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