1500 in art

The year 1500 in art involved some significant events and new works.

Events

 * 26 July: Bartolomeo di Pagholo ("Baccio della Porta") becomes a Dominican friar.
 * Sandro Botticelli begins painting of Adoration of the Christ Child (1500-1510) as a tondo (round painting), oil on panel.

Works

 * Fra Bartolomeo – Annunciation (oil tempera on wood; Uffizi, Florence)
 * Sandro Botticelli – The Mystical Nativity (National Gallery, London)
 * Cima da Conegliano - Madonna and Child (National Museum Wales)
 * Albrecht Dürer
 * Lamentation of Christ (approximate date)
 * Paumgartner altarpiece (approximate date)
 * Self-Portrait
 * Seven Sorrows Polyptych (approximate date)
 * Giorgione – Adoration of the Shepherds (approximate completion date)
 * Pietro Perugino - Vallombrosa Altarpiece

Births

 * 3 November - Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (died 1571)
 * date unknown
 * Hans Sebald Beham, German printmaker, engraver, designer of woodcuts, painter and miniaturist (died 1550)
 * Niccolò Boldrini, Italian engraver (died 1566)
 * Giulio Campi, Italian painter and architect (died 1572)
 * Pompeo Cesura, Italian painter and engraver (died 1571)
 * Jean Chartier, French painter, draughtsman, printer and publisher (died 1580)
 * Pieter Claeissens the Elder, Flemish painter (died 1576)
 * Jean Cousin the Elder, French painter, sculptor, etcher, engraver, and geometrician (died 1593)
 * Juan Vicente Macip (or Vicente Joanes Masip), Spanish painter of the Renaissance period (died 1579)
 * Alessandro Oliverio, Italian painter (died 1544)
 * Niccolò Tribolo, Italian Mannerist artist (died 1550)
 * approximate year of birth
 * Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli, Italian painter of the Parmesan School of Painting (died 1569)
 * Domenico Campagnola, Italian painter and engraver of the Renaissance period (died 1564); he was a pupil of his father, the painter Giulio Campagnola
 * Giovanni Battista Castello, Italianhistorical painter (died 1569/1579)
 * Giovanni Filippo Criscuolo, Italian painter (died 1584)
 * Albrecht Glockendon the Younger, German miniaturist and woodcutter (died 1545)
 * Jean Mone, German-Flemish sculptor (died 1548)
 * Luca Penni, Italian painter, member of the School of Fontainebleau (died 1556)
 * Georg Pencz, German engraver, painter and printmaker (died 1550)
 * Ligier Richier, French sculptor (died 1567)
 * Jan van Amstel, Dutch Northern Renaissance painter (died 1542)
 * Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Flemish Northern Renaissance painter (died 1566)

Deaths

 * date unknown
 * Antonio del Rincón, Spanish painter and artist (born 1446)
 * Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi, Italian painter and sculptor (born 1447)
 * Friedrich Herlin, German painter (born c.1425)
 * Bernardo Tesauro, Neapolitan fresco painter (born 1440)