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Overview of the events of the 1170s in art

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The decade of the 1170s in art involved some significant events.

Events

1171: End of the Fatimid art period in Egypt and North Africa

Works

Benedetto Antelami, Deposition, 1178 (Baptistry of Parma)

Unknown artist, Limestone Sculpture of the Old Testament Priest Aaron, c. 1170

1178: Lin Tinggui and Zhou Jichang complete The Five Hundred Luohan
1178: Benedetto Antelami completes Deposition
1176: Unkei sculpts Dainichi Nyorai at Enjō-ji in Nara
1173–1176: Zhang Shengwen completes The Sakyamuni Buddha
1170: Unknown artist completes Limestone Sculpture of the Old Testament Priest Aaron
1170: Artist(s) complete the Hunterian Psalter illuminated manuscript

Births

1178: Wuzhun Shifan – Chinese painter, calligrapher, and prominent Zen Buddhist monk (died 1279)
1176: Fujiwara Nobuzane – Japanese nise-e painter (died 1265)
1174: Liu Songnian – Song dynasty Chinese artist (died 1224)
1173: Tankei – Japanese sculptor of the Kei school of sculptors (died 1256)

Deaths

1179: Hildegard of Bingen – German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary, polymath, poet, and producer of miniature Illuminations (born 1098)