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