1502 in art

Events

• The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers is formed by merger as a Livery Company of the City of London.

Works

• Vittore Carpaccio – St. Augustine in His Study
• Albrecht Dürer – Young Hare
• Andrea Mantegna – Triumph of the Virtues
• Raphael – Portrait of a Man
• Michael Sittow – "Vienna" portrait, probably of Catherine of Aragon

Births

• Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish artist of paintings and tapestries
• Heinrich Aldegrever, German painter and engraver
• Barthel Beham, German engraver, miniaturist and painter
• Wen Boren, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty
• Luis de Vargas, Spanish painter of the late-Renaissance period
• Pier Francesco Foschi, Italian painter active in Florence in a Mannerist style
• Bartolomeo Veneto, Italian portrait painter

Deaths

• Francesco di Giorgio, Italian painter of the Sienese school, a sculptor, an architect and theorist, and a military engineer
• Dionisius, head of the Moscow school of icon painters
• Francesco Laurana, Dalmatian-born sculptor and medallist
• Alvise Vivarini, Italian painter
• 1501/1502: Vittorio Crivelli, Italian painter
• 1502/1503: Giovanni Donato da Montorfano, Italian painter