1230s in art

The decade of the 1230s in art involved some significant events.

Events

• 1239: First record of Mabel of Bury St. Edmunds, English embroiderer.

Paintings

• 1238: Wuzhun Shifan – Self-portrait
• 1237: Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti – Maqamat (meetings) of the al-Hariri
• 1235: Bonaventura Berlinghieri – St. Francis

Births

• 1239: Gaddo Gaddi, Florentine painter and mosaicist in a gothic art style (died 1312)
• 1238: Guglielmo Agnelli, Pisan-born sculptor and architect (died 1313)
• 1235: Qián Xuǎn, Chinese loyalist painter from Zhejiang during the Southern Song dynasty (died 1305)
• 1235: Chen Rong, Chinese painter during the Southern Song dynasty (died 1262)

Deaths

• 1235: Cosimo Cosmati, Roman architect, sculptor and worker in decorative geometric mosaic (born 1210)
• 1230: Benedetto Antelami, Italian architect and sculptor of the Romanesque school (born 1150)

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