1508 in art

Events from the year 1508 in art.

Events

 * December - Michelangelo begins painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling in the Holy See of Rome on a commission by Pope Julius II (signed May 10). This year also he completes a bronze statue of the Pope for San Petronio Basilica in Bologna, destroyed in 1511.

Works

 * Fra Bartolomeo - Holy Father, St. Mary Magdalene and St. Catherine of Siena
 * Vittore Carpaccio - The Presentation of the Virgin (approximate date)
 * Albrecht Dürer
 * Heller Altarpiece (possible date)
 * Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand
 * Giorgione (approximate dates)
 * Shepherd with a Flute
 * The Tempest
 * La Vecchia (Old Woman)
 * Lorenzo Lotto
 * Madonna with Child between Sts. Flavian and Onuphrius
 * Recanati Polyptych
 * Raphael
 * Colonna Madonna
 * Niccolini-Cowper Madonna
 * The Tempi Madonna
 * Lucas van Leyden – Mohammed and the Murdered Monk (engraving)

Births

 * November 25 - Cristofano Gherardi, Italian Mannerist painter (died 1556)
 * date unknown
 * Livio Agresti, Italian painter, one of the members of the "Forlì painting school" (died 1580)
 * Pieter Aertsen, Dutch historical painter (died 1575)
 * Antonio da Trento, Italian artist especially of woodcuts (died 1550)
 * Girolamo da Treviso, Italian painter (died 1544)
 * Giovanni Bernardo Lama, Italian painter (died 1579)
 * Qian Gu, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (died c.1578)
 * 1508/1510: Lodovico Dolce, Italian art theorist (died 1568)
 * 1507/1508: Wenzel Jamnitzer, Northern Mannerist goldsmith, artist, and printmaker in etching (died 1585)

Deaths

 * Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis, Italian Renaissance painter from Milan (born 1455)
 * Wu Wei, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (born 1459)
 * 1508/1509: Bernt Notke, German painter and sculptor (born 1435)