1501 in art

Works

• Giovanni Bellini – Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan
• Giorgione – The Three Ages of Man
• Leonardo da Vinci – Madonna of the Yarnwinder
• Raphael – ''Baronci Altarpiece''

Births

• date unknown
• *Girolamo da Carpi, court painter and decorator to the Duke d'Este
• *Perino del Vaga, Italian painter
• *Wang Guxiang, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty
• *Wen Jia, Chinese painter of landscapes and flowers during the Ming Dynasty

Deaths

• Gil de Siloé, Spanish Gothic sculptor of Flemish origin
• Bartolomeo di Giovanni, early renaissance Italian painter of the Florentine School
• Ali-Shir Nava'i, Central Asian politician, mystic, linguist, painter and poet
• Antonio Rinaldeschi, Italian gambler, executed for throwing dung at a painting of the Virgin Mary above the doorway of the church of Santa Maria degli Alberghi in Florence
• 1501/1502 – Vittorio Crivelli, Italian painter