1545 in art

Events from the year 1545 in art.

Paintings

 * Bronzino
 * Eleanor of Toledo with her son Giovanni de' Medici
 * Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici
 * Portrait of Giovanni de' Medici as a Child
 * Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time
 * Lucas Cranach the Younger – The Conversion of St. Paul
 * Gerlach Flicke – Thomas Cranmer
 * Master John – Catherine Parr (approximate date)
 * Michelangelo – The Conversion of Saul
 * Francesco de' Rossi (Il Salviati) – Triumph of Camillus (fresco for Cosimo I de' Medici in Sala dell'Udienza, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence (completed))
 * Titian – some dates approximate
 * Portrait of a Young Englishman
 * Portrait of Lavinia Vecellio
 * Portrait of Pietro Aretino
 * Portrait of Pope Paul III
 * Daniele da Volterra (after drawings by Michelangelo) – Descent from the Cross (approximate date)

Sculpture

 * (approx. date) – Hans Gieng of Fribourg completes work on the fountains of Bern in Switzerland.

Births

 * date unknown
 * Farrukh Beg, Mughal painter who served in the court of Muhammad Hakim (died 1615)
 * Francesco da Urbino, Italian painter (died 1582)
 * Hans Collaert, Flemish engraver and draughtsman (died 1628)
 * Frans Pourbus the Elder, Flemish Renaissance painter primarily of religious and portraits (died 1581)
 * William Rogers, English engraver (died 1604)
 * Marco Vecellio, Italian painter, nephew of Titian (died 1611)
 * Juan Zariñena, Spanish painter (died 1634)

Deaths

 * September - Hans Baldung, German Renaissance artist as painter and printmaker in woodcut (born 1484)
 * date unknown
 * Alejo Fernandez, Spanish painter best known for his portrait of Christopher Columbus (born 1475)
 * Rueland Frueauf the Younger - German Late-Gothic painter (born 1470)
 * Albrecht Glockendon the Younger, German miniaturist and woodcutter (born 1500)
 * Vicente Juan Masip - Spanish painter of the Renaissance period (born 1475)
 * Wang E, Chinese landscape painter (born 1465)