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The decade of the 1180s in art involved some significant events.

Contents

• Events
• Works
• Births
• Deaths
• Notes
• References

Events

• 1185: The Comnenian Age of Byzantine art comes to an end when the Komnenian dynasty lose power

Works

• 1183: Unkei transcribes two copies of the Lotus Sutra (calligraphy) ^[1]
• 1189: Kōkei sculpts Four Heavenly Kings in Kōfuku-ji

Births

• 1180: Giunta Pisano – Italian painter (died 1258)

Deaths

• 1189: Lin Tinggui – Chinese painter of the Southern Song dynasty (born 1127)
• 1182: Zhao Boju – Chinese landscape and flower painter of the Southern Song dynasty (died 1120)

Notes

References

• Stone, Jacqueline I. (1998). "Chanting the August Title of the Lotus Sutra: Daimoku: Practices in Classical and Medieval Japan". Re-visioning "Kamakura" Buddhism. University of Hawai'i Press.