The decade of the1490s in art involved some significant events.
TheRenaissance is in full swing during the 1490s, andLeonardo da Vinci is painting in realistic,chiaroscuro style. In music, many new musical styles are being created, including themotet andmadrigal, replacing an emphasis onchanting (and simple melodies) withpolyphony andhomophony.Christopher Columbus's explorations of theNew World captivates the artistic imagination of both artists and the public.
Leonardo da Vinci,The Last Supper, 1498,Santa Maria delle Grazie (Milan)
Fra Bartolomeo,Portrait of Girolamo Savonarola, the artist's mentor, c. 1498- 1490:Giovanni Cariani - Italian painter of the high-Renaissance (died1547)
- 1490:Peter Dell the Elder – German sculptor (died1552)
- 1490:Agostino Veneziano –Italianengraver (died1540)
- 1490:Giovanni Maria Francesco Rondani –Italianpainter of the Parmesan school of painting (died1550)
- 1490:Gregório Lopes –Renaissance painter fromPortugal (died1550)
- 1490:Hans Dürer –German Renaissancepainter,illustrator, andengraver
- 1490:Peter Flötner - German designer, sculptor, and printmaker (died1546)
- 1490:Lucas Gassel, Flemish painter (died1568)
- 1490:Adriaen Isenbrandt – Flemish painter (died1538)
- 1490:Battista Dossi –Italian painter who belonged to theFerrara School of Painting (died1548)
- 1490:Dosso Dossi –Italian Renaissance painter who belonged to theFerrara School of Painting (died1542)
- 1490:Vincenzo Pagani - Italian painter (died1568)
- 1490:Valentin Bousch - French master glass artist and a glass painter (died1541)
- 1490:Fra Paolo da Pistoia – Italian painter andDominican friar (died1547)
- 1490:Diego Siloe –SpanishRenaissance architect andsculptor (died1563)
- 1490:Hans Springinklee - German wood-engraver (died1540)
- 1490:Marinus van Reymerswaele –DutchRenaissancepainter (died1546)
- 1490:Stanisław Samostrzelnik –PolishRenaissance painter andCistercianmonk (died1541)
- 1490/1491:Altobello Melone –Italianpainter of theRenaissance (died1543)
- 1490/1495:Lucas Horenbout – Flemish artist and court miniaturist (died1544)
- 1491:Francesco Melzi –Italian painter and pupil ofLeonardo da Vinci (died1570)
- 1492:Simone Mosca - Italian sculptor (died1554)
- 1492:Domenico Puligo - painter from Florence (died1527)
- 1492:Michelangelo Anselmi –ItalianRenaissance-Mannerism painter active mostly inParma (died1554)
- 1492/1495:Polidoro da Caravaggio –Italian early Renaissance painter (died1543)
- 1493:Bartolommeo Bandinelli - Florentine sculptor (died1560)
- 1493:Barthel Bruyn the Elder - German painter (died1555)
- 1493:Marco Dente –Italian engraver of theRenaissance (diedunknown)
- 1494:Francesco Bacchiacca - Florentine Mannerist painter (died1557)
- 1494:Giovanni Bernardi - Italian gem engraver and medalist (died1553)
- 1494:Santi Buglioni - Italian sculptor (died1576)
- 1494:Qiu Ying –Chinese painter who specialized in thegongbi brush technique (died1552)
- 1494:Lucas van Leyden –Dutchengraver and painter (died1533)
- 1494:Rosso Fiorentino –ItalianMannerist painter, in oil andfresco (died1540)
- 1494:Ambrosius Holbein – German and Swiss artist in painting, drawing and printmaking (died1519)
- 1494:Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da Imola – Italianpainter anddraftsman (died1550)
- 1494:Pontormo –ItalianMannerist painter and portraitist from theFlorentine school (died1557)
- 1495:Antonio Labacco - Italian architect, engraver, and writer (died1567)
- 1495:Jan van Scorel –Dutch painter credited with the introduction ofHigh Italian Renaissance art tothe Netherlands (died1562)
- 1495:Francesco Signorelli - Italian Renaissance painter (died1553)
- 1495:Paris Bordone - Venetian painter (died1570)
- 1495:Scipione Sacco – Italian painter of the Renaissance active inCesena (died1558)
- 1495:Hans Weiditz - German Renaissance woodcut artist (died1536)
- 1496:Dirck Jacobsz –DutchRenaissance painter (died1567)
- 1496:Lu Zhi –Chineselandscape painter,calligrapher, and poet during theMing Dynasty (died1576)
- 1497:Hans Holbein the Younger –Germanartist andprintmaker who worked in aNorthern Renaissance style (died1543)
- 1498:Giulio Bonasone - Italian painter and engraver (died1574)
- 1498:Giulio Clovio –Renaissance illuminator, miniaturist, and painter, born inCroatia, who worked inRenaissance Italy (died1578)
- 1498:Diego de Arroyo - Spanish miniature painter (died1551)
- 1498:Moretto da Brescia –ItalianRenaissance painter ofBrescia andVenice (died1554)
- 1498:Lancelot Blondeel - Bruges-based Flemish painter (died1561)
- 1498:Anthony Toto - Italian painter and architect (died1554)
- 1498:Maarten van Heemskerck –Dutch portrait and religious painter (died1574)
- 1499:Hans Asper - Swiss painter (died1571)
- 1499:Michael Coxcie - painter (died1592)
- 1499:Giulio Romano –Italianpainter andarchitect (died1546)
- 1499:Jan van Calcar – Netherlandish-born Italian painter, pupil ofTitian (died1546)
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