The decade of the 1480s in art involved some significant events.
Events
Paintings
- 1479-81: Ercole de' Roberti – Santa Maria in Porto Altarpiece
- 1480-90: Sandro Botticelli – '
- 1480
- Gentile Bellini – '
- Giovanni Bellini – '
- Sandro Botticelli – Saint Augustine in His Study (fresco in church of the Ognissanti, Florence)
- Carlo Crivelli – '
- Domenico Ghirlandaio – '
- Hans Memling
- Advent and Triumph of Christ (Alte Pinakothek, Munich)
- Sibylla Sambetha
- Virgin and Child with Musician Angels and donor with St. George (diptych; Alte Pinakothek, Munich)
- c.1480
- Sandro Botticelli – '
- Ercole de' Roberti – Portraits of and Ginevra Bentivoglio (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
- Piero del Pollaiuolo
- ' (Uffizi, Florence)
- Hans Memling
- '
- '
- The Virgin and Child with an Angel (National Gallery, London)
- Albertus Pictor – frescoes in Härkeberga Church, Sweden
- 1480-1482: Sandro Botticelli – Temptations of Christ (frescoes in Sistine Chapel, Rome)
- 1480-1483: Sandro Botticelli – Madonna of the Book
- c.1480-1484: Fra Carnevale (or Francesco di Giorgio Martini) – '
- c.1480-1485
- Sandro Botticelli
- '
- (probable artist) – Portrait of a Young Woman (Städel, Frankfurt)
- Geertgen tot Sint Jans – The Adoration of the Magi
- c.1480-1486: Sandro Botticelli – ' (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)
- 1481: Hans Memling – Christ Giving His Blessing
- c.1481-1485: Piero di Cosimo – ' (Saint Louis Art Museum)
- 1482: Sandro Botticelli – Primavera
- c.1482: Hans Memling – Annunciation (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
- c.1482-1485: Piero di Cosimo – Portraits of Giuliano and Francesco Giamberti da Sangallo (diptych)
- c.1483
- Sandro Botticelli – ' (National Gallery, London)
- Venus and Mars
- Pallas and the Centaur
- Perugino – Portrait of Lorenzo di Credi
- c.1483-1487 (unfinished): Leonardo da Vinci (probable) – Portrait of a Musician
- 1484: Hans Memling – St. Christopher and Saints
- c.1485: Hans Memling
- '
- Bathsheba
- '
- c.1485-1488: Sandro Botticelli – '
- c.1485-1490: Heinrich Lützelmann (probable painter, perhaps identical with "Master of the Drapery Studies") – The Passion of Christ (series of 10 oils for Sainte-Madeleine, Strasbourg)
- 1486: Carlo Crivelli – The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius
- c.1486: Sandro Botticelli – The Birth of Venus
- 1487: Hans Memling – Diptych of Maarten van Nieuwenhove (Old St. John's Hospital, Bruges)
- c.1487-1488: Michelangelo – The Torment of Saint Anthony
- 1489:
- Hans Memling – St. Ursula Shrine (reliquary for Old St. John's Hospital, Bruges)
- Cima da Conegliano – Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saint James and Saint Jerome and Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Male Saints
Sandro Botticelli Cestello Annunciation
Births
- 1480: Domenico Alfani â Italian painter (died 1553)
- 1480: Giovanni Francesco Caroto â Italian painter active in Verona (died 1555/1558)
- 1480: Lorenzo Lotto â Italian painter, draughtsman and illustrator (died 1556)
- 1480: Hans Leonhard Schäufelein â German painter, designer and wood engraver (died 1540)
- 1480: Andrea di Aloigi - Italian painter (died 1521)
- 1480: Palma il Vecchio â Italian painter of the Venetian school (died 1528)
- 1480: Bartolomé Ordóñez - Spanish sculptor (died 1520)
- 1480: Hans Brüggemann - German sculptor (died 1521)
- 1480: Marcantonio Raimondi â Italian engraver (died 1534)
- 1480: Hans Baldung â German Renaissance artist as painter and printmaker in woodcut (died 1545)
- 1480: Jean Clouet â miniaturist and painter working in France during the Renaissance (died 1541)
- 1480: Nicola Filotesio â Italian painter, architect and sculptor (died 1547)
- 1480: DamiÃÂ Forment - Spanish sculptor (died 1540)
- 1480: Joachim Patinir â Flemish Northern Renaissance history and landscape painter (died 1524)
- 1480: Nicola da Urbino - Italian maiolica and ceramicist (died 1540/1547)
- 1480: Albrecht Altdorfer â German painter, pioneer of landscape in art (died 1538)
- 1480: Erhard Altdorfer - German Early Renaissance printmaker, painter, and architect (died 1561)
- 1480: Jerg Ratgeb â German painter (died 1526)
- 1480: Jan Rombouts the Elder - Flemish Renaissance painter, glass painter, draftsman, printmaker and glass designer (died 1535)
- 1480: Gerino da Pistoia - Italian painter and designer of the Renaissance (died 1529)
- 1480: Raimo Epifanio Tesauro â Italian Renaissance painter specializing in frescoes (died 1511)
- 1480: Jan Wellens de Cock - Flemish painter and draughtsman of the Northern Renaissance (died 1527)
- 1480: Hans Maler zu Schwaz - German painter and portraitist (died 1526/1529)
- c.1480: Benedetto Montagna â Italian engraver and painter (died 1555/1558)
- 1480/1482: Bernardino Luini â North Italian painter from Leonardo's circle (died 1532)
- 1480/1485: Girolamo da Santa Croce - Italian Renaissance painter (died 1556)
- 1480/1485: Girolamo Savoldo â Italian High Renaissance painter (died 1548)
- 1480/1490: Adriaen Isenbrandt â Flemish Northern Renaissance painter (died 1551)
- 1480/1490: Joos van Cleve â Netherlandish painter (died 1540/1541)
- 1480/1490: Ortolano Ferrarese â Italian painter of the Ferrara School (died 1525)
- 1480/1490: Conrad Meit â German-born sculptor (died 1550/51)
- 1481: Hans Krafft the Elder, German medallist (died 1542)
- 1481: Baldassare Peruzzi â Italian architect and painter (died 1536)
- 1481: Benedetto Montagna â Italian engraver (died 1555/1558)
- 1481: Benvenuto Tisi (il Garofalo) â Late-Renaissance-Mannerist Italian painter of the School of Ferrara (died 1559)
- 1482: Richard Aertsz â Dutch historical painter (died 1577)
- 1482: Giulio Campagnola â Italian engraver and painter, invented the stipple technique in engraving (died 1515)
- 1482: Franciabigio â Italian painter of the Florentine Renaissance (died 1525)
- 1483: Raphael â Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance (died 1520)
- 1483: Chén Chún â Chinese artist specializing in "ink and wash" paintings (died 1544)
- 1483: Agostino Busti â High Renaissance Italian sculptor (died 1548)
- 1483: Il Pordenone â Italian painter of the Venetian school, active during the Renaissance (died 1539)
- 1483: Simon Bening â miniature painter of the Ghent-Bruges school (died 1561)
- 1484: Niklaus Manuel â Swiss dramaturg, painter, graphic artist and politician (died 1530)
- 1484: Giacomo Raibolini, Italian painter (died 1557)
- 1485: Titian â leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance (died 1576)
- 1485: Urs Graf â Swiss Renaissance painter and printmaker of woodcuts, etchings and engravings (d. c.1529)
- 1485: Sebastiano del Piombo (byname of Sebastiano Luciani) â Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter, famous for his combination of the colors of the Venetian school and the monumental forms of the Roman school (died 1547)
- 1485: Jost de Negker, Dutch woodcut-maker, printer and publisher (died 1544)
- 1485: Francesco Vecellio â Venetian painter of the early Renaissance, best known as the elder brother of the painter Titian (died 1560)
- 1485: Jean Duvet â French Renaissance goldsmith and engraver (died 1562)
- 1485: Wolf Huber â Austrian painter, printmaker, and architect, a leading member of the Danube School (died 1553)
- 1485: Girolamo Romanino, Italian painter (died 1566)
- 1485: Jean Juste â Italian sculptor (died 1549)
- 1485: Agostino Marti - Italian painter from Lucca (died 1537)
- 1485: ÃÂtienne Peson - French "primitive" painter (died 1551)
- 1485: Antonio Semini â Italian painter active in his native Genoa (died 1547)
- 1485: Lambert Barnard - English Renaissance painter (died 1567)
- 1486: Paolo Moranda Cavazzola â Italian painter active mainly in his hometown of Verona (died 1522)
- 1486: Domenico di Pace Beccafumi â Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter (died 1551)
- 1486: Jacopo Sansovino â Italian sculptor and architect, especially around the Piazza San Marco in Venice (died 1570)
- 1486: Andrea del Sarto â Italian painter from Florence (died 1531)
- 1486: Giacomo Francia â Italian engraver (died 1557)
- 1486: Francesco Torbido - Italian painter (died 1562)
- 1487: Francesco Xanto Avelli â Italian ceramicist (died 1542)
- 1487: Giulio Raibolini, Italian painter (died 1540)
- 1487: Andrea Sabbatini â Italian painter of the Renaissance (died 1530)
- 1487-1491: Bernard van Orley â Flemish Northern Renaissance painter and draughtsman (died 1541)
- 1487: Bonifazio Veronese - Italian Mannerist painter from Venice (died 1553)
- 1488: Alonso Berruguete â Spanish painter, sculptor and architect (died 1561)
- 1488: Xie Shichen â Chinese landscape painter during the Ming dynasty (d. unknown)
- 1488: Girolamo della Robbia, Italian ceramicist (died 1566)
- 1489: Antonio da Correggio â painter of the Parma school of the Italian Renaissance (died 1534)
Deaths
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