The decade of the 1450s in art involved many significant events, especially in sculpture.
Events
Paintings
- Giovanni Bellini
- Crucifixion (c.1455) (Museo Correr, Venice)
- Madonna with Child (after 1450) (Pavia)
- Madonna with Child (c.1455) (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
- PietÃÂ (Dead Christ Supported by the Madonna and St. John) (1455) (Accademia Carrara, Bergamo)
- ' (c.1455-1460) (Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham)
- Transfiguration of Christ (first version, c.1454-1460) (Museo Correr, Venice)
- Dieric Bouts
- Deposition Altarpiece (Royal Chapel of Granada)
- The Entombment (completed by c.1455) (National Gallery, London)
- Petrus Christus
- "Berlin Altar Wings" with Annunciation, Nativity, and Last Judgment (1452) (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)
- Virgin and Child Enthroned with St. Jerome and St. Francis (1457?) (Frankfurt)
- Antonio da Fabriano â ' (1451)
- Antonello da Messina
- Crucifixion (two versions, c.1454-1455)
- St. Jerome and Abraham panels (c.1455)
- Andrea del Castagno
- Assumption of the Virgin (c.1449-1450)
- Equestrian Statue of Niccolò da Tolentino (fresco painting, 1456) (Florence Cathedral)
- Piero della Francesca
- Flagellation of Christ (probably 1455âÂÂ1460)
- Madonna del Parto (c.1457-1460)
- Portrait of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (c.1451)
- Stefano di Giovanni (Sassetta) â Mystic Marriage of St. Francis (c.1450)
- Jean Fouquet â Melun Diptych (c.1452) (Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp)
- Filippo Lippi
- Annunciation and Seven Saints (c.1449-1459) (lunettes for Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence; now in National Gallery, London)
- Funeral of St. Jerome (c.1452-1460)
- Madonna del Ceppo (1452-1453)
- Saint Benedict Orders Saint Maurus to the Rescue of Saint Placidus (from predella c.1445-1450)
- Andrea Mantegna
- Adoration of the Shepherds (c.1450-1451)
- Crucifixion (1447-1459)
- Presentation at the Temple (c.1453-1455)
- Portrait of Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan (1459-1460)
- St. James Led to His Execution (c.1455) (lost)
- St. Sebastian (first version, c.1456-1459)
- San Luca Altarpiece (1453-1454)
- San Zeno Altarpiece (c.1457-1460)
- Paolo Uccello â The Battle of San Romano (triptych completed by c.1455)
- Shuilu ritual paintings (Chinese Ming dynasty, 1454)
- Rogier van der Weyden â The Braque Triptych (c.1452)
Sculpture
Births
- 1450: Matteo Lappoli, Italian painter (died 1504)
- 1450 Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch painter (died 1516)
- 1450: Ludovico Brea â Italian painter active primarily in Genoa (died 1523)
- 1450: Guidoccio Cozzarelli - Italian Renaissance painter and miniaturist (died 1517)
- 1450: Bartolomeo Montagna â Italian painter and architect who worked in Vicenza and Venice (died 1523)
- 1450: Antonio del Massaro - Italian Quattrocento painters (died 1516)
- 1450: Francesco Raibolini known as Francesco Francia, Bolognese painter and medalist (died 1517)
- 1450: Pedro Berruguete â Spanish painter (died 1504)
- 1450: Bartholomäus Zeitblom â German painter and the chief master of the school of Ulm (died 1519)
- 1450: Matteo de Fedeli - Italian Renaissance painter (died 1505)
- 1450/1460: Jan Joest â Dutch painter (died 1519)
- 1450: KamÃÂl ud-Dën BehzÃÂd â painter of Persian miniatures (died 1535)
- 1451: Cristoforo Moretti - painter of the quattrocento who worked in a late International Gothic style (died 1475)
- 1452: Pietro del Donzello â Italian painter (died 1509)
- 1452: Francesco dai Libri - Italian manuscript illuminator (died unknown)
- 1452: April 15 â Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, geometer, scientist, mathematician, musician and painter (died 1519)
- 1452: February 14 â Davide Ghirlandaio, Italian painter and mosaicist (died 1525)
- 1452: Attavante degli Attavanti - Italian miniature painter (died 1525)
- 1453: Sultan Ali Mashhadi - Persian calligrapher and poet (died 1520)
- 1454: Pinturicchio â Italian painter of the Renaissance (died 1513)
- 1455: Ugo da Carpi â Italian painter and printmaker who worked in woodcut (died 1523)
- 1455: Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis â Italian Renaissance painter from Milan (died 1508)
- 1455: Adam Kraft â German sculptor and master builder of the late Gothic period (died 1509)
- 1455: Ippolito del Donzello - Italian Quattrocento painter (died unknown)
- 1455: Jörg Syrlin the Younger - German sculptor (died 1521)
- 1455: Peter Vischer the Elder â German sculptor (died 1529)
- 1455: Francesco Bonsignori â Italian painter (died 1519)
- 1455/1460: Bernardino Bergognone - Italian Renaissance painter of the Milanese school (died 1525)
- 1456: Bramantino (Bartolomeo Suardi) â Italian painter and architect (died 1530)
- 1457: Filippino Lippi, Tuscan painter (died 1504)
- 1457: Pietro di Domenico - Italian Renaissance painter (died 1506)
- 1457/1459: Jean Bourdichon, French miniature painter and manuscript illuminator (died 1521)
- 1458: Pietro di Francesco degli Orioli â sculptor (died 1496)
- 1458: Antonio Lombardo â Italian sculptor (died 1516)
- 1459: Lorenzo di Credi â Italian painter and sculptor (died 1537)
- 1459: Cima da Conegliano â Italian Renaissance painter (died 1517)
- 1459: Wu Wei â Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (died 1508)
- 1459/1460: Benedetto Buglioni â Italian sculptor in glazed terracotta (died 1521)
Deaths
References