Overview of the events of the 1480s in art
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
Paintings
1479-81: Ercole de' Roberti – Santa Maria in Porto Altarpiece
1480-90: Sandro Botticelli – The Map of Hell
1480
c.1480
1480-1482: Sandro Botticelli – Temptations of Christ (frescoes in Sistine Chapel , Rome)
1480-1483: Sandro Botticelli – Madonna of the Book
c.1480-1484: Fra Carnevale (or Francesco di Giorgio Martini ) – The Ideal City
c.1480-1485
c.1480-1486: Sandro Botticelli – Portrait of a Young Woman (Simonetta Vespucci?) (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin )
1481: Hans Memling – Christ Giving His Blessing
c.1481-1485: Piero di Cosimo – Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Peter, John the Baptist, Dominic, and Nicholas of Bari (Saint Louis Art Museum )
1482: Sandro Botticelli – Primavera
c.1482: Hans Memling – Annunciation (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
c.1482-1485: Piero di Cosimo – Portraits of Giuliano and Francesco Giamberti da Sangallo (diptych)
c.1483
c.1483-1487 (unfinished) : Leonardo da Vinci (probable) – Portrait of a Musician
1484: Hans Memling – St. Christopher and Saints
c.1485: Hans Memling
c.1485-1488: Sandro Botticelli – The Judgement of Paris
c.1485-1490: Heinrich Lützelmann (probable painter, perhaps identical with "Master of the Drapery Studies") – The Passion of Christ (series of 10 oils for Sainte-Madeleine, Strasbourg )
1486: Carlo Crivelli – The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius
c.1486: Sandro Botticelli – The Birth of Venus
1487: Hans Memling – Diptych of Maarten van Nieuwenhove (Old St. John's Hospital , Bruges )
c.1487-1488: Michelangelo – The Torment of Saint Anthony
1489:
Sandro Botticelli
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Births
1480: Domenico Alfani – Italian painter (died 1553 )
1480: Giovanni Francesco Caroto – Italian painter active in Verona (died 1555/1558 )
1480: Lorenzo Lotto – Italian painter, draughtsman and illustrator (died 1556 )
1480: Hans Leonhard Schäufelein – German painter, designer and wood engraver (died 1540 )
1480: Andrea di Aloigi - Italian painter (died 1521 )
1480: Palma il Vecchio – Italian painter of the Venetian school (died 1528 )
1480: Bartolomé Ordóñez - Spanish sculptor (died 1520 )
1480: Hans Brüggemann - German sculptor (died 1521 )
1480: Marcantonio Raimondi – Italian engraver (died 1534 )
1480: Hans Baldung – German Renaissance artist as painter and printmaker in woodcut (died 1545 )
1480: Jean Clouet – miniaturist and painter working in France during the Renaissance (died 1541 )
1480: Nicola Filotesio – Italian painter, architect and sculptor (died 1547 )
1480: Damià Forment - Spanish sculptor (died 1540 )
1480: Joachim Patinir – Flemish Northern Renaissance history and landscape painter (died 1524 )
1480: Nicola da Urbino - Italian maiolica and ceramicist (died 1540/1547 )
1480: Albrecht Altdorfer – German painter, pioneer of landscape in art (died 1538 )
1480: Erhard Altdorfer - German Early Renaissance printmaker, painter, and architect (died 1561 )
1480: Jerg Ratgeb – German painter (died 1526 )
1480: Jan Rombouts the Elder - Flemish Renaissance painter, glass painter, draftsman, printmaker and glass designer (died 1535 )
1480: Gerino da Pistoia - Italian painter and designer of the Renaissance (died 1529 )
1480: Raimo Epifanio Tesauro – Italian Renaissance painter specializing in frescoes (died 1511 )
1480: Jan Wellens de Cock - Flemish painter and draughtsman of the Northern Renaissance (died 1527 )
1480: Hans Maler zu Schwaz - German painter and portraitist (died 1526/1529 )
c.1480: Benedetto Montagna – Italian engraver and painter (died 1555/1558)
1480/1482: Bernardino Luini – North Italian painter from Leonardo's circle (died 1532 )
1480/1485: Girolamo da Santa Croce - Italian Renaissance painter (died 1556 )
1480/1485: Girolamo Savoldo – Italian High Renaissance painter (died 1548 )
1480/1490: Adriaen Isenbrandt – Flemish Northern Renaissance painter (died 1551 )
1480/1490: Joos van Cleve – Netherlandish painter (died 1540/1541 )
1480/1490: Ortolano Ferrarese – Italian painter of the Ferrara School (died 1525 )
1480/1490: Conrad Meit – German-born sculptor (died 1550/51)
1481: Hans Krafft the Elder , German medallist (died 1542 )
1481: Baldassare Peruzzi – Italian architect and painter (died 1536 )
1481: Benedetto Montagna – Italian engraver (died 1555/1558 )
1481: Benvenuto Tisi (il Garofalo) – Late-Renaissance -Mannerist Italian painter of the School of Ferrara (died 1559 )
1482: Richard Aertsz – Dutch historical painter (died 1577 )
1482: Giulio Campagnola – Italian engraver and painter , invented the stipple technique in engraving (died 1515 )
1482: Franciabigio – Italian painter of the Florentine Renaissance (died 1525 )
1483: Raphael – Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance (died 1520 )
1483: Chén Chún – Chinese artist specializing in "ink and wash" paintings (died 1544 )
1483: Agostino Busti – High Renaissance Italian sculptor (died 1548 )
1483: Il Pordenone – Italian painter of the Venetian school, active during the Renaissance (died 1539 )
1483: Simon Bening – miniature painter of the Ghent-Bruges school (died 1561 )
1484: Niklaus Manuel – Swiss dramaturg, painter , graphic artist and politician (died 1530 )
1484: Giacomo Raibolini , Italian painter (died 1557 )
1485: Titian – leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance (died 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 (died 1547 )
1485: Jost de Negker , Dutch woodcut-maker, printer and publisher (died 1544 )
1485: Francesco Vecellio – Venetian painter of the early Renaissance, best known as the elder brother of the painter Titian (died 1560 )
1485: Jean Duvet – French Renaissance goldsmith and engraver (died 1562 )
1485: Wolf Huber – Austrian painter , printmaker , and architect , a leading member of the Danube School (died 1553 )
1485: Girolamo Romanino , Italian painter (died 1566 )
1485: Jean Juste – Italian sculptor (died 1549 )
1485: Agostino Marti - Italian painter from Lucca (died 1537 )
1485: Étienne Peson - French "primitive" painter (died 1551 )
1485: Antonio Semini – Italian painter active in his native Genoa (died 1547 )
1485: Lambert Barnard - English Renaissance painter (died 1567 )
1486: Paolo Moranda Cavazzola – Italian painter active mainly in his hometown of Verona (died 1522 )
1486: Domenico di Pace Beccafumi – Italian Renaissance -Mannerist painter (died 1551 )
1486: Jacopo Sansovino – Italian sculptor and architect, especially around the Piazza San Marco in Venice (died 1570 )
1486: Andrea del Sarto – Italian painter from Florence (died 1531 )
1486: Giacomo Francia – Italian engraver (died 1557 )
1486: Francesco Torbido - Italian painter (died 1562 )
1487: Francesco Xanto Avelli – Italian ceramicist (died 1542 )
1487: Giulio Raibolini , Italian painter (died 1540 )
1487: Andrea Sabbatini – Italian painter of the Renaissance (died 1530 )
1487-1491: Bernard van Orley – Flemish Northern Renaissance painter and draughtsman (died 1541 )
1487: Bonifazio Veronese - Italian Mannerist painter from Venice (died 1553 )
1488: Alonso Berruguete – Spanish painter, sculptor and architect (died 1561 )
1488: Xie Shichen – Chinese landscape painter during the Ming dynasty (d. unknown )
1488: Girolamo della Robbia , Italian ceramicist (died 1566 )
1489: Antonio da Correggio – painter of the Parma school of the Italian Renaissance (died 1534 )
Deaths
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