1541 in art

Events from the year 1541 in art.

Events

 * Michelangelo completes his fresco The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.
 * Cardinal Alexander writes to Bishop Marco Vigerio discussing frescoes to be done by Michelangelo for the Cappella Paolina.

Works

 * Battista Franco Veneziano paints fresco of the Arrest of John the Baptist for the Oratory of San Giovanni Decollato
 * Pietro Negroni paints Adoration of Magi
 * Titian – The Marquis of Vasto addressing his troops
 * Antoine Caron – Dionysius Areopagite and the Eclipse of Sun(image)

Births
date unknown
 * El Greco (or Domenikos Theotokopoulos), painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance (died 1614)
 * Aert Mijtens, Flemish Renaissance painter (died 1602)
 * Yi Chong, Korean painter (died 1622)

Deaths

 * January 6 - Bernard van Orley, Flemish Northern Renaissance painter and draughtsman (born 1487-1491)
 * August - Valentin Bousch, glass painter (born 1490)
 * date unknown
 * Jean Clouet, miniaturist and painter who worked in France during the Renaissance (born 1480)
 * Gerard Horenbout, Flemish miniaturist (born 1465)
 * Stanisław Samostrzelnik, Polish Renaissance painter and Cistercian monk (born 1490)