russia (died 1410)
• 1340: Niccolò di Pietro Gerini – Italian painter of the late Gothic period (died 1414)
• 1340: Claus Sluter – Dutch sculptor (died 1405)

Deaths

• 1349: Ugolino di Nerio – Italian painter most active in Siena (born 1280)
• 1348: Maso di Banco - Italian fresco painter from Florence (born unknown)
• 1348: Ambrogio Lorenzetti – Italian painter of the Sienese school (born 1290)
• 1348: Pietro Lorenzetti – - Italian painter (died 1280)
• 1348: Bernardo Daddi – early Italian renaissance painter and apprentice of Giotto (died 1280)
• 1347: Andrea Pisano – Italian sculptor and architect (born 1290)
• 1344: Simone Martini – Italian painter born in Siena (born 1284)
• 1343: Ke Jiusi – Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Yuan Dynasty (born 1290)