1516 in art

Events

• Leonardo da Vinci moves to France and enters the service of King Francis I of France, being given the use of the manor house Clos Lucé connected via tunnel to the king's residence at the Château d'Amboise. He probably brings the Mona Lisa with him.

Works

• Fra Bartolomeo
• * Pietà
• * Scene with Christ in the Temple
• Hieronymus Bosch – Christ Carrying the Cross
• Cima da Conegliano
• * St Lanfranc enthroned between St John the Baptist and St Liberius
• * St Peter Enthroned with St John the Baptist and St Paul
• Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da Imola – The Virgin and Child with Saints John, Apollinaris and Catherine and a Bishop
• Leonardo da Vinci – St. John the Baptist
• Matthias Grünewald – Isenheim Altarpiece
• Lorenzo Lotto – Martinengo Altarpiece
• Michelangelo – Dying Slave
• Pontormo
• * Madonna with Child and Saints
• * Visitation of the Virgin and St Elizabeth
• Raphael
• * Cartoons of scenes from the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles for tapestries for the Sistine Chapel
• * Portrait of Cardinal Bibbiena
• * Portrait of Andrea Navagero and Agostino Beazzano
• Titian – ''The Tribute Money''

Births

• February 16 - Prospero Spani, Italian sculptor
• date unknown
• * Antonio Bernieri, Italian painter
• * Cristóvão Lopes, Portuguese portrait and altarpiece painter
• * Domenico Riccio, Italian painter in a Mannerist style from Verona

Deaths

• June 1 - Biagio d'Antonio, Italian painter
• August 9 – Hieronymus Bosch, Early Netherlandish painter of the 15th and 16th centuries
• c. November 26? - Giovanni Bellini, Venetian Renaissance painter
• date unknown
• * Giuliano da Sangallo, Florentine sculptor and architect
• * Jacopo de' Barbari, Italian painter and printmaker
• * Antonio del Massaro, Italian Quattrocento painters
• * Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Italian painter of the High Renaissance who worked in the studio of Leonardo da Vinci
• * Antonio Lombardo, Italian sculptor