1505 in art

Events from the year 1505 in art.

Events

 * Pope Julius II summons Michelangelo to Rome to design the pope's tomb. The contract is revised five times and only three of forty large figures are ever executed.

Works
Many dates approximate
 * Giovanni Bellini
 * Madonna del Prato
 * San Zaccaria Altarpiece
 * Hieronymus Bosch
 * The Hermit Saint (triptych)
 * St. Jerome at Prayer
 * Vittore Carpaccio
 * Holy Family and donors
 * Preparation of Christ's Tomb
 * Piero di Cosimo
 * The Finding of Vulcan on Lemnos
 * The Adoration of the Christ Child
 * The Forest Fire
 * Albrecht Dürer - Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman
 * Giorgione - The Three Philosophers
 * Leonardo da Vinci – The Battle of Anghiari (lost painting)
 * Lorenzo Lotto
 * Allegory of Virtue and Vice
 * Portrait of Bishop Bernardo de' Rossi
 * Andrea Previtali – Scenes from Tebaldeo's Eclogues
 * Raphael
 * Christ Blessing
 * Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
 * Madonna del Granduca
 * St. Michael
 * Small Cowper Madonna
 * Three Graces
 * Young Man with an Apple
 * Tilman Riemenschneider - Holy Blood altarpiece, St. James's Church, Rothenburg ob der Tauber (woodcarving, completed)
 * Portrait of Henry VII of England

Births

 * date unknown
 * Pomponio Amalteo, Italian painter of the Venetian school (died 1588)
 * Lambert Lombard, Flemish Renaissance painter, architect and theorist for the Prince-Bishopric of Liège (died 1566)
 * Jakob Seisenegger, Austrian portrait painter used by Charles V (died 1567)
 * probable
 * Cornelis Anthonisz., Dutch painter, engraver and mapmaker (died 1553)
 * Pierre Bontemps, French sculptor (died 1568)
 * Matthys Cock, Flemish landscape painter (died 1548)
 * Juste de Juste, Franco-Italian sculptor and printmaker in etching (died 1559)
 * Jacques du Broeucq, Dutch sculptor and architect (died 1584)
 * Léonard Limousin, French painter, member of Limoges enamel painter family (died 1577)

Deaths

 * date unknown
 * Andrea Aleksi, Albanian architect, painter and sculptor (born 1425)
 * Matteo de Fedeli, Italian Renaissance painter (born 1450)
 * Filippo Mazzola, Italian Renaissance painter (born 1460)
 * Francesco Marmitta, Italian painter and jeweller (born 1460)
 * Ni Duan, Imperial Chinese painter of people and landscapes (born 1436)
 * Sebastiano Schiavone da Rovigno, Venetian woodcarver and marquetry artist ("Zoppo") (born 1420)
 * probable - Bartolomeo Caporali, Italian painter (born 1420)