1530 in art
Events from the year 1530 in art.
Events
- September 15 – Portrait of Saint Dominic in Soriano appears in the Dominican friary at Soriano Calabro, soon acquiring a reputation for having marvellous properties.
Works
- Paris Bordone – The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
- Bronzino – Portrait of Andrea Doria as Neptune
- Antonio da Correggio
- * Assumption of the Virgin
- * Nativity
- Lucas Cranach the Elder – The Judgement of Paris
- Il Garofalo – Madonna and Child and St Jerome
- Quentin Matsys – Ill-Matched Marriage
- Parmigianino – Portrait of a Man Reading a Book
- Titian – The Madonna of the Rabbit
- Portrait of Francis I of France
Births
- Giovanni Battista Armenini, Italian art historian and critic
- Nicolás Borrás, Spanish painter
- Barthel Bruyn the Younger, German portraitist, son of Barthel Bruyn the Elder
- Francesco Camilliani, Italian sculptor of the Renaissance period
- Cesare da Bagno, Italian sculptor and medallist
- Giovanni Battista Fiammeri, Florentine Jesuit painter
- Lattanzio Gambara, Italian painter, active in Renaissance and Mannerist styles
- Aurelio Luini, Italian painter from Milan
- Simon Pereyns, Flemish painter who worked in Portugal, Spain, and Mexico
- Lorenzo Sabbatini, Italian painter of the Renaissance
- Adamo Scultori, Italian engraver
- Ercole Setti, Italian engraver
- Hendrick van den Broeck, Flemish painter active mainly in Rome
- Cesare Vecellio, Italian engraver and painter
- Ottavio Semini, Italian painter born and trained in Genoa
- : Johan Gregor van der Schardt, Dutch-born sculptor
- : Niccolò Circignani, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period
Deaths
- February 24 – Properzia de' Rossi, Italian female Renaissance sculptor
- April 28 – Niklaus Manuel, Swiss dramaturg, painter, graphic artist and politician
- date unknown
- *Marco Basaiti, Venetian Greek painter and a rival of Giovanni Bellini
- *Quentin Matsys, Flemish painter
- *Bartolomeo Suardi, Italian painter and architect
- *Domenico Panetti, Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Ferrara
- *Kanō Masanobu, chief painter of the Ashikaga shogunate, founder of the Kanō school of painting
- *Andrea Sabbatini, Italian painter of the Renaissance