1542 in art

Events

• Painter Paul Lautensack is expelled from Nuremberg as a result of his Reformist fanaticism.

Works

Paintings

• Wen Zhengming – Wintry trees after Li Cheng
• Titian
• *Portrait of Clarissa Strozzi
• *Portrait of Ranuccio Farnese
• Bronzini – Crossing of the Red Sea
• Domenico Beccafumi – ''Madonna and Child with Infant John the Baptist''

Births

• date unknown - Joris Hoefnagel. Flemish painter and engraver
• probable
• *Gillis Coignet, Flemish painter
• *Ambroise Dubois, Flemish painter of the second School of Fontainebleau
• *Felice Riccio, Italian painter
• *Andrea Vicentino, Italian Mannerist painter
• *Federico Zuccari, Italian Mannerist painter and architect

Deaths

• date unknown
• *Dosso Dossi, Italian Renaissance painter who belonged to the Ferrara School of Painting
• *Hans Krafft the Elder, German medallist
• *Jan van Amstel, Dutch Northern Renaissance painter
• probable
• *Francesco Xanto Avelli, Italian ceramicist
• *Vasco Fernandes, Portuguese Renaissance painter