1080s in art

The decade of the 1080s in art involved some significant events.

Events

• c. 1080–1100: The Master of Daphni makes the mosaic of Christ Pantocrator in the central dome of the katholikon at Daphni Monastery in Greece
• 1081: Komnenian dynasty begins the Comnenian Age of Byzantine art

Paintings

• 1080: Unknown Indian painter – Completion of the Wisdom

Births

• 1085: Zhang Zeduan – Chinese painter during the transitional period from the Northern Song to the Southern Song dynasty (died 1145)
• 1082: Emperor Huizong of Song – Chinese emperor of the Song dynasty who was also a skilled poet, painter, calligrapher, and musician (died 1135)

Deaths

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