1536 in art

Events

• Piazza di Venezia opened in Rome.
• Hans Holbein the Younger is employed as King's Painter to Henry VIII of England by this date.

Works

• Bramantino – The Flight into Egypt
• Jean Clouet – Portrait of Guillaume Budé
• Hans Holbein
• * Portrait of Henry VIII
• * Portrait Miniature of Margaret Roper
• Giulio Romano – Tarquin and Lucretia
• Titian – La Belle
• Jan Sanders van Hemessen – ''The Prodigal Son''

Births

• Bernardo Buontalenti, Italian stage designer, architect, theatrical designer, military engineer and artist
• Vincenzo Campi, Italian painter of the Renaissance
• Sebastiano Filippi, Italian late Renaissance-Mannerist painter of the School of Ferrara
• Maso da San Friano, Italian painter active in Florence
• Santi di Tito, Italian painter of Late-Mannerist or proto-Baroque style
• Teodoro Ghisi, Italian engraver
• Ottaviano Nonni, Italian architect, sculptor, and painter
• Barthélemy Prieur, French sculptor
• Siyâvash, Iranian illustrator of Georgian origin known for his miniatures
• Domenico Vitus, Italian engraver

Deaths

• Michele da Verona, Italian painter of the Renaissance period
• Antonello Gagini, Italian sculptor of the High Renaissance
• Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter
• Pedro Romana, Spanish Renaissance painter
• Hans Weiditz, German Renaissance woodcut artist