1546 in art

Events from the year 1546 in art.

Events

 * The plan for the new St. Peter's Basilica dome, begun by Bramante, is continued by the new chief architect, Michelangelo.
 * The Farnese Hercules is removed from the Baths of Caracalla by Cardinal Cardinal Alessandro Farnese to the Palazzo Farnese in Rome.

Paintings

 * Domenico Beccafumi – Pagan Child Couple
 * Jacopo Bassano – The Adoration of the Shepherds
 * Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta – Holy Family with Saint Michael
 * Lorenzo Lotto – San Giacomo dell'Orio Altarpiece
 * William Scrots
 * Anamorphic portrait of Edward, Prince of Wales
 * Henry Howard Earl of Surrey (attributed)
 *  Elizabeth as a princess
 * Titian – Pope Paul III and his Grandsons

Births

 * March 21 - Bartholomeus Spranger, Flemish Northern Mannerist painter, draughtsman, and etcher (died 1611)

Deaths

 * January 4 - Camillo Boccaccino, Italian painter active mainly in Cremona and regions of Lombardy (born 1511)
 * January 11 - Gaudenzio Ferrari, Italian painter and sculptor of the Renaissance (born 1471)
 * August 1 - Peter Faber (or Pierre Favre), French Jesuit painter and sculptor (born 1506)
 * October 23 - Peter Flötner, German designer, sculptor, and printmaker (born 1490)
 * November 1 - Giulio Romano, Italian painter and architect (born 1499)
 * date unknown
 * Valerio Belli, Italian engraver and medallion maker (born 1470)
 * Jan van Calcar, Netherlands-born Italian painter, pupil of Titian (born 1499)
 * Bartolomeo Veneto - Italian portrait painter (born 1502)
 * probable - Marinus van Reymerswaele, Dutch Renaissance painter (born 1490