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 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 )