1508 in art

Events

• December - Michelangelo begins painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling in the Holy See of Rome on a commission by Pope Julius II. This year also he completes a bronze statue of the Pope for San Petronio Basilica in Bologna, destroyed in 1511.

Works

• Fra Bartolomeo - Holy Father, St. Mary Magdalene and St. Catherine of Siena
• Vittore Carpaccio - The Presentation of the Virgin
• Albrecht Dürer
• *Heller Altarpiece
• *Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand
• Giorgione
• *Shepherd with a Flute
• *The Tempest
• *La Vecchia
• Lorenzo Lotto
• *Madonna with Child between Sts. Flavian and Onuphrius
• *Recanati Polyptych
• Raphael
• *Colonna Madonna
• *Niccolini-Cowper Madonna
• *The Tempi Madonna
• Lucas van Leyden – ''Mohammed and the Murdered Monk''

Births

• November 25 - Cristofano Gherardi, Italian Mannerist painter date unknown
• *Livio Agresti, Italian painter, one of the members of the "Forlì painting school"
• *Pieter Aertsen, Dutch historical painter
• *Antonio da Trento, Italian artist especially of woodcuts
• *Girolamo da Treviso, Italian painter
• *Giovanni Bernardo Lama, Italian painter
• *Qian Gu, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty
• *1508/1510: Lodovico Dolce, Italian art theorist
• *1507/1508: Wenzel Jamnitzer, Northern Mannerist goldsmith, artist, and printmaker in etching

Deaths

• Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis, Italian Renaissance painter from Milan
• Wu Wei, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty
• 1508/1509: Bernt Notke, German painter and sculptor