1506 in art

Events

• 14 January - The classical statue of Laocoön and His Sons is unearthed in a vineyard near the site of the Domus Aurea of the Roman emperor Nero and the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. On the recommendation of Giuliano da Sangallo and Michelangelo, Pope Julius II purchases it and places it on public display in the Vatican a month later.
• Francesco Raibolini becomes a court painter in Mantua.

Works

Painting

• Giorgione
• * Laura
• * Young Man with Arrow
• Leonardo da Vinci – Mona Lisa
• Raphael
• * Madonna del cardellino
• * Portrait of Maddalena Doni
• * Young Woman with Unicorn
• Albrecht Dürer – ''Portrait of a Young Woman''

Births

• April 13 - Peter Faber, French Jesuit painter and sculptor
• date unknown - Ippolito Costa, Italian painter
• probable
• *Domenico del Barbieri, Florentine painter
• *Hans Brosamer, German engraver, wood-cutter, and portraitist
• *Girolamo Lombardo, Italian sculptor
• *Bernard Salomon, French painter, draftsman and engraver

Deaths

• August 26 - Sesshū Tōyō, master of suibokuga, and a Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest
• September 13 - Andrea Mantegna, Italian Renaissance painter and engraver
• probable
• *Pietro di Domenico - Italian Renaissance painter
• *Pier Antonio Mezzastris, Italian painter of the Umbrian school
• *Giovanni di Stefano, Italian bronze-caster, engineer, and sculptor