1541 in art

Events

• Michelangelo completes his fresco The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.
• Cardinal Alexander writes to Bishop Marco Vigerio discussing frescoes to be done by Michelangelo for the Cappella Paolina.

Works

• Battista Franco Veneziano paints fresco of the Arrest of John the Baptist for the Oratory of San Giovanni Decollato
• Pietro Negroni paints Adoration of Magi
• Titian – The Marquis of Vasto addressing his troops
• Antoine Caron – Dionysius Areopagite and the Eclipse of Sun

Births

• El Greco, painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance
• Aert Mijtens, Flemish Renaissance painter
• Yi Chong, Korean painter

Deaths

• January 6 - Bernard van Orley, Flemish Northern Renaissance painter and draughtsman
• August - Valentin Bousch, glass painter
• date unknown
• *Jean Clouet, miniaturist and painter who worked in France during the Renaissance
• *Gerard Horenbout, Flemish miniaturist
• *Stanisław Samostrzelnik, Polish Renaissance painter and Cistercian monk