1525 in art

Events

• Albrecht Dürer publishes his work on geometry, The Four Books on Measurement at Nuremberg
• Lucas Horenbout is named royal "pictor maker" to King Henry VIII of England, and will introduce the techniques of portrait miniatures to England
• Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen is named Court Painter to Archduchess Margaret of Austria

Works

Painting

• Lucas Cranach the Elder
• * Cardinal Albert of Brandenburg before Christ on the Cross
• * Venus and Cupid
• Antonio da Correggio – Venus with Mercury and Cupid or The School of Love
• Michelangelo – Head of Bearded Man Shouting
• Pontormo – Youth in a Pink Cloak
• Jan Provoost – Last Judgment
• Nicola da Urbino – Panel with the Adoration of the Magi
• Bernard van Orley – The Last Judgment
• Bartolomeo Veneto – Flora
• Pseudo Jan Wellens de Cock – ''The Crucifixion''

Sculpture

• Conrad Meit – ''Judith with the head of Holofernes''

Armor

• Kolman Helmschmid – ''Portions of a Costume Armor''

Births

• date unknown
• *Cesare Baglioni, Italian painter specializing in quadratura
• *Pieter Balten, Flemish Renaissance painter
• *Ferrando Bertelli, Italian engraver of the Renaissance period
• *René Boyvin, French engraver who lived in Angers
• *Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Netherlandish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes
• *Ascanio Condivi, Italian painter and writer, primarily remembered as the biographer of Michelangelo
• *Cristofano dell'Altissimo, Italian painter primarily working in Florence
• *Guillaume Le Bé, French engraver
• *Giulio Mazzoni, Italian painter and stuccoist
• *Francesco Terzi, Italian painter of primarily religious themes
• *Giovanni Maria Verdizotti, Venetian artist and poet
• *Juan Valverde de Amusco, Italian anatomist and engraver
• *Francisco Venegas, Spanish painter active in Portugal
• *Alessandro Vittoria, Italian Mannerist sculptor of the Venetian school
• *Song Xu, Chinese landscape painter
• 1525/1530: Hans Collaert, Flemish engraver

Deaths

• January 24 - Franciabigio, Italian painter of the Florentine Renaissance
• June - Girolamo di Benvenuto, Italian painter, son of Benvenuto di Giovanni
• June 10 - Tosa Mitsunobu, Japanese painter and founder of the Tosa school of painting
• August 4 - Andrea della Robbia, Italian Renaissance sculptor, especially in ceramics
• date unknown
• *Bernardino Bergognone - Italian Renaissance painter of the Milanese school
• *Boccaccio Boccaccino, Italian painter of the Emilian school
• *Vittore Carpaccio, Italian painter of the Venetian school
• *Nunziata d'Antonio, Italian painter, fireworks artist, and bombardier
• *Attavante degli Attavanti, Italian miniature painter
• *Ortolano Ferrarese, Italian painter of the Ferrara School
• *Davide Ghirlandaio, Italian painter and mosaicist
• *Michael Sittow, painter from modern Estonia who was trained in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting
• *Sōami, Japanese painter and landscape artist
• *Jacob van Utrecht, Flemish early Renaissance painter