The decade of the15th century in art involved some significant events.

• The 1st century of theRenaissance is completed, but new styles of painting remain strongly linked to theGothic style, except in theNetherlands and in theItalian city-states.

• c.1400: MiniaturistJacquemart de Hesdin paintsThe Carrying of the Cross
• 1401: Commission to design bronze doors for theFlorence Baptistery won byLorenzo Ghiberti
• 1405:Andrei Rublev paints icons and frescoes for theCathedral of the Annunciation, Moscow, the first record of his work
• 1408: Glass painterJohn Thornton of Coventry completesYork Minster's east window in England, the world’s largest expanse of medieval glass
• 1408:Donatello commissioned to sculpt a marbleDavid forFlorence Cathedral, his first significant commission

• 1400:Bernardo Martorell –Spanish painter, working in a late gothic style (died1452)
• 1400:Luca della Robbia –Italian sculptor fromFlorence, noted for histerracotta roundels (died1482)
• 1400:Filarete – Florentine Renaissance architect, sculptor and architectural theorist (died1469)
• 1401:Masaccio –painter of theQuattrocento period of theItalian Renaissance (died1428)
• 1402:Simone di Nanni Ferrucci – Italian sculptor of the Ferrucci family of artists (diedunknown)
• 1402:Marco del Buono – Italian painter and woodworker (died1489)
• 1403:Dello di Niccolò Delli – Italian sculptor and painter fromFlorence (died1470)
• 1404:Jacques Daret –Early Netherlandish painter (died1470)
• 1404:Leone Battista Alberti –Italian author whose treatises on painting and architecture are hailed as the founding texts of a new form of art (died1472)
• 1405:Stefano d'Antonio di Vanni – Italian Renaissance painter (died1483)
• 1406:Filippo Lippi –Italian painter of the ItalianQuattrocento (15th century) school (died1469)
• 1406:Sano di Pietro – earlyItalian Renaissance painter fromSiena (died1481)
• 1409:Liu Jue –Chineselandscape painter,calligrapher, and poet during theMing dynasty (died1472)
• 1400–1410:Konrad Witz – German painter, especially of altarpieces (died1445/1446)

• 1400:André Beauneveu – Early Netherlandish sculptor and painter (born1335)
• 1403:Niccolò da Bologna –Italianmanuscript illuminator (born1325)
• 1405:'Abd al-Hayy – Persian illustrator and painter (born1374)
• 1405/1406:Claus Sluter –Dutch sculptor (born1340)

• 1400s in art
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• 15th century in art

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