1525 in art

Events from the year 1525 in art.

Events

 * Albrecht Dürer publishes his work on geometry, The Four Books on Measurement ("Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt" or "Instructions for Measuring with Compass and Ruler") at Nuremberg
 * Lucas Horenbout is named royal "pictor maker" to King Henry VIII of England, and will introduce the techniques of portrait miniatures to England
 * Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen is named Court Painter to Archduchess Margaret of Austria

Painting

 * Lucas Cranach the Elder
 * Cardinal Albert of Brandenburg before Christ on the Cross (approximate date)
 * Venus and Cupid
 * Antonio da Correggio – Venus with Mercury and Cupid or The School of Love (approximate date)
 * Michelangelo – Head of Bearded Man Shouting
 * Pontormo – Youth in a Pink Cloak
 * Jan Provoost – Last Judgment (Groeningemuseum)
 * Nicola da Urbino – Panel with the Adoration of the Magi
 * Bernard van Orley – The Last Judgment (triptych, commissioned for Antwerp)
 * Bartolomeo Veneto – Flora (approximate date)
 * Pseudo Jan Wellens de Cock – The Crucifixion (triptych, approximate date)

Sculpture

 * Conrad Meit – Judith with the head of Holofernes (alabaster)

Armor

 * Kolman Helmschmid – Portions of a Costume Armor (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Births

 * date unknown
 * Cesare Baglioni, Italian painter specializing in quadratura (died 1590)
 * Pieter Balten, Flemish Renaissance painter (died 1584)
 * Ferrando Bertelli, Italian engraver of the Renaissance period (died unknown)
 * René Boyvin, French engraver who lived in Angers (died 1598)
 * Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Netherlandish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (died 1569)
 * Ascanio Condivi, Italian painter and writer, primarily remembered as the biographer of Michelangelo (died 1574)
 * Cristofano dell'Altissimo, Italian painter primarily working in Florence (died 1605)
 * Guillaume Le Bé, French engraver (died 1598)
 * Giulio Mazzoni, Italian painter and stuccoist (died 1618)
 * Francesco Terzi, Italian painter of primarily religious themes (died 1600)
 * Giovanni Maria Verdizotti, Venetian artist and poet (died 1600)
 * Juan Valverde de Amusco, Italian anatomist and engraver (died 1587)
 * Francisco Venegas, Spanish painter active in Portugal (died 1594)
 * Alessandro Vittoria, Italian Mannerist sculptor of the Venetian school (died 1608)
 * Song Xu, Chinese landscape painter (died unknown)
 * 1525/1530: Hans Collaert, Flemish engraver (died 1580)

Deaths

 * January 24 - Franciabigio, Italian painter of the Florentine Renaissance (born 1482)
 * June - Girolamo di Benvenuto, Italian painter, son of Benvenuto di Giovanni (born 1470)
 * June 10 - Tosa Mitsunobu, Japanese painter and founder of the Tosa school of painting (born 1434)
 * August 4 - Andrea della Robbia, Italian Renaissance sculptor, especially in ceramics (born 1435)
 * date unknown
 * Bernardino Bergognone - Italian Renaissance painter of the Milanese school (born 1455)
 * Boccaccio Boccaccino, Italian painter of the Emilian school (born 1467)
 * Vittore Carpaccio, Italian painter of the Venetian school (born 1460)
 * Nunziata d'Antonio, Italian painter, fireworks artist, and bombardier (born 1468)
 * Attavante degli Attavanti, Italian miniature painter (born 1452)
 * Ortolano Ferrarese, Italian painter of the Ferrara School (born 1480 or 1490)
 * Davide Ghirlandaio, Italian painter and mosaicist (born 1452)
 * Michael Sittow, painter from modern Estonia who was trained in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting (born 1469)
 * Sōami, Japanese painter and landscape artist (b. unknown)
 * Jacob van Utrecht, Flemish early Renaissance painter (born 1479)