The decade of the 1430s in art involved some significant events.
Events
1430: Sometimes considered end of Medieval art period in Italy. 1430s: Start of European printmaking as the engraver known as the Master of the Playing Cards becomes active in south-western Germany and Switzerland. 1435: Leon Battista Alberti writes Della Pittura. 1438-1440: Donatello completes his series of sculptures for the Cathedral of Prato.
Works
Paintings
1425–1430: Masolino da Panicale – The Annunciation (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) 1428–1432: Jan van Eyck (attrib.) – Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (2 versions) c.1430 Domenico di Bartolo – Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saint Peter and Saint Paul (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) Jan van Eyck (attrib.) – Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon c.1430–1432 Fra Angelico – The Annunciation (for Convent of San Domenico, Fiesole; now Museo del Prado, Madrid) Stefano di Giovanni – Madonna of the Snows Altarpiece (Uffizi, Florence) c.1430–1440: Jan van Eyck – Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) 1432: Jan van Eyck Ghent Altarpiece Léal Souvenir 1432–1434: Fra Angelico – Annunciation of Cortona completed in Florence 1433: Domenico di Bartolo – Madonna of Humility Rogier van der Weyden (attrib.) – Virgin and Child Enthroned (Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid) Jan van Eyck – Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?) 1434: Jan van Eyck – Arnolfini portrait c.1434: Stefano di Giovanni Madonna of Humility with Saints (Triptych) San Domenico da Cortona Polyptych c.1434–1436: Jan van Eyck – The Annunciation (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) c.1434–1446: Workshop of Rogier van der Weyden – The Annunciation (Musée du Louvre) 1435–1438: Rogier van der Weyden – The Magdalen Reading c.1435–1440: Rogier van der Weyden (attrib.) – Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin 1435: Stefano di Giovanni – The Journey of the Magi (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) c.1435 Jan van Eyck – Madonna of Chancellor Rolin Konrad Witz – Heilspiegel Altarpiece and St. Christopher 1436 Paolo Uccello – Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood (fresco painting, Florence Cathedral) Jan van Eyck – The Madonna with Canon van der Paele (Groeningemuseum) 1437: Domenico di Bartolo – Virgin and Child (Philadelphia Museum of Art) c.1437 Stefano di Giovanni – Polyptych of St. Anthony the Abbot (Cortona) Jan van Eyck – Lucca Madonna c.1437-1438: Fra Angelico – Perugia Altarpiece c.1437-1444: Stefano di Giovanni Ecstasy of Saint Francis (Villa i Tatti, Settignano) Saint Francis Receiving Stigmata (National Gallery, London) c.1437-1446: Fra Angelico – The Annunciation (San Marco, Florence) 1438: Domenico di Bartolo – Polyptych of Santa Giuliana (Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia) c.1438-1440: Jan van Eyck – Madonna in the Church 1439: Jan van Eyck – Portrait of Margareta van Eyck (Groeningemuseum)
Sculpture
c.1425–1466: Donatello – David (bronze; Bargello, Florence) c. 1430 - Donatello - Dovizia (Mercato Vecchio lost) 1431–1438: Luca della Robbia – Cantoria (carved singing loft, Florence Cathedral) c.1435: Lorenzo Ghiberti – Gates of Paradise (bronze panels; doors of Florence Baptistery) 1438: Donatello - St. John the Baptist (wood, Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice)