1515 in art

Events from the year 1515 in art.

Events

• Giovanni Antonio da Brescia's engraving of the Belvedere Torso attracts the interest of connoisseurs and artists outside Rome.

Works

• Giovanni Bellini – '
• Cima da Conegliano – Virgin and Child with Saints and Donors (Cleveland Museum of Art)
• Piero di Cosimo – The Myth of Prometheus (series)
• Lucas Cranach the Elder – ' (approximate date)
• Gerard David – Virgin and Child with Four Angels (approximate completion date)
• Albrecht Dürer
• "Arch of Honor" (printed 1517/18)
• The Rhinoceros (woodcut)
• Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da Imola – The Virgin and Child with Saints Sebastian, Roch, Cosmas and Damian
• Jan Gossaert – The Adoration of the Kings
• Matthias Grünewald – Isenheim Altarpiece (Unterlinden Museum, Colmar, Alsace)
• Leonardo da Vinci – Bacchus
• Jacopo Pontormo – Pharaoh with his Butler and Baker
• Raphael
• Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione (probable date)
• Portrait of Bindo Altoviti
• La velata
• Titian (some dates approximate)
• Noli me tangere
• Salome
• Tarquin and Lucretia (attributed)
• Vanity
• Violante
• Woman with a Mirror
• Young Woman in a Black Dress

Births

• October 4 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter and wood-engraver (died 1586)
• probable
• Jean Bullant, French sculptor and architect (died 1578)
• Nicolas Denisot, French Renaissance poet and painter (died 1559)
• Willem Key, Flemish painter (died 1568)
• (born 1515/1520) Lambert Sustris, Dutch painter (died 1584)

Deaths

• November 5 – Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian Renaissance painter (born 1474)
• date unknown - Pietro Lombardo, Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect (born 1435)
• probable
• Giulio Campagnola, Italian engraver and painter, inventor of the stipple technique in engraving (born 1482)
• Vincenzo Foppa, Italian painter (born 1430)

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