1515 in art

Events

• Giovanni Antonio da Brescia's engraving of the Belvedere Torso attracts the interest of connoisseurs and artists outside Rome.

Works

• Giovanni Bellini – Naked Young Woman in Front of the Mirror
• Cima da Conegliano – Virgin and Child with Saints and Donors
• Piero di Cosimo – The Myth of Prometheus
• Lucas Cranach the Elder – The Massacre of the Innocents
• Gerard David – Virgin and Child with Four Angels
• Albrecht Dürer
• *"Arch of Honor"
• *The Rhinoceros
• Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da Imola – The Virgin and Child with Saints Sebastian, Roch, Cosmas and Damian
• Jan Gossaert – The Adoration of the Kings
• Matthias Grünewald – Isenheim Altarpiece
• Leonardo da Vinci – Bacchus
• Jacopo Pontormo – Pharaoh with his Butler and Baker
• Raphael
• *Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione
• *Portrait of Bindo Altoviti
• *La velata
• Titian
• *Noli me tangere
• *Salome
• *Tarquin and Lucretia
• *Vanity
• *Violante
• *Woman with a Mirror
• *''Young Woman in a Black Dress''

Births

• October 4 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter and wood-engraver
• probable
• *Jean Bullant, French sculptor and architect
• *Nicolas Denisot, French Renaissance poet and painter
• *Willem Key, Flemish painter
• * Lambert Sustris, Dutch painter

Deaths

• November 5 – Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian Renaissance painter
• date unknown - Pietro Lombardo, Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect
• probable
• *Giulio Campagnola, Italian engraver and painter, inventor of the stipple technique in engraving
• *Vincenzo Foppa, Italian painter