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 (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)