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The decade of the 1430s in art involved some significant events.

Events

• 1430: Considered end of Medieval art art period
• 1430: First use of optical methods in the creation of Art
• 1438-1440: Donatello completes his series of sculptures for the Cathedral of Prato.

Works

Masolino da Panicale, The Annunciation (1425-1430)

1430: Donatello, David

1432: Fra Angelico, The Annunciation, St. Mark's Convent, Florence

Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini portrait, 1434

Paintings

See also: Category:1430s paintings

• 1430: Masolino da Panicale, The Annunciation
• 1432: Fra Angelico, The Annunciation completed in Florence
• 1434: Jan van Eyck - The Arnolfini portrait
• 1434: Jan van Eyck - Ghent Altarpiece

Sculpture

• c.1430: Donatello, David (c. 1425-1430), Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence.
• c.1435: Lorenzo Ghiberti, Gates of Paradise, on doors of the Battistero di San Giovanni (Florence).

Births

• 1430: Desiderio da Settignano - Italian sculptor active during the Renaissance (d. 1464)
• 1430: Francesco Laurana - Dalmatian-born sculptor and medallist (d. 1502)
• 1430: Pier Antonio Mezzastris - Italian painter of the Umbrian school of painting (d. 1506)
• 1430: Fra Diamante - Italian fresco painter (d. 1498)
• 1430: Carlo Crivelli - Italian Renaissance painter of conservative Late Gothic decorative sensibility (d. 1495)
• 1430: Antonello da Messina - Sicilian painter active during the Italian Renaissance (d. 1479)
• 1430: Hans Memling - Early Netherlandish painter (d. 1494)
• 1430: Giovanni Bellini - Italian Renaissance painter (d. 1516)
• 1430: Simone Pope the Elder - Italian painter of the Renaissance period (d. 1480)
• 1430: Cosimo Tura - Italian early-Renaissance painter and one of the founders of the School of Ferrara (d. 1495)
• 1431: Shingei - Japanese painter and artist in the Muromachi period (d. 1485)
• 1431: Andrea Mantegna - Italian Renaissance artist (d. 1506)
• 1434: Kanō Masanobu - chief painter of the Ashikaga shogunate and founder of the Kanō school of painting (d. 1530)
• 1434: Tosa Mitsunobu - Japanese painter and founder of the Tosa school of painting (d. 1525)
• 1434: Michael Wolgemut - German painter and printmaker (d. 1519)
• 1435: Andrea del Verrocchio, influential Italian sculptor, goldsmith and painter who worked at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence (d. 1488)
• 1435: Pietro Lombardo - Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect (d. 1515)
• 1435: Michael Pacher - Austrian Tyrolean painter and sculptor (d. 1498)
• 1435: Andrea della Robbia - Italian Renaissance sculptor, especially in ceramics (d. 1525)
• 1435: Nicolas Froment - French painter (d. 1486)
• 1435: Bernt Notke - German painter and sculptor (d. 1508/1509)
• 1435: Giovanni Santi - Italian painter, poet, and father of Raphael (d. 1494)
• 1435: Jan Polack - Polish-born German painter (d. 1519)
• 1435/1440: Bertoldo di Giovanni - sculptor (d. 1491)
• 1436: Benvenuto di Giovanni - Italian artist, manuscripts (d. 1509/1517)
• 1439: Domenico Rosselli - sculptor (d. 1498)
• 1439: Francesco di Giorgio - Italian painter of the Sienese School, a sculptor, an architect and theorist, and a military engineer (d. 1502)

Deaths

• 1430: Andrei Rublev - the greatest medieval Russian iconographer (painter of Orthodox icons and frescoes) (b. 1360-1370)
• 1430: Daniil Chyorny - Russian iconographer (b. 1360)
• 1431: Li Zai - Chinese painter of landscapes and human figures during the Ming Dynasty (b. unknown)
• 1438: Jacopo della Quercia - Italian sculptor of the Italian Renaissance (d. 1374)