Art year 1498
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Events
painting
- Albrecht Dürer paints the self-portrait with a landscape .
- 1497 or 1498: Leonardo da Vinci completes his mural The Last Supper in the refectory of the Dominican monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan . The work carried out in Secco technology is a commissioned work for Duke Ludovico Sforza .
sculpture
- The Italian sculptor Carlo dall'Aquila completed his only work known today, Mary with the Child .
Letterpress
- The printed work The secret revelation iohannis , the apocalypse of John with 15 woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer , is published. A little later the Latin edition follows under the title Apocalipsis cum figuris .
- Hans van Ghetelen prints the animal poem Reynke de vos in Lübeck . With the incunabula he gave the fable figure Reinecke Fuchs , created in the 13th century, further fame in German-speaking countries. The work contains 89 woodcuts, which, however, were not specially designed for Lübeck printing, but represent recuts from other printing works.
architecture
The first Gewandhaus, watercolor by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
- The Gewandhaus in Leipzig is built as an armory .
- The later Werther mill is built as part of the fortifications of the Werth village .
Died
- February 4th : Antonio Pollaiuolo , Italian sculptor, painter and engraver
- Michael Pacher , South Tyrolean painter and carver (* approx. 1435 )
