1544 in art

Events from the year 1544 in art.

Events

 * September 10 - Italian painter Girolamo da Treviso is killed by cannon shot at the First Siege of Boulogne while working as a military engineer for Henry VIII of England.

Works

 * Hans Baldung - The Seven Ages of Woman
 * Luca Cambiaso – Hercules
 * Lucas Cranach the Younger – Hunt in Honour of Charles V at the Castle of Torgau
 * Master John – Lady Mary, daughter to... King Henry the Eighth
 * Giorgio Vasari - Six Tuscan Poets

Births

 * January 24 - Gillis van Coninxloo, Dutch painter of forest landscapes (died 1607)
 * date unknown
 * Jacopo Bertoia, Italian painter of a late-Renaissance or Mannerist style (died 1574)
 * Giovanni Guerra, Italian draughtsman and painter (died 1618)
 * Ambrosius Francken I, Flemish painter (died 1616)
 * Jan de Hoey, Dutch painter (died 1615)
 * Francesco Morandini, Italian painter active in Florence (died 1597)
 * Joos van Winghe, Flemish painter (died 1603)

Deaths

 * July 17 - Giovanni Antonio Sogliani, Italian painter (born 1492)
 * September 10 - Girolamo da Treviso, Italian painter (born 1508)
 * date unknown
 * Chén Chún, Chinese artist specializing in "ink and wash" paintings (born 1483)
 * Vincenzo Civerchio, Italian painter of the Renaissance (born 1470)
 * Jost de Negker, Dutch woodcut-maker, printer and publisher (born 1485)
 * Lucas Horenbout, Flemish artist and court miniaturist to King Henry VIII of England (born 1490/1495)
 * Alessandro Oliverio, Italian painter (born 1500)