1515 in art

Events from the year 1515 in art.

Events

 * Giovanni Antonio da Brescia's engraving of the Belvedere Torso attracts the interest of connoisseurs and artists outside Rome.

Works

 * Giovanni Bellini – Naked Young Woman in Front of the Mirror
 * Cima da Conegliano – Virgin and Child with Saints and Donors (Cleveland Museum of Art)
 * Piero di Cosimo – The Myth of Prometheus (series)
 * Lucas Cranach the Elder – The Massacre of the Innocents (approximate date)
 * Gerard David – Virgin and Child with Four Angels (approximate completion date)
 * Albrecht Dürer
 * "Arch of Honor" (printed 1517/18)
 * The Rhinoceros (woodcut)
 * Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da Imola – The Virgin and Child with Saints Sebastian, Roch, Cosmas and Damian
 * Jan Gossaert – The Adoration of the Kings
 * Matthias Grünewald – Isenheim Altarpiece (Unterlinden Museum, Colmar, Alsace)
 * Leonardo da Vinci – Bacchus
 * Jacopo Pontormo – Pharaoh with his Butler and Baker
 * Raphael
 * Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione (probable date)
 * Portrait of Bindo Altoviti
 * La velata
 * Titian (some dates approximate)
 * Noli me tangere
 * Salome
 * Tarquin and Lucretia (attributed)
 * Vanity
 * Violante
 * Woman with a Mirror
 * Young Woman in a Black Dress

Births

 * October 4 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter and wood-engraver (died 1586)
 * probable
 * Jean Bullant, French sculptor and architect (died 1578)
 * Nicolas Denisot, French Renaissance poet and painter (died 1559)
 * Willem Key, Flemish painter (died 1568)
 * (born 1515/1520) Lambert Sustris, Dutch painter (died 1584)

Deaths

 * November 5 – Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian Renaissance painter (born 1474)
 * date unknown - Pietro Lombardo, Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect (born 1435)
 * probable
 * Giulio Campagnola, Italian engraver and painter, inventor of the stipple technique in engraving (born 1482)
 * Vincenzo Foppa, Italian painter (born 1430)