1516 in art

Events from the year 1516 in art.

Events

 * Leonardo da Vinci moves to France and enters the service of King Francis I of France, being given the use of the manor house Clos Lucé connected via tunnel to the king's residence at the Château d'Amboise. He probably brings the Mona Lisa with him.

Works

 * Fra Bartolomeo
 * Pietà
 * Scene with Christ in the Temple
 * Hieronymus Bosch – Christ Carrying the Cross
 * Cima da Conegliano
 * St Lanfranc enthroned between St John the Baptist and St Liberius
 * St Peter Enthroned with St John the Baptist and St Paul (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)
 * Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da Imola – The Virgin and Child with Saints John, Apollinaris and Catherine and a Bishop
 * Leonardo da Vinci – St. John the Baptist
 * Matthias Grünewald – Isenheim Altarpiece (completed, with sculptures by Nikolaus Hagenauer)
 * Lorenzo Lotto – Martinengo Altarpiece (Church of Santi Bartolomeo e Stefano, Bergamo)
 * Michelangelo – Dying Slave (marble)
 * Pontormo
 * Madonna with Child and Saints (approximate date)
 * Visitation of the Virgin and St Elizabeth (fresco in Santissima Annunziata, Florence, completed)
 * Raphael
 * Cartoons of scenes from the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles for tapestries for the Sistine Chapel (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
 * Portrait of Cardinal Bibbiena
 * Portrait of Andrea Navagero and Agostino Beazzano
 * Titian – The Tribute Money

Births

 * February 16 - Prospero Spani, Italian sculptor (died 1584)
 * date unknown
 * Antonio Bernieri, Italian painter (died 1565)
 * Cristóvão Lopes, Portuguese portrait and altarpiece painter (died 1594)
 * Domenico Riccio, Italian painter in a Mannerist style from Verona (died 1567)

Deaths

 * June 1 - Biagio d'Antonio, Italian painter (born 1446)
 * August 9 (bur.) – Hieronymus Bosch, Early Netherlandish painter of the 15th and 16th centuries (born c.1450)
 * c. November 26? - Giovanni Bellini, Venetian Renaissance painter (born c.1430)
 * date unknown
 * Giuliano da Sangallo, Florentine sculptor and architect (born c.1443)
 * Jacopo de' Barbari, Italian painter and printmaker (born 1440)
 * Antonio del Massaro, Italian Quattrocento painters (born c. 1450)
 * Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Italian painter of the High Renaissance who worked in the studio of Leonardo da Vinci (born 1466/1467)
 * Antonio Lombardo, Italian sculptor (born 1458)