1250s in art

1240s . 1250s in art . 1260s

Art timeline

The decade of the 1250s in art involved some significant events.

## Works[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 1256: Tankei, Japanese sculptor of the Kei school (born 1173)
* 1258: Giunta Pisano, Italian painter (born 1180)