1524 in art

Events from the year 1524 in art.

Events

 * Marcantonio Raimondi publishes the first set of his erotic engravings I Modi in Rome (perhaps based on paintings by Giulio Romano), which will be suppressed (and Raimondi briefly imprisoned) by order of Pope Clement VII.

Paintings



 * Giovanni Francesco Bembo paints an altarpiece for San Pietro depicting a Madonna with three saints and a donor
 * Hans Holbein the Younger paints Venus and Amor
 * Giovanni Antonio Lappoli executed some frescoes for Visitation for Badia di Sante Fiore e Lucilla and Adoration of the Magi for the church of San Francisco
 * Parmigianino paints a portrait of Gian Galeazzo Sanvitale, Count of Fontanellato
 * Jan Provoost paints The Virgin in Glory at about this date, now in the Hermitage Museum
 * Palma Vecchio completes the Polyptych of Saint Barbara altarpiece for Santa Maria Formosa in Venice (approximate date)
 * Francesco Vecellio completes an altarpiece for San Vito in Cadore

Births

 * date unknown
 * Giovanni Battista Fontana, Italian painter and engraver (died 1587)
 * Hans Sebald Lautensack, German painter and etcher (died 1560)
 * Plautilla Nelli, Florentine religious painter and nun (died 1588)
 * Cipriano Piccolpasso, Italian painter of majolica (died 1579)
 * Willem Thibaut, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1597)
 * probable
 * Paolo Farinati, Italian painter of the Mannerist style (died 1606)
 * Petruccio Ubaldini, Italian calligraphist and illuminator on vellum (died 1600)

Deaths

 * October 5 - Joachim Patinir, Flemish Northern Renaissance history and landscape painter (born 1480)
 * date unknown
 * Girolamo Alibrandi, Italian painter (born 1470)
 * Vasco de la Zarza, Spanish Renaissance sculptor (born unknown)
 * Hans Holbein the Elder, German painter (born 1460)
 * Tommaso Malvito, Italian sculptor (born unknown)
 * Andrea Solari, Italian Renaissance painter (born 1460)
 * Tang Yin, Chinese scholar, painter of the Ming dynasty (born 1470)