1548 in art

Events from the year 1548 in art.

Painting

 * Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta – Madonna with Six Saints (for San Martino (Bologna))
 * Frans Floris – The Judgement of Paris (approximate date)
 * Tintoretto
 * Miracle of the Slave
 * St Mark's Body Brought to Venice
 * Titian
 * Equestrian Portrait of Charles V
 * Venus with Organist and Cupid
 * Caterina van Hemessen
 * Portrait of a Woman (Rijksmuseum)
 * Self-portrait
 * Young girl
 * Jan Sanders van Hemessen – The Calling of Saint Matthew
 * Daniele da Volterra – Madonna with Child, young Saint John the Baptist and Saint Barbara (approximate date)

Sculpture

 * Pierino da Vinci - Young River God with Theee Putti

Publications

 * Paolo Pino - Dialogo di pittura

Births

 * March 18 - Cornelis Ketel, Dutch Mannerist painter (died 1616)
 * May - Karel van Mander, Flemish painter, poet and biographer (died 1606)
 * August 26 - Bernardino Poccetti, Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker (died 1612)
 * date unknown
 * Ippolito Andreasi, Italian painter (died 1608)
 * Pietro Francavilla, Franco-Flemish sculptor (died 1615)
 * probable
 * Peter Candid, Dutch painter and architect (died 1628)
 * 1548/1550: Palma il Giovane, Italian Mannerist painter from Venice (died 1628)

Deaths

 * June 11 – Agostino Busti, Italian High Renaissance sculptor (born 1483)
 * November 10 – Giovanni Battista Averara, Italian painter (born 1508)
 * date unknown
 * Matthys Cock, Flemish landscape painter (born 1505)
 * Battista Dossi, Italian painter who belonged to the Ferrara School of Painting (born 1490)
 * Martin Schaffner, German painter and medallist (born 1478)
 * probable
 * Jean Mone, German-Flemish sculptor (born 1500)
 * Matteo dal Nasaro Veronese, Italian sculptor and engraver (born unknown)
 * Girolamo Savoldo, Italian High Renaissance painter (born 1480/1485)