Events
- 1440: Donatello completes his series of sculptures for Prato Cathedral.
- 1440: Pisanello moves to Milan.
- 1440: Luca della Robbia invents new techniques in terra cotta sculpting at about this date.
- 1440: Roger van der Weyden begins his travels through the Italian city-states.
- 1445: Fra Angelico is summoned by the Pope to paint frescoes in the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament (destroyed) in St. Peter's Basilica.
- 1445: Piero della Francesca is commissioned by the Compagnia della Misericordia in Sansepolcro to paint the Madonna della Misericordia.
- 1448: Giovanni d'Alemagna the elder, Antonio Vivarini, Niccolò Pizzolo and Andrea Mantegna are commissioned to decorate the Ovetari Chapel of the Church of the Eremitani in Padua.
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