1522 in art

Events from the year 1522 in art.

Works

 * Antonio da Correggio completes the frescoes of the Vision of St. John on Patmos in the church of San Giovanni Evangelista (Parma).
 * Benedikt Dreyer completes a Gothic altar called the "Antonius altar" for the Burg church in Lübeck.
 * Titian completes the Averoldi Polyptych for the Santi Nazaro e Celso (Brescia).
 * Bernard van Orley completes a triptych for the Brotherhood of the Holy Cross in a chapel of the Saint Walburga church in Veurne.

Painting

 * Hans Baldung – The Stoning of Saint Stephen
 * Hans Holbein – The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb
 * Ludovico Mazzolino
 * Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
 * Madonna and Child with St. Joseph
 * Ortolano Ferrarese – Mourning the Dead Christ (Galleria Borghese, Rome)
 * Lucas van Leyden – Virgin and Child with the Magdalene and a Donor

Births

 * Antonio Campi, Italian painter (died 1587)
 * Bernardino Campi, Italian Renaissance painter (died 1591)
 * Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch writer, engraver, philosopher, translator, politician and theologian (died 1590)
 * Federico Brandani, Italian sculptor and stuccoist who worked in an urbane Mannerist style as a court artist (died 1575)
 * Jean Cousin the Younger, French painter, sculptor (died 1595)
 * Pietro Marescalchi, Italian Renaissance painter (died 1589)
 * Ludger Tom Ring the Younger, German painter and draughtsman (died 1584)

Deaths

 * Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, Italian early Renaissance sculptor, architect and engineer (born c. 1447)
 * Paolo Moranda Cavazzola, Italian painter active mainly in his hometown of Verona (born 1486)
 * Piero di Cosimo, Florentine painter (born 1462)
 * Fiorenzo di Lorenzo, Italian painter of the Umbrian school (born 1440)
 * (died 1522-1532): Colijn de Coter, early Netherlandish painter who produced mainly altarpieces (born 1440/1445)