1534 in art

Events

• Michelangelo begins work on the fresco The Last Judgment to be painted on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel

Works

• Hans Sebald Beham – Scenes from the Life of David
• Corneille de Lyon – Portrait of a Man
• Lorenzo Lotto – Annunciation
• Bernard van Orley – ''Altarpiece of Calvary''

Births

• December 16, Hans Bol, Flemish painter
• Lucas de Heere, Flemish Portrait painting, poet and writer
• Dirck Barendsz, Dutch painter who was born and died in Amsterdam

Deaths

• March 5 - Antonio da Correggio, painter of the Parma school of the Italian Renaissance
• probable - Marcantonio Raimondi, Italian engraver