The decade of the 1180s in art involved some significant events. Events 1185: The Comnenian Age of Byzantine art comes to an end when the Komnenian dynasty lose power Works 1183: Unkei transcribed two copies of the Lotus Sutra (calligraphy) 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) Art Decades of the 12th century in art