1549 in art

Events

• Sculptor Hans Vischer, the last of the Vischer Family of Nuremberg, leaves the city.

Works

• Bartolommeo Bandinelli - God the Father, in the cloister of Santa Croce, Florence
• Bronzino – Portrait of Giovanni de' Medici
• Tintoretto – ''St. Roch in the Hospital''

Births

• July 5 - Francesco Maria del Monte, Italian Cardinal and arts patron
• September 1 - Cesare Aretusi, Italian painter
• date unknown - Giovanni Contarini, Venetian painter
• probable - Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Italian painter

Deaths

• February 14 - Il Sodoma, Italian Mannerist painter
• March - Aelbrecht Bouts, Dutch painter
• date unknown - Jean Juste, Italian sculptor