1523 in art

Events

• Two painters compete for the position of "piombo", following the elevation of Giulio de' Medici to the pontificate as Pope Clement VII: Sebastiano Luciani obtains it over Giovanni da Udine.
• Benedetto Montagna inherits his father's workshop in Vicenza and ceases to make engravings at about this time.

Works

• Hans Holbein the Younger – Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam with Renaissance pilaster
• Parmigianino – Circumcision of Jesus
• Titian
• * Bacchus and Ariadne
• * ''Man with a Glove''

Births

• January 29 - Enea Vico, Italian engraver
• date unknown
• *Plautilla Nelli, Italian painter
• *Pieter Pourbus, Dutch-born Flemish Renaissance painter
• *Stradanus, Flanders-born mannerist painter
• *Crispin van den Broeck, Flemish painter

Deaths

• August 13 - Gerard David, Early Netherlandish painter known for his brilliant use of color
• October 16 - Luca Signorelli, Italian Renaissance painter, draughtsman, especially in his use of foreshortening
• date unknown
• *Pellegrino Aretusi, Italian painter specializing in frescoes
• *Marco Bello, Italian painter, pupil of Giovanni Bellini
• *Ambrogio Bergognone, Italian Renaissance painter of the Milanese school
• *Ludovico Brea, Italian painter active primarily in Genoa
• *Baccio da Montelupo, Italian sculptor
• *Hans Fries, Swiss painter before the Reformation
• *Bartolomeo Montagna, Italian painter and architect who worked in Vicenza and Venice
• *Alessandro Pampurino, Italian Renaissance painter
• *Martino Piazza, Italian Renaissance painter
• *Pietro Perugino, Italian painter of the Umbrian school and mentor of Raphael
• *Cesare da Sesto, Italian painter active primarily in Milan
• *Timoteo Viti, Italian painter