1450s in art

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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, Left side of the Melun Diptych, Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels (c.1450)
Wood, 93 x 85 cm, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp.

See also: Category:1450s paintings

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

Deaths

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