1200s in art
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| 1190s 1190s in art The decade of the 1190s in art involved some significant events.-Births:* 1195: Xia Gui – Chinese scroll painter of the Song Dynasty, great master of the Southern Song landscape style... . 1200s in art . 1210s 1210s in art The decade of the 1210s in art involved some significant events.-Births:* 1215: Bonaventura Berlinghieri – Italian painter of the Gothic period * 1210: Muqi Fachang – Chinese Zen Buddhist monk and renowned painter... |
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The decade of the 1200s in art involved some significant events.
Art
- 1205: The Legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus – stained glassStained glassThe term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a material or to works produced from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant buildings...
done for Rouen CathedralRouen CathedralRouen Cathedral is a Roman Catholic Gothic cathedral in Rouen, in northwestern France. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Rouen and Normandy.-History:... - 1205: Stone jamb figures done for Chartres Cathedral
Deaths
- 1205: Nicholas of VerdunNicholas of VerdunNicholas of Verdun was a French artist, one of the most famous goldsmiths and enamellists of the Middle Ages, a major figure in Romanesque art, and the leading figure of Mosan art in his day...
– FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
goldsmithGoldsmithA goldsmith is a metalworker who specializes in working with gold and other precious metals. Since ancient times the techniques of a goldsmith have evolved very little in order to produce items of jewelry of quality standards. In modern times actual goldsmiths are rare...
and enamellistVitreous enamelVitreous enamel, also porcelain enamel in U.S. English, is a material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between 750 and 850 °C...
of the Middle AgesMiddle AgesThe Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...
(b. 1130) - 1205: Fujiwara TakanobuFujiwara TakanobuFujiwara Takanobu was one of the leading Japanese portrait artists of his day.Takanobu was born in Kyoto, and was the half-brother of Fujiwara Sadaie, one of Japan’s greatest poets. Takanobu specialized in nise-e portraits, except instead of painting on small-size paper Takanobu painted on...
– JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese nise-eNise-eNise-e , or "likeness pictures," were a style of portraiture popular in the courts and intellectual circles of Japan's Kamakura period. Court officials, poets and intellectuals, and other prominent figures, would be portrayed in such a way as to capture the essence and personality of the individual...
painter (d. 1142)