1320s in art

The decade of the 1320s in art involved some significant events.

Art

• 1320: Église Notre-Dame de l'Assomption, Bergheim begun
• 1322–1326: Simone Martini completes fresco depicting Saint Clare of Assisi in Lower basilica of San Francesco, Assisi
• 1328: Giotto Baroncelli – Altarpiece Polyptych, Baroncelli Chapel, Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence
• 1329:
• Pietro Lorenzetti – Carmelite polyptych, and The Prophet Elisha
• Lorenzo Maitani – The Eagle: Symbol of St John sculpture
• Andrea Pisano commissioned to design bronze doors for the Florence Baptistery

Births

• 1325: Puccio Capanna – Italian painter of the first half of the 14th century, who lived and worked in Assisi
• 1325: Niccolò da Bologna – Italian manuscript illuminator (died 1403)
• 1324: Giottino – Italian painter from Florence (died 1369)
• 1322: Matteo Giovanetti – Italian religious-themed fresco painter (died 1368)
• 1320: Giusto de' Menabuoi – Italian painter of the early Renaissance (died 1391)
• 1320: Gennaro di Cola – Italian Trecento painter active mainly in Naples (died 1370)

Deaths

• 1328: Li Shixing – Chinese landscape painter during the Yuan Dynasty (born 1282)
• 1327: Ren Renfa – Chinese painter of horses, people, flowers and birds (born 1254)
• 1325: Filippo Rusuti – Italian painter and mosaicist (born 1255)
• 1322: Zhao Mengfu – Chinese scholar, painter and calligrapher during the Yuan Dynasty (born 1254)
• 1320: Li Kan – Chinese painter during the Yuan Dynasty (born 1245)
• 1320: Filippo Tesauro – Italian painter active mainly in Naples (born 1260)

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