1538 in art

Events from the year 1538 in art.

Works

 * Hans Baldung – Ambrosius Volmar Keller
 * Jacopo Bassano – The Supper at Emmaus
 * Hans Holbein the younger
 * Christina of Denmark
 * Prince Edward
 * Michelangelo – Study for the Colonna Pieta
 * Titian – Venus of Urbino

Births

 * Antonio Abondio, Italian sculptor, best known as a medallist and as the pioneer of the coloured wax relief portrait miniature (died 1591)
 * Durante Alberti, Italian painter, member of family of artists (died 1613)
 * Miguel Barroso, Spanish painter (died 1590)
 * Benedetto Caliari, Italian painter (died 1598)
 * Pablo de Céspedes, Spanish painter, poet, and architect (died 1608)
 * Francesco Curia, Italian Renaissance painter (died 1610)
 * Hernando de Ávila, Spanish painter and sculptor (died 1595)

Deaths

 * Hans Dürer, German Renaissance painter, illustrator, and engraver (born 1490)
 * Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, pioneer of landscape in art (born 1480)
 * Giorgio Gandini del Grano, Italian painter of the Parmesan school of Painting (b. unknown)
 * Zhang Lu, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (born 1464)