1544 in art

Events

• September 10 - Italian painter Girolamo da Treviso is killed by cannon shot at the First Siege of Boulogne while working as a military engineer for Henry VIII of England.

Works

• Hans Baldung - The Seven Ages of Woman
• Luca Cambiaso – Hercules
• Lucas Cranach the Younger – Hunt in Honour of Charles V at the Castle of Torgau
• Master John – Lady Mary, daughter to... King Henry the Eighth
• Giorgio Vasari - ''Six Tuscan Poets''

Births

• January 24 - Gillis van Coninxloo, Dutch painter of forest landscapes
• date unknown
• *Jacopo Bertoia, Italian painter of a late-Renaissance or Mannerist style
• *Giovanni Guerra, Italian draughtsman and painter
• *Ambrosius Francken I, Flemish painter
• *Jan de Hoey, Dutch painter
• *Francesco Morandini, Italian painter active in Florence
• *Joos van Winghe, Flemish painter

Deaths

• July 17 - Giovanni Antonio Sogliani, Italian painter
• September 10 - Girolamo da Treviso, Italian painter
• date unknown
• *Chén Chún, Chinese artist specializing in "ink and wash" paintings
• *Vincenzo Civerchio, Italian painter of the Renaissance
• *Jost de Negker, Dutch woodcut-maker, printer and publisher
• *Lucas Horenbout, Flemish artist and court miniaturist to King Henry VIII of England
• *Alessandro Oliverio, Italian painter