1526 in art

Events from the year 1526 in art.

Events

 * c. September - German artist Hans Holbein the Younger begins a two-year stay in England.

Works

 * Lucas Cranach the Elder – Kattarina Luterin
 * Albrecht Dürer
 * Erasmus of Rotterdam (engraving)
 * The Four Apostles
 * Portrait of Hieronymus Holzschuher
 * Portrait of Jakob Muffel
 * Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da Imola – The Virgin and Child with Saints John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, Joachim and Anne
 * Lucas Horenbout – Portrait miniatures (approximate date)
 * Catherine of Aragon with a monkey
 * Catherine of Aragon
 * Henry VIII
 * Hans Holbein the Younger
 * Darmstadt Madonna
 * Lais of Corinth
 * Lorenzo Lotto
 * Christ Carrying the Cross
 * Portrait of a Young Man
 * Sebastiano del Piombo – Portrait of Andrea Doria

Births

 * October 30 - Hubert Goltzius, Dutch painter, engraver and printer (died 1583)
 * date unknown
 * Federico Barocci, Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker (died 1612)
 * Juan Fernández Navarrete, Spanish Mannerist painter (died 1579)
 * Küplüceli Öznur, Ottoman Turkish Divan poet and calligrapher (died 1628)
 * Giovanni Battista Zelotti, Italian painter (died 1578)
 * probable
 * Jacob Grimmer, Flemish landscape painter (died 1590)
 * Nicolaus van Aelst, Flemish engraver and painter (died 1613)
 * (1526/1527) Melchior Lorck, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker of Danish-German origin (died 1583)

Deaths

 * date unknown
 * Andrea Ferrucci, Italian sculptor (born 1465)
 * Liberale da Verona, Italian painter active mainly in Verona (born 1441)
 * Giovanni di Niccolò Mansueti, Italian painter (b. unknown)
 * Jerg Ratgeb, German painter (born 1480; executed for treason)
 * Jacopo Torni, Florentine painter (born 1476)
 * Bernardo Zenale, Italian painter and architect (born 1460)
 * probable
 * Nicolò Brancaleon, Venetian-born painter who worked in Ethiopia (born 1460)
 * (1526/1529) Hans Maler zu Schwaz, German painter and portraitist (born 1480)