Events
- 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.
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