1504 in art
Events from the year 1504 in art.
Events
- January 25 – A committee of artists and citizens of Florence, including Leonardo [da Vinci], Sandro Botticelli, Cosimo Rosselli and Piero di Cosimo, meets to decide on the placement of Michelangelo's marble statue of David.
- September 8 – Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence.
- The Signoria of Florence commissions both Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci to paint the walls of the Grand Council Chamber in the Palazzo della Signoria.
Works
Sculpture
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- Jacopo de' Barbari – Still life with Partridge and Gauntlets
- Fra Bartolomeo – The Vision of St. Bernard with Sts. Benedict and John the Evangelist
- Hieronymus Bosch – The Garden of Earthly Delights
- Cima da Conegliano
- *Christ among the doctors
- *Madonna and Child
- *Saints Peter Martyr, Nicholas of Bari, Benedict and an Angel Musician
- Lucas Cranach the Elder – The Rest on the Flight to Egypt
- Albrecht Dürer
- *Adoration of the Magi
- *Joachim and Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate
- Giorgione
- *Castelfranco Madonna
- *Judith
- Leonardo da Vinci – The Battle of Anghiari
- Pietro Perugino – Marriage of the Virgin
- Raphael
- *Portrait of Pietro Bembo
- *Marriage of the Virgin
- *Saint George
- *Vision of a Knight
- ''The Seven Works of Mercy''
Publications
- Pomponius Gauricus – ''De sculptura''
Births
- April 30 – Francesco Primaticcio, Bolognese painter, architect and sculptor
- October 29 – Shin Saimdang, Korean genre works painter and calligraphist
- date unknown – Sesson Shukei, Japanese Zen monk and painter from the Muromachi period
- probable – Marco d'Agrate, Italian sculptor
Deaths
- April 15 – Filippino Lippi, Tuscan painter
- date unknown
- *Pedro Berruguete, Spanish painter
- *Gian Giacomo Dolcebuono, Italian architect and sculptor
- *Matteo Lappoli, Italian painter
- *Master I. A. M. of Zwolle, anonymous Dutch goldsmith and engraver