1490s in Art - Paintings

Paintings

• c. 1486–1490: Domenico Ghirlandaio paints the fresco Birth of St. Mary in the Tornabuoni Chapel of the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella in Florence
• 1490: Leonardo da Vinci completes painting the portrait Lady with an Ermine and (probably) paints Portrait of a Musician
• c. 1490–1497: Leonardo da Vinci or one of his school paints La belle ferronnière
• c. 1490–1498, probably c. 1495: Gerard David paints Triptych of the Sedano family
• 1492: Andrea Mantegna paints Descent Into Limbo a depiction of Christ descending into limbo to liberate the souls of the righteous
• c. 1494: Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād paints The Caliph Harun al-Rashid Visits the Turkish Bath, from a copy of the 12th century Khamsa (Five Poems) of Nizami Ganjavi, Herat, Afghanistan (now in British Library, London)
• 1495: Giovanni Donato da Montorfano paints The Crucifixion
• 1495: Sandro Botticelli paints Calumny of Apelles
• c. 1495: Jan Provoost paints a Crucifixion (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
• c. 1495–1496: Leonardo da Vinci probably draws the Portrait of a Young Fiancée for the Sforziada
• 1497: Andrea Mantegna paints Parnassus and the Trivulzio Madonna
• 1497: Pietro Perugino paints the Fano Altarpiece
• 1498: Gerard David paints The Judgment of Cambyses Part 1, The Judgment of Sisamnes and Part 2, The Flaying of Sisamnes
• 1498: Leonardo da Vinci completes painting The Last Supper (Santa Maria delle Grazie (Milan))