1450s in art
overview of the events of the 1450s in art
The decade of the 1450s in art involved many significant events, especially in sculpture.
Events
1450: Jean Fouquet creates a self-portrait which is the earliest portrait miniature, and possibly the earliest formal self-portrait
1452: Filippo Lippi and his assistants begin work on the fresco cycle of the Stories of St. Stephen and St. John the Baptist in the Great Chapel (Cappella Maggiore) of Prato Cathedral
1453: Piero della Francesca begins work on the frescos of The History of the True Cross at the church of San Francesco, Arezzo
1454-1455: Printing of the Gutenberg Bible, the first major book printed with movable type in the western world, is completed by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz
1459: Benozzo Gozzoli begins work on the Journey of the Magi to Bethlehem frescos in the Magi Chapel, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence
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)
Pietà (Dead Christ Supported by the Madonna and St. John) (1455) (Accademia Carrara, Bergamo)
St. Jerome in the Desert (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 – St. Jerome in his Study (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 1455–1460)
Madonna del Parto (c.1457-1460)
Portrait of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (c.1451)
Stefano di Giovanni (Sassetta) – Mystic Marriage of St.
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