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1440s in art
Summary
The decade of the 1440s in art involved some significant events.
1440: Donatello completes his series of sculptures for Prato Cathedral.
1440: Pisanello moves to Milan.
1440: Luca della Robbia invents new techniques in terra cotta sculpting at about this date.
1440: Rogier van der Weyden begins his travels through the Italian city-states.
1445: Fra Angelico is summoned by the Pope to paint frescoes in the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament (destroyed) in St. Peter's Basilica.
1445: Piero della Francesca is commissioned by the Compagnia della Misericordia in Sansepolcro to paint the Madonna della Misericordia.
1448: Giovanni d'Alemagna the elder, Antonio Vivarini, Niccolò Pizzolo and Andrea Mantegna are commissioned to decorate the Ovetari Chapel of the Church of the Eremitani in Padua.
Anonymous – The Triumph of Death (c.1446) (Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo)
Fra Angelico – Frescoes in San Marco, Florence, notably the Crucifixion in the Capitular Hall (completed 1442), and the San Marco Altarpiece (completed c.1443)
Fra Angelico and assistants – Frescoes in Niccoline Chapel of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican City (1447-1451)
Hans Bornemann – (after 1444)
Dieric Bouts – Infancy Triptych (c.1445) (Museo del Prado)
Petrus Christus
Lamentation (Pietà) (c.1444)
Portrait of a Carthusian (1446)
Niccolò Antonio Colantonio – Delivery of the Franciscan Rule (c.1445)
Lluís Dalmau
Virgin and Child (1445)
Virgin of the Consellers (1443-1445)
Andrea del Castagno – Frescoes
Death of the Virgin (1442–1443) (St Mark's Basilica, Venice)
San Tarasio Chapel, San Zaccaria, Venice (1442)
The Last Supper (1445-1450) and others (Sant'Apollonia, Florence)
Piero della Francesca
The Baptism of Christ (completed c.1448-1450)
Frescoes in Castello Estense and church of Sant'Andrea, Ferrara (1449; now lost)
Barthélemy d'Eyck (attributed) – Aix Annunciation (1443-1445)
Giovanni di Paolo
(1445)
Illuminations of Dante's Paradiso (c.1444-1450)
Jean Fouquet – Portrait of Pope Eugene IV (before 1447)
Jost Haller − Tempelhof Altarpiece (ca.
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