1522 in art

Works

• Antonio da Correggio completes the frescoes of the Vision of St. John on Patmos in the church of San Giovanni Evangelista (Parma).
• Benedikt Dreyer completes a Gothic altar called the "Antonius altar" for the Burg church in Lübeck.
• Titian completes the Averoldi Polyptych for the Santi Nazaro e Celso (Brescia).
• Bernard van Orley completes a triptych for the Brotherhood of the Holy Cross in a chapel of the Saint Walburga church in Veurne.

Painting

• Hans Baldung – The Stoning of Saint Stephen
• Hans Holbein – The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb
• Ludovico Mazzolino
• * Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
• * Madonna and Child with St. Joseph
• Ortolano Ferrarese – Mourning the Dead Christ
• Lucas van Leyden – ''Virgin and Child with the Magdalene and a Donor''

Births

• Antonio Campi, Italian painter
• Bernardino Campi, Italian Renaissance painter
• Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch writer, engraver, philosopher, translator, politician and theologian
• Federico Brandani, Italian sculptor and stuccoist who worked in an urbane Mannerist style as a court artist
• Jean Cousin the Younger, French painter, sculptor
• Pietro Marescalchi, Italian Renaissance painter
• Ludger Tom Ring the Younger, German painter and draughtsman

Deaths

• Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, Italian early Renaissance sculptor, architect and engineer
• Paolo Moranda Cavazzola, Italian painter active mainly in his hometown of Verona
• Piero di Cosimo, Florentine painter
• Fiorenzo di Lorenzo, Italian painter of the Umbrian school
• : Colijn de Coter, early Netherlandish painter who produced mainly altarpieces