1503 in art

Events

• Leonardo da Vinci probably begins painting the Mona Lisa in Florence
• Giuliano Bugiardini joins the painter's guild in Florence
• First record of Matthias Grünewald painting

Works

• Mariotto Albertinelli – The Visitation of the Virgin
• Albrecht Dürer – Great Piece of Turf
• Filippino Lippi – Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine
• Pietro Perugino – Combat of Love and Chastity
• Raphael – Madonna and Child with the Book
• Luca Signorelli – Portrait of Vitelozzo Vitelli
• Master of Frankfurt – Holy Kinship Madonna of Laroque, perhaps by Leonardo da Vinci

Births

• Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian Mannerist painter from Florence
• Pedro Campaña, Flemish painter of the Renaissance period
• Paul Dax, Austrian artist
• Parmigianino, Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker
• Augustin Hirschvogel, German artist, mathematician, and cartographer known primarily for his etchings
• Giovanni Battista Scultori, Italian painter, sculptor and engraver
• Michele Tosini, Italian painter of the Renaissance and Mannerist period, who worked in Florence

Deaths

• Israhel van Meckenem, German printmaker and goldsmith
• 1502/1503: Giovanni Donato da Montorfano, Italian painter