1520 in art

Events from the year 1520 in art.

Events

 * Considered the start of the Mannerism art period
 * The oldest known painting depicting Stockholm is painted in the church of Storkyrkan.

Painting

 * Albrecht Altdorfer – Departure of Saint Florian
 * Domenico Campagnola – Gerolamo
 * Gerard David – The Virgin and Child in a landscape (approximate date)
 * Gerard David or circle of Jan Mabuse – Our Lady of the Fly (approximate date)
 * Il Garofalo – Ascension of Christ
 * Quentin Matsys – Portrait of a woman
 * Francesco Melzi – Flora
 * Raphael – Transfiguration
 * Titian – Venus Anadyomene (approximate date)
 * Lucas van Leyden – Lot and his Daughters (approximate date)
 * Jan van Scorel – Sippenaltar
 * Pseudo Jan Wellens de Cock – Calvary (approximate date)
 * Portrait of Francis I of France (completed by this date)

Births

 * February 23 (baptised) - Ercole Procaccini the Elder, Italian painter mainly active in Milan (died 1595)
 * June 29 - Nicolás Factor, Spanish painter of the Renaissance period (died 1583)
 * date unknown
 * Gaspar Becerra, Spanish painter and sculptor (died 1570)
 * Leonardo Brescia, Italian painter (died 1582)
 * Mirabello Cavalori, Italian painter mainly active in Florence (died 1572)
 * Claudio de Arciniega, Spanish sculptor and architect (died 1593)
 * Giacomo del Duca, Italian sculptor (died 1601)
 * Étienne Dupérac, French painter, draughtsman and engraver, topographer and antiquarian (died 1607)
 * Giorgio Ghisi, Italian engraver from Mantua (died 1582)
 * David Kandel, Strasbourg-born botanical illustrator (died 1592)
 * Domenico Poggini, Italian sculptor (died 1590)
 * Giuseppe Porta, Italian painter active mainly in Venice (died 1575)
 * Martin Van Cleve, Flemish painter of the Van Cleve family (died 1570)
 * probable
 * Hans Eworth, Flemish painter (died 1574)
 * Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Flemish printmaker and painter associated with the English court of the mid-16th Century (died 1590)
 * Francesco Imparato, Italian painter active mainly in his natal city of Naples (died 1570)
 * Girolamo Porro, Italian engraver on wood and on copper (died unknown)
 * Martino Rota, Croatian artist and printmaker (died 1583)
 * Hugues Sambin, French sculptor and woodworker (died 1601)
 * (born 1520/1524): Giovanni Battista Moroni, Italian painter of the mannerist period (died 1579)

Deaths

 * April 6 - Raphael, Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance (born 1483)
 * April 11 - Agostino Chigi, Italian banker and patron of the arts (born 1466)
 * December 6 - Bartolomé Ordóñez, Spanish sculptor (born 1480)
 * date unknown
 * Raffaello Botticini - Italian Renaissance painter (born 1474)
 * Sheikh Hamdullah, Ottoman master of Islamic calligraphy (born 1436)
 * Sultan Ali Mashhadi, Persian calligrapher and poet (born 1453)
 * Marx Reichlich, Austrian painter of primarily religious scenes (born 1460)
 * Niccolo Rondinelli, Italian painter active mainly in Ravenna (born 1468)