1250s in art

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1240s ^. 1250s in art ^. 1260s

Art timeline

The decade of the 1250s in art involved some significant events.

Works

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  Duccio Maestà with Twenty Angels and Nineteen Saints

• 1250: The illuminated manuscript Morgan Bible was completed
• 1251: Kei school sculptor produces Tamayori-bime statue in Yoshino Mikumari Shrine
• 1251-1254: Tankei sculpts a Thousand-armed Kannon at Sanjūsangen-dō

Births

• 1255: Duccio – influential Italian artist of his time (died 1318)
• 1255: Lorenzo Maitani – Italian architect and sculptor primarily responsible for the construction and decoration of the façade of Orvieto Cathedral (died 1330)
• 1255: Filippo Rusuti - Italian painter and mosaicist (died 1325)
• 1254: Ren Renfa – Chinese painter of horses, people, flowers and birds (died 1327)
• 1254: Zhao Mengfu – Chinese scholar, painter and calligrapher during the Yuan Dynasty (died 1322)
• 1250: Pietro Cavallini – Italian painter and mosaic designer working during the late Middle Ages (died 1330)
• 1250: Giovanni Pisano – Italian sculptor, painter and architect (died 1315)

Deaths

• 1258: Giunta Pisano – Italian painter (born 1180)
• 1256: Tankei – Japanese sculptor of the Kei school (born 1173)