1520 In Art

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 – ''Departure of Saint Florian''
*Domenico Campagnola – ''Gerolamo''
*Gerard David – '' The Virgin and Child in a landscape'' (approximate date)
*Gerard David or circle of Jan Mabuse – '' Our Lady of the Fly'' (approximate date)
* Il Garofalo – ''Ascension of Christ''
* Quentin Matsys – '' Portrait of a woman''
* Francesco Melzi – ''Flora''
*Raphael – '' Transfiguration''
*Titian – ''Venus Anadyomene'' (approximate date)
*Lucas van Leyden – ''Lot and his Daughters'' (approximate date)
* Jan van Scorel – ''Sippenaltar''
* Pseudo Jan Wellens de Cock – ''Calvary'' (approximate date)
* Portrait of Francis I of France (completed by this date)

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)
**Étienne Dupérac 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)Jones and Penny, pp. 1 and 246. He died on his 37th birthday; according to different sources, his birth and death both occurred on Good Friday. The matter has been much discussed, as both cannot be true.
* 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)

References

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Years of the 16th century in art