1512 in art

Events

• Michelangelo completes his nine Sistine Chapel ceiling paintings of the Creation.

Works

• Hans Baldung – The Trinity and Mystic Pietà
• Fra Bartolomeo – Madonna in Glory with Saints
• Albrecht Dürer – The Virgin Mary Appearing to St. John on Patmos
• Leonardo da Vinci – Self-portrait in red chalk
• Michelangelo – Sistine Chapel ceiling, including the Separation of Light from Darkness
• Raphael
• * The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple
• * The Triumph of Galatea
• Titian – approximate date
• * The Gypsy Madonna
• * La Schiavona
• * The Three Ages of Man
• Lucas van Leyden – The History of Joseph series of engravings, e.g. Joseph Explains Pharaoh's Dream
• Bernard van Orley – ''Triptych of the Carpenters and Masons Corporation of Brussels''

Births

• date unknown
• *Lazzaro Calvi, Italian painter who frequently collaborated with his brother
• *Luis de Morales, Spanish painter known as "El Divino"
• *Battista del Moro, Italian painter of the Renaissance period active in his native Verona
• *Prospero Fontana, Italian painter of the late Renaissance,
• : Giorgio Ghisi, Italian coppersmith, painter, and engraver
• 1512/1515: Marcello Venusti, Italian Mannerist painter primarily in Rome

Deaths

• April 5 - Lazzaro Bastiani, Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in Venice
• date unknown - Giovanni Cristoforo Romano, Italian sculptor and medallist