1512 in art
# 1512 in art

Events from the year 1512 in art.

## Events

* Michelangelo completes his nine Sistine Chapel ceiling paintings of the Creation.

## Works

* Hans Baldung – The Trinity and Mystic Pietà
* Fra Bartolomeo – Madonna in Glory with Saints (altarpiece, Besançon Cathedral, 1511–12)
* Albrecht Dürer – The Virgin Mary Appearing to St. John on Patmos (woodcut)
* Leonardo da Vinci – Self-portrait in red chalk (approximate date)
* Michelangelo – Sistine Chapel ceiling, including the Separation of Light from Darkness (completed)
* Raphael
   * The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple (fresco in the Raphael Rooms of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican)
   * Portrait of Pope Julius II
   * The Triumph of Galatea (fresco in Villa Farnesina in Rome)
* Titian – approximate date
   * The Gypsy Madonna
   * La Schiavona
   * The Three Ages of Man
* Lucas van Leyden – The History of Joseph series of engravings, e.g. Joseph Explains Pharaoh's Dream
* Bernard van Orley – Triptych of the Carpenters and Masons Corporation of Brussels ("Apostle Altar")

## Births

* date unknown
   * Lazzaro Calvi, Italian painter who frequently collaborated with his brother (died 1587)
   * Luis de Morales, Spanish painter known as "El Divino" (died 1586)
   * Battista del Moro, Italian painter of the Renaissance period active in his native Verona (died 1568)
   * Prospero Fontana, Italian painter of the late Renaissance, (died 1597)
* (born 1512/1520): Giorgio Ghisi, Italian coppersmith, painter, and engraver (died 1582)
* 1512/1515: Marcello Venusti, Italian Mannerist painter primarily in Rome (died 1579)

## Deaths

* April 5 - Lazzaro Bastiani, Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in Venice (born 1449)
* date unknown - Giovanni Cristoforo Romano, Italian sculptor and medallist (born 1456)
