1250s in art
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The decade of the 1250s in art involved some significant events.
Works
Image:Duccio Maestà.jpg|Duccio Maestà with Twenty Angels and Nineteen Saints
- c.1250: The doorway from Moutiers-Saint-Jean is carved
- 1250: The illuminated manuscript Morgan Bible is completed
- 1251: Kei school sculptor produces Tamayori-bime statue in Yoshino Mikumari Shrine
- 1251–1254: Tankei sculpts a Thousand-armed Kannon at Sanjūsangen-dō
Births
- 1250: Giovanni Pisano, Italian sculptor, painter and architect (died 1315)
- 1254
- Ren Renfa, Chinese painter of horses, people, flowers and birds (died 1327)
- Zhao Mengfu, Chinese scholar, painter and calligrapher during the Yuan Dynasty (died 1322)
- c.1255
- Duccio, Italian artist, influential in his time (died 1318/19)
- Filippo Rusuti, Italian painter and mosaicist (died 1325)
- 1259: Pietro Cavallini, Italian painter and mosaic designer working during the late Middle Ages (died c.1330)
Deaths
- 1256: Tankei, Japanese sculptor of the Kei school (born 1173)
- 1258: Giunta Pisano, Italian painter (born 1180)