1480s in art

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The decade of the 1480s in art involved some significant events.

Events

Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, 1486, Uffizi, Florence.

Giovanni Bellini, St. Francis in the Desert, c.1480, Frick Collection, New York City

• 1482 – A Milanese Duke commissions Leonardo da Vinci to make an equine statue that would have been the largest in the world. A clay cast is made over sixteen years but the bronze is appropriated for use in cannons and the cast is destroyed when the Duke’s castle falls to French invaders.
• 1487 – Leonardo da Vinci creates his "Vitruvian Man" drawing (approximate date).
• 1488 - Giovanni di Stefano (sculptor) makes floor intarsia showing Hermes Trismegistus, Plato and Marsilio Ficino in west entrance of Siena Cathedral.

Paintings

See also: Category:1480s paintings

• 1480: Carlo Crivelli – Madonna and Child
• 1480: Giovanni Bellini – St. Francis in Ecstasy
• 1482: Sandro Botticelli – Primavera
• 1486: Carlo Crivelli – Annunciation with St. Emidius
• c.1486: Sandro Botticelli – The Birth of Venus

Births

• 1480: Giovanni Francesco Caroto – Italian painter active in Verona (d. 1555/1558)
• 1480: Lorenzo Lotto – Italian painter draughtsman and illustrator (d. 1556)
• 1480: Hans Leonhard Schäufelein – German painter, designer, and wood engraver (d. 1540)
• 1480: Palma il Vecchio – Italian painter of the Venetian school (d. 1528)
• 1480: Marcantonio Raimondi – Italian engraver (d. 1534)
• 1480: Hans Baldung – German Renaissance artist as painter and printmaker in woodcut (d. 1545)
• 1480: Jean Clouet – miniaturist and painter who worked in France during the Renaissance (d. 1541)
• 1480: Nicola Filotesio – Italian painter, architect and sculptor (d. 1547)
• 1480: Joachim Patinir – Flemish Northern Renaissance history and landscape painter (d. 1524)
• 1480: Albrecht Altdorfer – German painter, pioneer of landscape in art (d. 1538)
• 1480: Jerg Ratgeb – German painter (d. 1526)
• 1480: Raimo Epifanio Tesauro – Italian Renaissance painter specializing in frescoes (d. 1511)
• 1480: Jan Wellens de Cock, Flemish painter and draughtsman of the Northern Renaissance (d. 1527)
• 1480/1482: Bernardino Luini – North Italian painter from Leonardo's circle (d. 1532)
• 1480/1485: Girolamo Savoldo – Italian High Renaissance painter (d. 1548)
• 1480/1490: Adriaen Isenbrandt – Flemish Northern Renaissance painter (d. 1551)
• 1480/1490: Joos van Cleve – Netherlandish painter (d. 1540/1541)
• 1480/1490: Ortolano Ferrarese – Italian painter of the Ferrara School (d. 1525)
• 1480: Chen Daofu – Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty (d. 1544)
• 1481: Baldassare Peruzzi – Italian architect and painter (d. 1537)
• 1481: Benedetto Montagna – Italian engraver (d. 1555/1558)
• 1481: Benvenuto Tisi (il Garofalo) – Late-Renaissance-Mannerist Italian painter of the School of Ferrara (d. 1559)
• 1482: Richard Aertsz – Dutch historical painter (d. 1577)
• 1482: Giulio Campagnola – Italian engraver and painter, invented the stipple technique in engraving (d. 1515)
• 1482: Franciabigio – Italian painter of the Florentine Renaissance (d. 1525)
• 1483: Raphael – Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance (d. 1520)
• 1483: Chén Chún – Chinese artist specializing in "ink and wash" paintings (d. 1544)
• 1483: Agostino Busti – High Renaissance Italian sculptor (d. 1548)
• 1483: Il Pordenone – Italian painter of the Venetian school, active during the Renaissance (d. 1539)
• 1483: Simon Bening – miniature painter of the Ghent-Bruges school (d. 1561)
• 1484: Niklaus Manuel – Swiss dramaturg, painter, graphic artist and politician (d. 1530)
• 1485: Titian – leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance (d. 1576)
• 1485: Urs Graf – Swiss Renaissance painter and printmaker of woodcuts, etchings and engravings (d. c.1529)
• 1485: Sebastiano del Piombo (byname of Sebastiano Luciani) – Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter, famous for his combination of the colors of the Venetian school and the monumental forms of the Roman school (d. 1547)
• 1485: Francesco Vecellio – Venetian painter of the early Renaissance, best known as the elder brother of the painter Titian (d. 1560)
• 1485: Jean Duvet – French Renaissance goldsmith and engraver (d. 1562)
• 1485: Wolf Huber – Austrian painter, printmaker, and architect, a leading member of the Danube School (d. 1553)
• 1485: Girolamo Romanino, Italian painter (d. 1566)
• 1485: Jean Juste – Italian sculptor (d. 1549)
• 1485: Agostino Marti - Italian painter from Lucca (d. 1537)
• 1485: Antonio Semini – Italian painter active in his native Genoa (d. 1547)
• 1486: Cavazzola – Italian painter active mainly in his hometown of Verona (b. 1522)
• 1486: Domenico di Pace Beccafumi – Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter (d. 1551)
• 1486: Jacopo Sansovino – Italian sculptor and architect, especially around the Piazza San Marco in Venice (d. 1570)
• 1486: Andrea del Sarto – Italian painter from Florence (d. 1531)
• 1486: Giacomo Francia – Italian engraver (d. 1557)
• 1487: Francesco Xanto Avelli – Italian ceramicist (d. 1542)
• 1487: Andrea Sabbatini – Italian painter of the Renaissance (d. 1530)
• 1487-1491: Bernard van Orley – Flemish Northern Renaissance painter and draughtsman (d. 1541)
• 1488: Alonso Berruguete – Spanish painter, sculptor and architect (d. 1561)
• 1488: Xie Shichen – Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (d. unknown)
• 1489: Antonio da Correggio – painter of the Parma school of the Italian Renaissance (d. 1534)

Deaths

• 1489: Simon Marmion – Netherlandish painter (b. 1425)
• 1488: Andrea del Verrocchio, influential Italian sculptor, goldsmith and painter who worked at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence (b. 1435)
• 1486: Nicolas Froment – French painter (b. 1435)
• 1485: Shingei – Japanese painter and artist in the Muromachi period (b. 1431)
• 1484: Mino da Fiesole – Italian sculptor from Tuscany (b. 1429)
• 1482: Hugo van der Goes, Flemish painter (b. 1440)
• 1482: Giovanni di Paolo – Italian painter and illustrator of manuscripts (b. 1399/1403)
• 1482: Luca della Robbia – Italian sculptor from Florence, noted for his terracotta roundels (b. 1400)
• 1481: Jean Fouquet – French painter, a master of both panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature (d. 1420)
• 1481: Agostino di Duccio – Italian early Renaissance sculptor (b. 1418)
• 1481: Sano di Pietro – an early Italian Renaissance painter from Siena, (d. 1406)
• 1480: Vecchietta – Siennese painter (b. 1410)
• 1480: Simone Pope the Elder – Italian painter of the Renaissance period (b. 1430)
• 1480: Joos van Wassenhove – Early Netherlandish painter who later worked in Italy (b. 1410)
• 1480: Lin Liang – Chinese painter of plum, flower, and fruit works during the Ming Dynasty (b. 1416)