1517 in art

Events from the year 1517 in art.

Events

 * Hans Baldung leaves Freiburg and returns to Strasbourg.
 * Sebastiano del Piombo begins painting The Raising of Lazarus (circa 1517).
 * Perugino completes the altarpiece for the San Agostino Church in Perugia.
 * Pontormo begins work on Joseph in Egypt (completed in 1518).
 * Raphael begins decorating the Logge Vaticane (completed in 1519).
 * Domenico Fancelli completes sculpting the tomb of the Catholic Monarchs in the Royal Chapel of Granada.

Works

 * Andrea del Sarto – Madonna of the Harpies
 * Hans Baldung – Death and the Maiden
 * Lucas Cranach the Elder – Portrait of a Saxon Princess
 * Niklaus Manuel Deutsch – Death and the Maiden
 * Lorenzo Lotto – Susanna and the Elders
 * Quentin Matsys – Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus
 * Pontormo – St. Quentin
 * Raphael
 * Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary (Lo Spasimo; approximate date)
 * The Path of Suffering
 * Raphael's workshop
 * frescos for "Raphael Rooms" in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican
 * The Coronation of Charlemagne (probably executed by Gianfrancesco Penni)
 * The Oath of Leo III

Births

 * September 6 - Francisco de Holanda, Portuguese humanist and painter (born c. 1517, died 1585)
 * December 15 - Giacomo Gaggini, Italian sculptor (died 1598)
 * date unknown
 * Frans Floris, Flemish painter and one of a large family trained to the study of art in Flanders (born c. 1517, died 1570)
 * Willem Mahue, Flemish painter (died 1569)
 * approximate date - Antonis Mor, Dutch portrait painter (died 1577)
 * 1517/1524: Niccolò Circignani, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period (died 1596)

Deaths

 * January 5 – Francesco Raibolini known as Francesco Francia, Bolognese painter and medalist (born 1450)
 * October 31 – Fra Bartolommeo, Florentine painter (born 1472)
 * date unknown
 * Nikola Božidarević, Croatian painter (born 1460)
 * Cima da Conegliano, Italian Renaissance painter (born 1459 or 1460, died 1517 or 1518)
 * Guidoccio Cozzarelli - Italian Renaissance painter and miniaturist (born 1450)