The decade of the 1230s in art involved some significant events.
Events
1239: First record of Mabel of Bury St. Edmunds, English embroiderer.
Paintings
1238: Wuzhun Shifan – Self-portrait
1237: Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti – Maqamat (meetings) of the al-Hariri
1235: Bonaventura Berlinghieri – St. Francis
Births
1239: Gaddo Gaddi, Florentine painter and mosaicist in a gothic art style (died 1312) 1238: Guglielmo Agnelli, Pisan-born sculptor and architect (died 1313) 1235: Qián Xuǎn, Chinese loyalist painter from Zhejiang during the Southern Song dynasty (died 1305) 1235: Chen Rong, Chinese painter during the Southern Song dynasty (died 1262)
Deaths
1235: Cosimo Cosmati, Roman architect, sculptor and worker in decorative geometric mosaic (born 1210) 1230: Benedetto Antelami, Italian architect and sculptor of the Romanesque school (born 1150)