The decade of the 1290s in art involved some significant events.
Events
Works 1291–1294: Alexander of Abingdon carves the marble tomb-chest for the bronze effigy of Queen Eleanor of Castile in Lincoln Cathedral 1291: A khachkar memorial stone is carved in Goshavank by Poghos 1291: Mosaics in the basilica San Giovanni in Laterano in Rome completed by Jacopo Torriti
Paintings
Births 1297: Jacopo del Casentino – Italian fresco painter active mainly in Tuscany (died 1358) 1296: Yang Weizhen – Chinese painter and calligrapher (died 1370) 1294: Zhu Derun – Chinese painter and poet in Yuan Dynasty (died 1365) 1292: Evrard d'Orleans – French sculptor (died 1357) 1291: Lippo Memmi – Italian painter from Siena (died 1356) 1290: Ambrogio Lorenzetti – Italian painter of the Sienese school (died 1348) 1290: Andrea Pisano – Italian sculptor and architect (died 1347) 1290: Giovanni di Balduccio – Italian sculptor of the Medieval period (died 1339)G. Kreytenberg. "Giovanni di Balduccio." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 3 October 2016 1290: Taddeo Gaddi – Italian painter and architect (died 1366) 1290: Ke Jiusi – Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Yuan Dynasty (died 1343)
Deaths 1298: Yaqut al-Musta'simi – calligrapher and the Turkish secretary of the last Abbasid caliph (born unknown) 1293: Jacopo Cosmati – Roman architect and sculptor, and worker in decorative geometric mosaic (born 1213)
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