1542 in art

Events from the year 1542 in art.

Events

 * Painter Paul Lautensack is expelled from Nuremberg as a result of his Reformist fanaticism.

Paintings

 * Wen Zhengming – Wintry trees after Li Cheng
 * Titian
 * Portrait of Clarissa Strozzi
 * Portrait of Ranuccio Farnese
 * Bronzini – Crossing of the Red Sea
 * Domenico Beccafumi – Madonna and Child with Infant John the Baptist

Births

 * date unknown - Joris Hoefnagel. Flemish painter and engraver (died 1601)
 * probable
 * Gillis Coignet, Flemish painter (died 1599)
 * Ambroise Dubois, Flemish painter of the second School of Fontainebleau (died 1614)
 * Felice Riccio, Italian painter (died 1605)
 * Andrea Vicentino, Italian Mannerist painter (died 1617)
 * Federico Zuccari, Italian Mannerist painter and architect (died 1609)

Deaths

 * date unknown
 * Dosso Dossi, Italian Renaissance painter who belonged to the Ferrara School of Painting (born 1490)
 * Hans Krafft the Elder, German medallist (born 1481)
 * Jan van Amstel, Dutch Northern Renaissance painter (born 1500)
 * probable
 * Francesco Xanto Avelli, Italian ceramicist (born 1487)
 * Vasco Fernandes, Portuguese Renaissance painter (born 1475)