1500 in art
The year 1500 in art involved some significant events and new works.
Events
- 26 July: Bartolomeo di Pagholo becomes a Dominican friar.
- Sandro Botticelli begins painting of Adoration of the Christ Child as a tondo, oil on panel.
Works
- Fra Bartolomeo – Annunciation
- Sandro Botticelli – The Mystical Nativity
- Cima da Conegliano - Madonna and [Child (Cima da Conegliano, Cardiff)|Madonna and Child]
- Albrecht Dürer
- * Lamentation of [Christ (Dürer, Munich)|Lamentation of Christ]
- * Paumgartner altarpiece
- * Self-Portrait
- * Seven Sorrows Polyptych
- Giorgione – Adoration of the Shepherds
- Pietro Perugino - Vallombrosa Altarpiece
Births
- 3 November - Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist
- date unknown
- Hans Sebald Beham, German printmaker, engraver, designer of woodcuts, painter and miniaturist
- Niccolò Boldrini, Italian engraver
- Giulio Campi, Italian painter and architect
- *Pompeo Cesura, Italian painter and engraver
- *Jean Chartier, French painter, draughtsman, printer and publisher
- *Pieter Claeissens the Elder, Flemish painter
- *Jean Cousin the Elder, French painter, sculptor, etcher, engraver, and geometrician
- *Juan Vicente Macip, Spanish painter of the Renaissance period
- *Alessandro Oliverio, Italian painter
- *Niccolò Tribolo, Italian Mannerist artist
- approximate year of birth
- *Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli, Italian painter of the Parmesan School of Painting
- *Domenico Campagnola, Italian painter and engraver of the Renaissance period ; he was a pupil of his father, the painter Giulio Campagnola
- *Giovanni Battista Castello, Italianhistorical painter
- *Giovanni Filippo Criscuolo, Italian painter
- *Jean Mone, German-Flemish sculptor
- *Luca Penni, Italian painter, member of the School of Fontainebleau
- *Georg Pencz, German engraver, painter and printmaker
- *Ligier Richier, French sculptor
- *Jan van Amstel, Dutch Northern Renaissance painter
- *Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Flemish Northern Renaissance painter
Deaths
- date unknown
- *Antonio del Rincón, Spanish painter and artist
- *Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi, Italian painter and sculptor
- *Friedrich Herlin, German painter
- *Bernardo Tesauro, Neapolitan fresco painter