1538 in art
Events from the year 1538 in art.
Works
- Hans Baldung – Ambrosius Volmar Keller
- Jacopo Bassano – The Supper at Emmaus
- Hans Holbein the younger
- * Christina of Denmark
- * Prince Edward
- Michelangelo – Study for the Colonna Pieta
- Titian – ''Venus of Urbino''
Births
- Antonio Abondio, Italian sculptor, best known as a medallist and as the pioneer of the coloured wax relief portrait miniature
- Durante Alberti, Italian painter, member of family of artists
- Miguel Barroso, Spanish painter
- Benedetto Caliari, Italian painter
- Pablo de Céspedes, Spanish painter, poet, and architect
- Francesco Curia, Italian Renaissance painter
- Hernando de Ávila, Spanish painter and sculptor
Deaths
- Hans Dürer, German Renaissance painter, illustrator, and engraver
- Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, pioneer of landscape in art
- Giorgio Gandini del Grano, Italian painter of the Parmesan school of Painting
- Zhang Lu, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty