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| c. 1300 |
| | | Mosaic begins to yield to fresco, as the chief medium for the decoration of Christian churches | |
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| c. 1300 |
| | | Tabriz under the Mongol Il-khans is the first centre of Persian miniature painting | |
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| c. 1305 |
| | | Enrico degli Scrovegni employs Giotto to paint the cycle of frescoes in his chapel in Padua | |
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| 1308 |
| | | The cathedral authorities in Siena commission from Duccio the great altarpiece which becomes known as the Maestà | |
|  | Duccio Crucifixion (detail)
Manchester City Museum and Art Gallery
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| c. 1397 |
| | | The English king, Richard II, commissions a diptych (the Wilton Diptych) showing himself being presented to the Virgin and Child | |
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| c. 1400 |
| | | The final style of medieval painting, common to all Europe, is known as International Gothic because of its slender and elegant figures | |
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| 1412 |
| | | The three Limburg brothers illustrate for the duke of Berry the Très Riches Heures, one of the masterpieces of International Gothic | |
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| 1423 |
| | | Masaccio paints some of the frescoes in the chapel of a Florentine silk merchant, Felice Brancacci, in Santa Maria del Carmine | |
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| c. 1430 |
| | | Robert Campin, also known as the Master of Flémalle, brings to Flemish painting a natural and everyday quality which is entirely new | |
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| 1432 |
| | | A new altarpiece is installed in the cathedral in Ghent, introducing the powerful realism of Jan van Eyck | |
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