1520 in art
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Events from the year 1520 in art.
Events
- Considered the start of the Mannerism art period
- The oldest known painting depicting Stockholm is painted in the church of Storkyrkan.
Works
Painting
- Albrecht Altdorfer â Departure of Saint Florian
- Domenico Campagnola â Gerolamo
- Gerard David â The Virgin and Child in a landscape (approximate date)
- Gerard David or circle of Jan Mabuse â Our Lady of the Fly (approximate date)
- Il Garofalo â Ascension of Christ
- Quentin Matsys â Portrait of a woman
- Francesco Melzi â Flora
- Raphael â Transfiguration
- Titian â Venus Anadyomene (approximate date)
- Lucas van Leyden â Lot and his Daughters (approximate date)
- Jan van Scorel â Sippenaltar
- Pseudo Jan Wellens de Cock â Calvary (approximate date)
- Portrait of Francis I of France (completed by this date)
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Births
- February 23 (baptised) - Ercole Procaccini the Elder, Italian painter mainly active in Milan (died 1595)
- June 29 - Nicolás Factor, Spanish painter of the Renaissance period (died 1583)
- date unknown
- Gaspar Becerra, Spanish painter and sculptor (died 1570)
- Leonardo Brescia, Italian painter (died 1582)
- Mirabello Cavalori, Italian painter mainly active in Florence (died 1572)
- Claudio de Arciniega, Spanish sculptor and architect (died 1593)
- Giacomo del Duca, Italian sculptor (died 1601)
- Ãtienne Dupérac, French painter, draughtsman and engraver, topographer and antiquarian (died 1607)
- Giorgio Ghisi, Italian engraver from Mantua (died 1582)
- David Kandel, Strasbourg-born botanical illustrator (died 1592)
- Domenico Poggini, Italian sculptor (died 1590)
- Giuseppe Porta, Italian painter active mainly in Venice (died 1575)
- Martin Van Cleve, Flemish painter of the Van Cleve family (died 1570)
- probable
- Hans Eworth, Flemish painter (died 1574)
- Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Flemish printmaker and painter associated with the English court of the mid-16th Century (died 1590)
- Francesco Imparato, Italian painter active mainly in his natal city of Naples (died 1570)
- Girolamo Porro, Italian engraver on wood and on copper (died unknown)
- Martino Rota, Croatian artist and printmaker (died 1583)
- Hugues Sambin, French sculptor and woodworker (died 1601)
- (born 1520/1524): Giovanni Battista Moroni, Italian painter of the mannerist period (died 1579)
Deaths
- April 6 - Raphael, Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance (born 1483)[1]
- April 11 - Agostino Chigi, Italian banker and patron of the arts (born 1466)
- December 6 - Bartolomé Ordóñez, Spanish sculptor (born 1480)
- date unknown
- Raffaello Botticini - Italian Renaissance painter (born 1474)
- Sheikh Hamdullah, Ottoman master of Islamic calligraphy (born 1436)
- Sultan Ali Mashhadi, Persian calligrapher and poet (born 1453)
- Marx Reichlich, Austrian painter of primarily religious scenes (born 1460)
- Niccolo Rondinelli, Italian painter active mainly in Ravenna (born 1468)