1240s in art

The decade of the 1240s involved some significant events in art.

Events c.1240: Oxford manuscript illuminator William de Brailes incorporates in illustrations to a book of hoursBritish Library. and a psalterFitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. named self-portraits, among the earliest known. 1248: April 26: Consecration of Sainte Chapelle, Paris, noted for its stained glass.

Paintings 1244: Chen Rong – Nine Dragons 1246: Ma Lin – The Wind in the Pines Listening

Births 1240: Cimabue, Italian (Florentine) painter and creator of mosaics (died 1302) 1240: Arnolfo di Cambio, Italian architect and sculptor (died 1300/1310) 1245: Araniko, Nepalese painter and architect (died 1306) 1245: Li Kan, Chinese Yuan dynasty painter (died 1320) 1247: Yishan Yining, Chinese Buddhist monk, calligrapher, writer and teacher (died 1317) 1248: Gao Kegong, Chinese Yuan dynasty painter (died 1310)

Deaths 1249: Wuzhun Shifan, Han Chinese painter, calligrapher and prominent Zen Buddhist (born 1178) 1242: Bonaventura Berlinghieri, Italian Gothic painter (born 1215) 1241: Fujiwara no Teika, Japanese poet, critic, calligrapher, novelist, anthologist, scribe and scholar (born 1162)

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