The decade of the 1180s in art involved some significant events.
Events 1185: The Comnenian Age of Byzantine art comes to an end when the Komnenian dynasty lose power
Works 1183: Unkei transcribes two copies of the Lotus Sutra (calligraphy)Stone 135. 1189: Kōkei sculpts Four Heavenly Kings in Kōfuku-ji
Births 1180: Giunta Pisano – Italian painter (died 1258)
Deaths 1189: Lin Tinggui – Chinese painter of the Southern Song dynasty (born 1127) 1182: Zhao Boju – Chinese landscape and flower painter of the Southern Song dynasty (died 1120)
Notes
References Stone, Jacqueline I. (1998). "Chanting the August Title of the Lotus Sutra: Daimoku: Practices in Classical and Medieval Japan". Re-visioning "Kamakura" Buddhism. University of Hawai'i Press.