1170s in art

The decade of the 1170s in art involved some significant events.

Events

• 1171: End of the Fatimid art period in Egypt and North Africa

Works

• 1178: Lin Tinggui and Zhou Jichang complete The Five Hundred Luohan
• 1178: Benedetto Antelami completes Deposition
• 1176: Unkei sculpts Dainichi Nyorai at Enjō-ji in Nara
• 1173–1176: Zhang Shengwen completes The Sakyamuni Buddha
• 1170: Unknown artist completes Limestone Sculpture of the Old Testament Priest Aaron
• 1170: Artist(s) complete the Hunterian Psalter illuminated manuscript

Births

• 1178: Wuzhun Shifan – Chinese painter, calligrapher, and prominent Zen Buddhist monk (died 1279)
• 1176: Fujiwara Nobuzane – Japanese nise-e painter (died 1265)
• 1174: Liu Songnian – Song dynasty Chinese artist (died 1224)
• 1173: Tankei – Japanese sculptor of the Kei school of sculptors (died 1256)

Deaths

• 1179: Hildegard of Bingen – German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary, polymath, poet, and producer of miniature Illuminations (born 1098)

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