1517 in art

Events

• Hans Baldung leaves Freiburg and returns to Strasbourg.
• Sebastiano del Piombo begins painting The Raising of Lazarus.
• Perugino completes the altarpiece for the San Agostino Church.
• Pontormo begins work on Joseph in Egypt.
• Raphael begins decorating the Logge Vaticane.
• Domenico Fancelli completes sculpting the tomb of the Catholic Monarchs in the Royal Chapel of Granada.

Works

• Andrea del Sarto – Madonna of the Harpies
• Hans Baldung – Death and the Maiden
• Lucas Cranach the Elder – Portrait of a Saxon Princess
• Niklaus Manuel Deutsch – Death and the Maiden
• Lorenzo Lotto – Susanna and the Elders
• Quentin Matsys – Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus
• Pontormo – St. Quentin
• Raphael
• *Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary
• *The Path of Suffering
• Raphael's workshop
• *frescos for "Raphael Rooms" in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican
• *The Coronation of Charlemagne
• *''The Oath of Leo III''

Births

• September 6 - Francisco de Holanda, Portuguese humanist and painter
• December 15 - Giacomo Gaggini, Italian sculptor
• date unknown
• *Frans Floris, Flemish painter and one of a large family trained to the study of art in Flanders
• *Willem Mahue, Flemish painter
• approximate date - Antonis Mor, Dutch portrait painter
• 1517/1524: Niccolò Circignani, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period

Deaths

• January 5 – Francesco Raibolini known as Francesco Francia, Bolognese painter and medalist
• October 31 – Fra Bartolommeo, Florentine painter
• date unknown
• * Nikola Božidarević, Croatian painter
• * Cima da Conegliano, Italian Renaissance painter
• * Guidoccio Cozzarelli - Italian Renaissance painter and miniaturist