1516 in art

Events from the year 1516 in art.

Events

• Leonardo da Vinci moves to France and enters the service of King Francis I of France, being given the use of the manor house Clos Lucé connected via tunnel to the king's residence at the Château d'Amboise. He probably brings the Mona Lisa with him.

Works

• Fra Bartolomeo
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• Hieronymus Bosch – Christ Carrying the Cross
• Cima da Conegliano
• St Lanfranc enthroned between St John the Baptist and St Liberius
• St Peter Enthroned with St John the Baptist and St Paul (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)
• Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da Imola – The Virgin and Child with Saints John, Apollinaris and Catherine and a Bishop
• Leonardo da Vinci – St. John the Baptist
• Matthias Grünewald – Isenheim Altarpiece (completed, with sculptures by Nikolaus Hagenauer)
• Lorenzo Lotto – Martinengo Altarpiece (Church of Santi Bartolomeo e Stefano, Bergamo)
• Michelangelo – Dying Slave (marble)
• Pontormo
• Madonna with Child and Saints (approximate date)
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• Raphael
• Cartoons of scenes from the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles for tapestries for the Sistine Chapel (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
• Portrait of Cardinal Bibbiena
• Portrait of Andrea Navagero and Agostino Beazzano
• Titian – The Tribute Money