1460s in art
overview of the events of the 1460s in art
The decade of the 1460s in art involved some significant events.
Events
1465
Andrea Mantegna begins work on the frescoes in the Camera degli Sposi of the Ducal Palace, Mantua.
Domenico di Michelino is commissioned to paint the fresco La commedia illumina Firenze in Florence Cathedral.
Filippo Lippi and his assistants finish 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.
c.1466: Piero della Francesca finishes work on the frescoes of The History of the True Cross in San Francesco, Arezzo.
Paintings
c.1450s–1466: Piero della Francesca – The History of the True Cross (San Francesco, Arezzo)
1455–1460: Francesco del Cossa – Polyhymnia (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)
c.1455–1460: Giovanni Bellini
Presentation at the Temple (Pinacoteca Querini Stampalia, Venice)
Transfiguration of Christ (first version, Museo Correr, Venice)
c.1457–1460: Piero della Francesca – Madonna del Parto (Monterchi)
1459–1461: Benozzo Gozzoli – Journey of the Magi to Bethlehem frescoes in Magi Chapel, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence
c.1459–1465: Giovanni Bellini – Agony in the Garden (National Gallery, London)
1459–1466: Andrea Mantegna – Portrait of Carlo de' Medici
1460s: Nuno Gonçalves (attributed) – Saint Vincent Panels (National Museum of Ancient Art, Lisbon)
c.1460s: Antonello da Messina – Salting Madonna
1460: Andrea Mantegna – St. Bernardino of Siena between Two Angels (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)
c.1460: Giovanni Bellini
Blessing Christ (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
The Blood of Christ (National Gallery, London)
Dead Christ in the Sepulchre (Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan)
Pietà (Dead Christ Supported by the Madonna and St. John) (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)
Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels (Museo Correr, Venice)
c.1460: Dieric Bouts
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