The decade of the 1420s in art involved some significant events.

Events

• 1420s: First use of graphical perspective in painting.
• February 19, 1426: Masaccio is commissioned to paint a major altarpiece, the Pisa Polyptych altarpiece in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Pisa.
• c. 1426 – Bahram Gur and the Indian Princess in Her Black Pavilion, a copy of the 12th century " Haft Paykar" (Seven Beauties) of Nizami Ganjavi, Herat, Afghanistan, is made. Timurid dynasty period. It is now kept at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
• Devonshire Hunting Tapestries woven.

Works

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  1423: Gentile, Adoration of the Magi
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  1424: Masaccio, Virgin and Child with St. Anne
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  1425: Masaccio, Portrait of a Young Man
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  1426: Masaccio, Crucifixion
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  1426: Masaccio, The Madonna and Child
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  1428: Masaccio, The Holy Trinity

Painting

• 1420 (c.) Fra Angelico Christ with a Crown of Thorns ^[1]
• 1420: Giovanni di Paolo paints a tiny gold-ground triptych
• 1422: Masaccio – San Giovenale Triptych
• 1423: Gentile da Fabriano – Adoration of the Magi
• c. 1424: Masaccio – Virgin and Child with St. Anne
• 1425: Gentile da Fabriano – Quaratesi Polyptych
• 1425: Masaccio – Portrait of a Young Man
• 1426: Masaccio – Crucifixion
• 1426: Masaccio – The Madonna and Child
• 1428: Masaccio – The Holy Trinity

Sculpture

• 1425: Donatello – Prophet ( Zuccone), 1423–1425. Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence
• 1425: Donatello – The Feast of Herod, c. 1425. Baptismal font, Siena Cathedral
• 1424: Masolino sculpts his Pietà
• 1423: Ghiberti's sculpture of St. Matthew is installed at the Orsanmichele guild center in Florence

Births

• 1429–1433: Antonio del Pollaiuolo – painter (died 1498)
• 1429: Mino da Fiesole – Italian sculptor from Poppi, Tuscany (died 1484)
• 1429: Gentile Bellini – Italian painter (died 1507)
• 1427: Alesso Baldovinetti – painter (died 1499)
• 1427: Shen Zhou – Chinese painter in Ming Dynasty (died 1509)
• 1427: Antonio Rossellino – Italian sculptor (died 1478–1481)
• 1426: Maso Finiguerra – Italian goldsmith, draftsman, and engraver (died 1464)
• 1425: Simon Marmion – Netherlandish painter (died 1489)
• 1425: Andrea Aleksi – Albanian architect, painter and sculptor (died 1505)
• 1425: Antoine Le Moiturier – French sculptor (died 1495)
• 1421: Benozzo Gozzoli – Italian Renaissance painter from Florence (died 1497)
• 1421: Andrea del Castagno – Italian fresco painter from Florence (died 1457)
• 1421: Lucas Moser – German Late-Gothic painter (died 1492)
• 1421: Andreas Ritzos – Greek icons painter (died 1492)
• 1420: Barthélemy d'Eyck – Early Netherlandish artist who worked in France as a painter and manuscript illuminator (died 1470)
• 1420: Giovanni Francesco da Rimini – Italian painter (died 1469)
• 1420: Matteo di Andrea de' Pasti – Italian medalist (died 1467–1468)
• 1420: Jean Fouquet – French painter, a master of both panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature (died 1481)
• 1420: Bartolomeo Caporali – Italian painter (died 1505)
• 1420: Loyset Liédet – early Netherlandish miniaturist and illuminator (died 1479)
• 1420: Nikolaus Gerhaert – Dutch sculptor (died 1473)
• 1420: Master E. S. – German engraver, goldsmith, and printmaker (died 1468)
• 1420: Sesshū Tōyō – master of suibokuga (ink painting), and a Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest (died 1506)
• 1420: Benedetto Bonfigli – Italian painter active around Umbria (died 1496)
• 1420–1425: Fra Carnevale – Italian painter of the Quattrocento (died 1484)

Deaths

• 1428: Andrea di Bartolo – Italian painter of the Sienese School (born 1360–1370)
• 1428: Masaccio, Italian painter (born 1401)
• 1427: Gentile da Fabriano – Italian painter known for his participation in the International Gothic style (died 1370)
• 1427: Lorenzo di Bicci – Italian painter of the Florentine school (born 1350)
• 1426: Hubert van Eyck – Flemish painter and older brother of Jan van Eyck (born 1366)
• 1425: Lorenzo Monaco – Florentine painter (born 1370)
• 1424: Lluís Borrassà – Spanish Gothic Era painter (born 1350)
• 1422: Conrad von Soest – German Gothic painter (born 1370)
• 1422: Taddeo di Bartolo – Italian painter of the Sienese School during the early Renaissance (born 1362)
• 1421: Antonio Bamboccio – Italian painter and sculptor of the Gothic period (born 1351)
• 1421: Nanni di Banco – Italian sculptor from Florence (born 1384)

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