1520 in art

Events

• Considered the start of the Mannerism art period
• The oldest known painting depicting Stockholm is painted in the church of Storkyrkan.

Works

Painting

• Albrecht Altdorfer – Departure of Saint Florian
• Domenico Campagnola – Gerolamo
• Gerard David – The Virgin and Child in a landscape
• Gerard David or circle of Jan Mabuse – Our Lady of the Fly
• Il Garofalo – Ascension of Christ
• Quentin Matsys – Portrait of a woman
• Francesco Melzi – Flora
• Raphael – Transfiguration
• Titian – Venus Anadyomene
• Lucas van Leyden – Lot and his Daughters
• Jan van Scorel – Sippenaltar
• Pseudo Jan Wellens de Cock – Calvary
• Portrait of Francis I of France

Births

• February 23 - Ercole Procaccini the Elder, Italian painter mainly active in Milan
• June 29 - Nicolás Factor, Spanish painter of the Renaissance period
• date unknown
• *Gaspar Becerra, Spanish painter and sculptor
• *Leonardo Brescia, Italian painter
• *Mirabello Cavalori, Italian painter mainly active in Florence
• *Claudio de Arciniega, Spanish sculptor and architect
• *Giacomo del Duca, Italian sculptor
• *Étienne Dupérac, French painter, draughtsman and engraver, topographer and antiquarian
• *Giorgio Ghisi, Italian engraver from Mantua
• *David Kandel, Strasbourg-born botanical illustrator
• *Domenico Poggini, Italian sculptor
• *Giuseppe Porta, Italian painter active mainly in Venice
• *Martin Van Cleve, Flemish painter of the Van Cleve family
• probable
• *Hans Eworth, Flemish painter
• *Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Flemish printmaker and painter associated with the English court of the mid-16th Century
• *Francesco Imparato, Italian painter active mainly in his natal city of Naples
• *Girolamo Porro, Italian engraver on wood and on copper
• *Martino Rota, Croatian artist and printmaker
• *Hugues Sambin, French sculptor and woodworker
• *: Giovanni Battista Moroni, Italian painter of the mannerist period

Deaths

• April 6 - Raphael, Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance
• April 11 - Agostino Chigi, Italian banker and patron of the arts
• December 6 - Bartolomé Ordóñez, Spanish sculptor
• date unknown
• *Raffaello Botticini - Italian Renaissance painter
• *Sheikh Hamdullah, Ottoman master of Islamic calligraphy
• *Sultan Ali Mashhadi, Persian calligrapher and poet
• *Marx Reichlich, Austrian painter of primarily religious scenes
• *Niccolo Rondinelli, Italian painter active mainly in Ravenna