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1310s in art

overview of the events of the 1310s in art

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ4549018 ↗
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The decade of the 1310s in art involved some significant events.

Events

1311: June 9 – Duccio's Maestà altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled in Siena Cathedral in Italy.

1315: February 12 – Italian sculptor Tino di Camaino is commissioned by the Republic of Pisa to create the statue of the late Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor (Enrico VII di Lussemburgo, King of Italy), to be finished in less than six months for the August 24 dedication of Henry's tomb. Camaino delivers the work by July 26.

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“1310s in art” enters the record as overview of the events of the 1310s in art. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what 1310s, overview and events can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “1310s in art” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.