title: 1140s in art
text: # 1140s in art
  
  The decade of the 1140s in art involved some significant events.
  
  ## Works
  
  * 1145: oldest known Jesse Tree window completed
  * 1148: The illuminated manuscript Parc Abbey Bible was completed
  
  ## Births
  
  * 1140: Liang Kai - Chinese painter, also known as Madman Liang, (died 1210)
  * 1142: Fujiwara Takanobu – Japanese nise-e painter (died 1205)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 1145: Zhang Zeduan – Chinese painter during the transitional period from the Northern Song to the Southern Song Dynasty (born 1085)
  * 1142: Yue Fei - Chinese military general and calligrapher (born 1103)
  * 1140: Toba Sōjō – Japanese astronomer and artist-monk, said to be the artist of the famous picture scroll Chōjū-giga (born 1053)
  