1524 in art

Events

• Marcantonio Raimondi publishes the first set of his erotic engravings I Modi in Rome, which will be suppressed by order of Pope Clement VII.

Paintings

• Giovanni Francesco Bembo paints an altarpiece for San Pietro depicting a Madonna with three saints and a donor
• Hans Holbein the Younger paints Venus and Amor
• Giovanni Antonio Lappoli executed some frescoes for Visitation for Badia di Sante Fiore e Lucilla and Adoration of the Magi for the church of San Francisco
• Parmigianino paints a portrait of Gian Galeazzo Sanvitale, Count of Fontanellato
• Jan Provoost paints The Virgin in Glory at about this date, now in the Hermitage Museum
• Palma Vecchio completes the Polyptych of Saint Barbara altarpiece for Santa Maria Formosa in Venice
• Francesco Vecellio completes an altarpiece for San Vito in Cadore

Births

• date unknown
• *Giovanni Battista Fontana, Italian painter and engraver
• *Hans Sebald Lautensack, German painter and etcher
• *Plautilla Nelli, Florentine religious painter and nun
• *Cipriano Piccolpasso, Italian painter of majolica
• *Willem Thibaut, Dutch Golden Age painter
• probable
• *Paolo Farinati, Italian painter of the Mannerist style
• *Petruccio Ubaldini, Italian calligraphist and illuminator on vellum

Deaths

• October 5 - Joachim Patinir, Flemish Northern Renaissance history and landscape painter
• date unknown
• *Girolamo Alibrandi, Italian painter
• *Vasco de la Zarza, Spanish Renaissance sculptor
• *Hans Holbein the Elder, German painter
• *Tommaso Malvito, Italian sculptor
• *Andrea Solari, Italian Renaissance painter
• *Tang Yin, Chinese scholar, painter of the Ming dynasty