1480s in art
overview of the events of the 1480s in art
The decade of the 1480s in art involved some significant events.
Events
c.1480–1483 – Tomb of Philippe Pot constructed.
1481
Altarpiece of St. Nicholas Church, Tallinn from the workshop of Hermen Rode completed.
A group of Florentine painters – Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Cosimo Rosselli – begins work on mural frescos in the Sistine Chapel, Rome, with (perhaps under the direction of) Pietro Perugino.
1482 – Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, commissions Leonardo da Vinci to make an equestrian statue that would have been the largest in the world. A clay cast is made over sixteen years but the bronze is appropriated for use in cannons and the cast is destroyed when the Duke's castle falls to French invaders.
1483 – In the Republic of Venice
A competition to design a monument to Bartolomeo Colleoni is won by Andrea del Verrocchio with an equestrian design.
Giovanni Bellini is named official painter to the Republic.
1484 – Albrecht Dürer makes a Self-Portrait at the age of 13 in silverpoint.
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