1512 in art

Events from the year 1512 in art.

Events

 * Michelangelo completes his nine Sistine Chapel ceiling paintings of the Creation.

Works

 * Hans Baldung – The Trinity and Mystic Pietà
 * Fra Bartolomeo – Madonna in Glory with Saints (altarpiece, Besançon Cathedral, 1511–12)
 * Albrecht Dürer – The Virgin Mary Appearing to St. John on Patmos (woodcut)
 * Leonardo da Vinci – Self-portrait in red chalk (approximate date)
 * Michelangelo – Sistine Chapel ceiling, including the Separation of Light from Darkness (completed)
 * Raphael
 * The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple (fresco in the Raphael Rooms of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican)
 * Portrait of Pope Julius II
 * The Triumph of Galatea (fresco in Villa Farnesina in Rome)
 * Titian – approximate date
 * The Gypsy Madonna
 * La Schiavona
 * The Three Ages of Man
 * Lucas van Leyden – The History of Joseph series of engravings, e.g. Joseph Explains Pharaoh's Dream
 * Bernard van Orley – Triptych of the Carpenters and Masons Corporation of Brussels ("Apostle Altar")

Births

 * date unknown
 * Lazzaro Calvi, Italian painter who frequently collaborated with his brother (died 1587)
 * Luis de Morales, Spanish painter known as "El Divino" (died 1586)
 * Battista del Moro, Italian painter of the Renaissance period active in his native Verona (died 1568)
 * Prospero Fontana, Italian painter of the late Renaissance, (died 1597)
 * (born 1512/1520): Giorgio Ghisi, Italian coppersmith, painter, and engraver (died 1582)
 * 1512/1515: Marcello Venusti, Italian Mannerist painter primarily in Rome (died 1579)

Deaths

 * April 5 - Lazzaro Bastiani, Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in Venice (born 1449)
 * date unknown - Giovanni Cristoforo Romano, Italian sculptor and medallist (born 1456)