1526 in art

Events

• c. September - German artist Hans Holbein the Younger begins a two-year stay in England.

Works

• Lucas Cranach the Elder – Kattarina Luterin
• Albrecht Dürer
• *Erasmus of Rotterdam
• *The Four Apostles
• *Portrait of Hieronymus Holzschuher
• *Portrait of Jakob Muffel
• Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da Imola – The Virgin and Child with Saints John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, Joachim and Anne
• Lucas Horenbout – Portrait miniatures
• *Catherine of Aragon with a monkey
• *Catherine of Aragon
• *Henry VIII
• Hans Holbein the Younger
• *Darmstadt Madonna
• *Lais of Corinth
• Lorenzo Lotto
• *Christ Carrying the Cross
• *Portrait of a Young Man
• Sebastiano del Piombo – ''Portrait of Andrea Doria''

Births

• October 30 - Hubert Goltzius, Dutch painter, engraver and printer
• date unknown
• *Federico Barocci, Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker
• *Juan Fernández Navarrete, Spanish Mannerist painter
• *Giovanni Battista Zelotti, Italian painter
• probable
• *Jacob Grimmer, Flemish landscape painter
• *Nicolaus van Aelst, Flemish engraver and painter
• * Melchior Lorck, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker of Danish-German origin

Deaths

• date unknown
• *Andrea Ferrucci, Italian sculptor
• *Liberale da Verona, Italian painter active mainly in Verona
• *Giovanni di Niccolò Mansueti, Italian painter
• *Jerg Ratgeb, German painter
• *Jacopo Torni, Florentine painter
• *Bernardo Zenale, Italian painter and architect
• probable
• *Nicolò Brancaleon, Venetian-born painter who worked in Ethiopia
• * Hans Maler zu Schwaz, German painter and portraitist