1511 in art

Events from the year 1511 in art.

Events

 * Albrecht Dürer publishes his woodcut series "Life of the Virgin", the "Great Passion" and "Little Passion".
 * Michelangelo's 1508 bronze statue of Pope Julius II in San Petronio Basilica, Bologna is destroyed.
 * The Miracle of 1511, a festival in Brussels in which the locals built approximately 110 satirical snowmen.

Painting

 * Albrecht Dürer – Adoration of the Trinity (Landauer Altarpiece)
 * Matthias Grünewald – The Small Crucifixion
 * Michelangelo – The Creation of the Sun, Moon and Planets
 * Raphael
 * Frescoes in Raphael Rooms of Apostolic Palace in Rome
 * Cardinal and Theological Virtues
 * The Parnassus
 * The School of Athens
 * Madonna of Foligno
 * Madonna of Loreto
 * Portrait of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese
 * Titian
 * The Gypsy Madonna
 * Miracle of the Jealous Husband (fresco, Scuola del Santo, Padua)
 * The Miracle of the Speaking Babe
 * St. Mark Enthroned (1510 or 1511; Santa Maria della Salute, Venice)

Sculpture

 * Adam Dircksz (attrib.) – Miniature altarpiece (British Museum, London, WB.232)

Births

 * Bartolomeo Ammanati, architect and sculptor (died 1592)
 * Camillo Boccaccino, Italian painter active mainly in Cremona and regions of Lombardy (died 1546)
 * Jean Court, enamel painter (died 1583)
 * Zhang Han, Chinese scholar-official, literary author, painter, and essayist (died 1593)
 * Bernardino Lanini, Italian Renaissance painter active mainly in Milan (died 1578)
 * Lelio Orsi, Italian Renaissance painter of the Reggio Emilia school (died 1587)
 * Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect, who is today famous for his biographies of Italian artists (died 1574)

Deaths

 * Simón de Colonia, Spanish architect and sculptor (b. unknown)
 * Raimo Epifanio Tesauro, Italian Renaissance painter specializing in frescoes (born 1480)