1511 in art

Events

• Albrecht Dürer publishes his woodcut series "Life of the Virgin", the "Great Passion" and "Little Passion".
• Michelangelo's 1508 bronze statue of Pope Julius II in San Petronio Basilica, Bologna is destroyed.
• The Miracle of 1511, a festival in Brussels in which the locals built approximately 110 satirical snowmen.

Painting

• Albrecht Dürer – Adoration of the Trinity
• Matthias Grünewald – The Small Crucifixion
• Michelangelo – The Creation of the Sun, Moon and Planets
• Raphael
• * Frescoes in Raphael Rooms of Apostolic Palace in Rome
• ** Cardinal and Theological Virtues
• ** The Parnassus
• ** The School of Athens
• * Madonna of Foligno
• * Madonna of Loreto
• * Portrait of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese
• * Portrait of Pope Julius II
• Titian
• * The Gypsy Madonna
• * Miracle of the Jealous Husband
• * The Miracle of the Speaking Babe
• * ''St. Mark Enthroned''

Sculpture

• Adam Dircksz – Miniature altarpiece

Births

• Bartolomeo Ammanati, architect and sculptor
• Camillo Boccaccino, Italian painter active mainly in Cremona and regions of Lombardy
• Jean Court, enamel painter
• Zhang Han, Chinese scholar-official, literary author, painter, and essayist
• Bernardino Lanini, Italian Renaissance painter active mainly in Milan
• Lelio Orsi, Italian Renaissance painter of the Reggio Emilia school
• Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect, who is today famous for his biographies of Italian artists

Deaths

• Simón de Colonia, Spanish architect and sculptor
• Raimo Epifanio Tesauro, Italian Renaissance painter specializing in frescoes