1542 in art

Events from the year 1542 in art.

Events

• Painter Paul Lautensack is expelled from Nuremberg as a result of his Reformist fanaticism.

Works

Paintings

• Wen Zhengming – Wintry trees after Li Cheng
• Titian
• Portrait of Clarissa Strozzi
• Portrait of Ranuccio Farnese
• Bronzini – Crossing of the Red Sea
• Domenico Beccafumi – Madonna and Child with Infant John the Baptist

Births

• date unknown - Joris Hoefnagel. Flemish painter and engraver (died 1601)
• probable
• Gillis Coignet, Flemish painter (died 1599)
• Ambroise Dubois, Flemish painter of the second School of Fontainebleau (died 1614)
• Felice Riccio, Italian painter (died 1605)
• Andrea Vicentino, Italian Mannerist painter (died 1617)
• Federico Zuccari, Italian Mannerist painter and architect (died 1609)

Deaths

• date unknown
• Dosso Dossi, Italian Renaissance painter who belonged to the Ferrara School of Painting (born 1490)
• Hans Krafft the Elder, German medallist (born 1481)
• Jan van Amstel, Dutch Northern Renaissance painter (born 1500)
• probable
• Francesco Xanto Avelli, Italian ceramicist (born 1487)
• Vasco Fernandes, Portuguese Renaissance painter (born 1475)