1526 in art

Events from the year 1526 in art.

Events

• c. September - German artist Hans Holbein the Younger begins a two-year stay in England.

Works

• Lucas Cranach the Elder – '
• Albrecht Dürer
• Erasmus of Rotterdam (engraving)
• The Four Apostles
• Portrait of Hieronymus Holzschuher
• Portrait of Jakob Muffel
• Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da Imola – The Virgin and Child with Saints John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, Joachim and Anne
• Lucas Horenbout – Portrait miniatures (approximate date)
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• Hans Holbein the Younger
• Darmstadt Madonna
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• Lorenzo Lotto
• Christ Carrying the Cross
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• Sebastiano del Piombo – Portrait of Andrea Doria

Births

• October 30 - Hubert Goltzius, Dutch painter, engraver and printer (died 1583)
• date unknown
• Federico Barocci, Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker (died 1612)
• Juan Fernández Navarrete, Spanish Mannerist painter (died 1579)
• Giovanni Battista Zelotti, Italian painter (died 1578)
• probable
• Jacob Grimmer, Flemish landscape painter (died 1590)
• Nicolaus van Aelst, Flemish engraver and painter (died 1613)
• (1526/1527) Melchior Lorck, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker of Danish-German origin (died 1583)

Deaths

• date unknown
• Andrea Ferrucci, Italian sculptor (born 1465)
• Liberale da Verona, Italian painter active mainly in Verona (born 1441)
• Giovanni di Niccolò Mansueti, Italian painter (b. unknown)
• Jerg Ratgeb, German painter (born 1480; executed for treason)
• Jacopo Torni, Florentine painter (born 1476)
• Bernardo Zenale, Italian painter and architect (born 1460)
• probable
• Nicolò Brancaleon, Venetian-born painter who worked in Ethiopia (born 1460)
• (1526/1529) Hans Maler zu Schwaz, German painter and portraitist (born 1480)

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