1501 in art

Events from the year 1501 in art.

Works

 * Giovanni Bellini – Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan
 * Giorgione – The Three Ages of Man
 * Leonardo da Vinci – Madonna of the Yarnwinder
 * Raphael – Baronci altarpiece

Births

 * date unknown
 * Girolamo da Carpi, court painter and decorator to the Duke d'Este (died 1556)
 * Perino del Vaga, Italian painter (died 1547)
 * Wang Guxiang, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (died 1568)
 * Wen Jia, Chinese painter of landscapes and flowers during the Ming Dynasty (died 1583)

Deaths

 * Gil de Siloé, Spanish Gothic sculptor of Flemish origin (born 1440)
 * Bartolomeo di Giovanni, early renaissance Italian painter of the Florentine School (b. unknown)
 * Ali-Shir Nava'i, Central Asian politician, mystic, linguist, painter and poet (born 1441)
 * Antonio Rinaldeschi, Italian gambler, executed for throwing dung at a painting of the Virgin Mary above the doorway of the church of Santa Maria degli Alberghi in Florence (born unknown)
 * 1501/1502 – Vittorio Crivelli, Italian painter (born 1440)