1320s in art

The decade of the 1320s in art involved some significant events. Art

1320: Église Notre-Dame de l'Assomption, Bergheim begun 1322–1326: Simone Martini completes fresco depicting Saint Clare of Assisi in Lower basilica of San Francesco, Assisi 1328: Giotto Baroncelli – Altarpiece Polyptych, Baroncelli Chapel, Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence 1329: Pietro Lorenzetti – Carmelite polyptych, and The Prophet Elisha Lorenzo Maitani – The Eagle: Symbol of St John sculpture Andrea Pisano commissioned to design bronze doors for the Florence Baptistery

Births 1325: Puccio Capanna – Italian painter of the first half of the 14th century, who lived and worked in Assisi 1325: Niccolò da Bologna – Italian manuscript illuminator (died 1403) 1324: Giottino – Italian painter from Florence (died 1369) 1322: Matteo Giovanetti – Italian religious-themed fresco painter (died 1368) 1320: Giusto de' Menabuoi – Italian painter of the early Renaissance (died 1391) 1320: Gennaro di Cola – Italian Trecento painter active mainly in Naples (died 1370)

Deaths 1328: Li Shixing – Chinese landscape painter during the Yuan Dynasty (born 1282) 1327: Ren Renfa – Chinese painter of horses, people, flowers and birds (born 1254) 1325: Filippo Rusuti – Italian painter and mosaicist (born 1255) 1322: Zhao Mengfu – Chinese scholar, painter and calligrapher during the Yuan Dynasty (born 1254) 1320: Li Kan – Chinese painter during the Yuan Dynasty (born 1245) 1320: Filippo Tesauro – Italian painter active mainly in Naples (born 1260)

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