1520 in art
Events from the year 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