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

• Michelangelo
• *David
• * Madonna of Bruges
• *Pitti Tondo
• * Taddei Tondo

Graphic art

• 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