1490s in art

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1480s . 1490s in art . 1500s

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The decade of the 1490s in art involved some significant events.

Events

The Renaissance is in full swing during the 1490s, and Leonardo da Vinci is painting in realistic, chiaroscuro style. In music, many new musical styles were being created, including the motet and madrigal, replacing an emphasis on chanting (and simple melodies) with polyphony and homophony.

Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper,1498, Santa Maria delle Grazie (Milan)

Paintings

• 1490: Leonardo da Vinci paints the portrait Lady with the Ermine.
• 1498: The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci (Santa Maria delle Grazie (Milan))

Births

• 1491: Francesco Melzi - Italian painter, beloved and favourite pupil of Leonardo da Vinci
• 1493: date unknown - Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Florentine sculptor (d. 1560)
• 1495: Jan van Scorel - Dutch painter credited with the introduction of High Italian Renaissance art to the Netherlands
• 1497: date unknown - Hans Holbein the Younger, German painter
• 1499: Bernardino de Ribera (Sahagún), Spanish composer (d. 1571) [see: in Spanish, Bernardino de Sahagún.]

Deaths

• (unknown)