1545 in art

Events from the year 1545 in art.

Works

Paintings

• Bronzino
• Eleanor of Toledo with her son Giovanni de' Medici
• Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici
• Portrait of Giovanni de' Medici as a Child
• Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time
• Lucas Cranach the Younger – The Conversion of St. Paul
• Gerlach Flicke – '
• Master John – ' (approximate date)
• Michelangelo – The Conversion of Saul
• Francesco de' Rossi (Il Salviati) – Triumph of Camillus (fresco for Cosimo I de' Medici in Sala dell'Udienza, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence (completed))
• Titian – some dates approximate
• Portrait of a Young Englishman
• Portrait of Lavinia Vecellio
• Portrait of Pietro Aretino
• Portrait of Pope Paul III
• Daniele da Volterra (after drawings by Michelangelo) – Descent from the Cross (approximate date)

Sculpture

• (approx. date) – Hans Gieng of Fribourg completes work on the fountains of Bern in Switzerland.

Births

• date unknown
• Farrukh Beg, Mughal painter who served in the court of Muhammad Hakim (died 1615)
• Francesco da Urbino, Italian painter (died 1582)
• Hans Collaert, Flemish engraver and draughtsman (died 1628)
• Frans Pourbus the Elder, Flemish Renaissance painter primarily of religious and portraits (died 1581)
• William Rogers, English engraver (died 1604)
• Marco Vecellio, Italian painter, nephew of Titian (died 1611)
• Juan Zariñena, Spanish painter (died 1634)

Deaths

• September - Hans Baldung, German Renaissance artist as painter and printmaker in woodcut (born 1484)
• date unknown
• Alejo Fernandez, Spanish painter best known for his portrait of Christopher Columbus (born 1475)
• Rueland Frueauf the Younger - German Late-Gothic painter (born 1470)
• Albrecht Glockendon II, German miniaturist and woodcutter (born ca. 1495)
• Vicente Juan Masip - Spanish painter of the Renaissance period (born 1475)
• Wang E, Chinese landscape painter (born 1465)