1547 in art

Events from the year 1547 in art.

Events

 * Edward VI of England issues Reformation injunctions which leads to the destruction of many rood screens, and many religious works painted over

Paintings

 * Lucas Cranach the Elder – Last Supper (Wittenberg)
 * Gianfrancesco Penni – Lust
 * Andrea Schiavone – Adoration of the Magi
 * Tintoretto – Esther Before Ahasuerus
 * Titian
 * Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos
 * Venus and Musician (original version, possibly lost)

Births

 * date unknown
 * Jacopo Ligozzi, Italian painter, illustrator, designer, and miniaturist of the late Renaissance and early Mannerist styles (died 1627)
 * Matteo Perez d'Aleccio, Italian painter of devotional, historical and maritime subjects (died 1616)
 * Unkoku Togan, Japanese painter (died 1618)
 * probable
 * Nicholas Hilliard, English goldsmith and limner best known for his portrait miniatures (died 1619)
 * Jan Soens, Dutch painter from 's-Hertogenbosch (died 1611)
 * Ding Yunpeng, Chinese painter especially of human figures and landscapes (died 1628)

Deaths

 * June 21 – Sebastiano del Piombo (byname of Sebastiano Luciani), Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter who combined the influences of the Venetian school and the Roman school (born 1485)
 * August 3 – Fra Paolo da Pistoia, Italian painter and Dominican friar (born 1490)
 * August 31 - Nicola Filotesio, Italian painter, architect and sculptor (born 1480)
 * October 14 - Perino del Vaga, Italian painter (born 1501)
 * December 23 - Pellegrino da San Daniele, Italian painter in the late-Quattrocento and Renaissance styles (born 1467)
 * date unknown
 * Jörg Breu the Younger, German painter, son of Jörg Breu the Elder (born 1510)
 * Giovanni Cariani, Italian painter of the high-Renaissance (born 1490)
 * probable - Antonio Semini, Italian painter active in his native Genoa (born 1485)