1340s in art
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The decade of the 1340s in art involved some significant events.
Paintings
- 1342: Simone Martini – Christ Discovered in the Temple
- 1345: Ni Zan – Six Gentlemen
- 1348: Bernardo Daddi – Altarpiece of church of San Giorgio a Ruballa, Tuscany
- 1349: Zhu Derun – Primordial Chaos
Objects
- 1347: Église Notre-Dame de l'Assomption, Bergheim completed
- 1348: Gyeongcheonsa Pagoda
Gallery
Image:Simone Martini - Ritorno di Gesù dal Tempio.jpg|Simone Martini, Christ Discovered in the Temple, 1342
File:Ni Zan - Six Gentlemen.jpg|Ni Zan, Six Gentlemen, 1345
File:Korea-Seoul-National Museum Gyeongcheonsa Pagoda 0187&8-06.jpg|Gyeongcheonsa Pagoda, 1348
File:Zhu Derun - Primordial Chaos (painting only).jpeg|Zhu Derun, Primordial Chaos, 1349
Births
- c. 1345: Paolo di Giovanni Fei – Italian painter of the Sienese School (died 1411)
- 1340: Theophanes the Greek – Byzantine Greek artist, one of the greatest icon painters, or iconographers, of Muscovite Russia (died 1410)
- c. 1340: Niccolò di Pietro Gerini – Italian painter of the late Gothic period (died 1414)
- 1340: Claus Sluter – Dutch sculptor (died 1405)
Deaths
- 1349: Ugolino di Nerio – Italian painter most active in Siena (born 1280)
- 1348: Ambrogio Lorenzetti – Italian painter of the Sienese school. plague (born 1290)
- 1348: Pietro Lorenzetti – Italian painter, plague (died 1280)
- 1348: Bernardo Daddi – Italian painter, apprentice of Giotto, plague (died 1280)
- 1347: Andrea Pisano – Italian sculptor and architect (born 1290)
- 1344: Simone Martini – Italian painter born in Siena (born 1284)
- 1343: Ke Jiusi – Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher and poet during the Yuan dynasty (born 1290)