1290s in art

Updated on Nov 22, 2023

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The decade of the 1290s in art involved some significant events.

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1291-1294: Alexander of Abingdon carves the marble tomb-chest for the bronze effigy of Queen Eleanor of Castile in Lincoln Cathedral

1291: A khachkar memorial stone is carved in Goshavank by Poghos

1291: Mosaics in the basilica San Giovanni in Laterano in Rome completed by Jacopo Torriti

1297: Jacopo del Casentino - Italian fresco painter active mainly in Tuscany (died 1358)

1296: Yang Weizhen – Chinese painter and calligrapher (died 1370)

1294: Zhu Derun – Chinese painter and poet in Yuan Dynasty (died 1365)

1292: Evrard d'Orleans – French sculptor (died 1357)

1291: Lippo Memmi – Italian painter from Siena (died 1356)

1290: Ambrogio Lorenzetti – Italian painter of the Sienese school (died 1348)

1290: Andrea Pisano – Italian sculptor and architect (died 1347)

1290: Giovanni di Balduccio – Italian sculptor of the Medieval period (died 1339)

1290: Taddeo Gaddi - Italian painter and architect (died 1366)

1290: Ke Jiusi – Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Yuan Dynasty (died 1343)

1298: Yaqut al-Musta'simi - calligrapher and the Turkish secretary of the last Abbasid caliph (born unknown)

1293: Jacopo Cosmati - Roman architect and sculptor, and worker in decorative geometric mosaic (born 1213)

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