1400s in art

Works

c.1400: Miniaturist Jacquemart de Hesdin paints The Carrying of the Cross
1401: Commission to design bronze doors for the Florence Baptistery won by Lorenzo Ghiberti
1405: Andrei Rublev paints icons and frescoes for the Cathedral of the Annunciation, Moscow, the first record of his work
1408: Glass painter John Thornton of Coventry completes York Minster's east window in England, the world’s largest expanse of medieval glass
1408: Donatello commissioned to sculpt a marble David for Florence Cathedral, his first significant commission

Births

1400: Bernardo Martorell – Spanish painter, working in a late gothic style (died 1452)
1400: Luca della Robbia – Italian sculptor from Florence, noted for his terracotta roundels (died 1482)
1400: Filarete – Florentine Renaissance architect, sculptor and architectural theorist (died 1469)
1401: Masaccio – painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance (died 1428)
1402: Simone di Nanni Ferrucci – Italian sculptor of the Ferrucci family of artists (died unknown)
1402: Marco del Buono – Italian painter and woodworker (died 1489)
1403: Dello di Niccolò Delli – Italian sculptor and painter from Florence (died 1470)
1404: Jacques Daret – Early Netherlandish painter (died 1470)
1404: Leone Battista Alberti – Italian author whose treatises on painting and architecture are hailed as the founding texts of a new form of art (died 1472)
1405: Stefano d'Antonio di Vanni – Italian Renaissance painter (died 1483)
1406: Filippo Lippi – Italian painter of the Italian Quattrocento (15th century) school (died 1469)
1406: Sano di Pietro – early Italian Renaissance painter from Siena (died 1481)
1409: Liu Jue – Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming dynasty (died 1472)
1400–1410: Konrad Witz – German painter, especially of altarpieces (died 1445/1446)

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