1500 in art
# 1500 in art

The year 1500 in art involved some significant events and new works.

## Events

* 26 July: Bartolomeo di Pagholo ("Baccio della Porta") becomes a Dominican friar.
* Sandro Botticelli begins painting of Adoration of the Christ Child (1500-1510) as a tondo (round painting), oil on panel.

## Works

* Fra Bartolomeo – Annunciation (oil tempera on wood; Uffizi, Florence)
* Sandro Botticelli – The Mystical Nativity (National Gallery, London)
* Cima da Conegliano - Madonna and Child (National Museum Wales)
* Albrecht Dürer
   * Lamentation of Christ (approximate date)
   * Paumgartner altarpiece (approximate date)
   * Self-Portrait
   * Seven Sorrows Polyptych (approximate date)
* Giorgione – Adoration of the Shepherds (approximate completion date)
* Pietro Perugino - Vallombrosa Altarpiece

## Births

* 3 November - Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (died 1571)
* date unknown
* Hans Sebald Beham, German printmaker, engraver, designer of woodcuts, painter and miniaturist (died 1550)
* Niccolò Boldrini, Italian engraver (died 1566)
* Giulio Campi, Italian painter and architect (died 1572)
   * Pompeo Cesura, Italian painter and engraver (died 1571)
   * Jean Chartier, French painter, draughtsman, printer and publisher (died 1580)
   * Pieter Claeissens the Elder, Flemish painter (died 1576)
   * Jean Cousin the Elder, French painter, sculptor, etcher, engraver, and geometrician (died 1593)
   * Juan Vicente Macip (or Vicente Joanes Masip), Spanish painter of the Renaissance period (died 1579)
   * Alessandro Oliverio, Italian painter (died 1544)
   * Niccolò Tribolo, Italian Mannerist artist (died 1550)
* approximate year of birth
   * Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli, Italian painter of the Parmesan School of Painting (died 1569)
   * Domenico Campagnola, Italian painter and engraver of the Renaissance period (died 1564); he was a pupil of his father, the painter Giulio Campagnola
   * Giovanni Battista Castello, Italianhistorical painter (died 1569/1579)
   * Giovanni Filippo Criscuolo, Italian painter (died 1584)
   * Albrecht Glockendon the Younger, German miniaturist and woodcutter (died 1545)
   * Jean Mone, German-Flemish sculptor (died 1548)
   * Luca Penni, Italian painter, member of the School of Fontainebleau (died 1556)
   * Georg Pencz, German engraver, painter and printmaker (died 1550)
   * Ligier Richier, French sculptor (died 1567)
   * Jan van Amstel, Dutch Northern Renaissance painter (died 1542)
   * Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Flemish Northern Renaissance painter (died 1566)

## Deaths

* date unknown
   * Antonio del Rincón, Spanish painter and artist (born 1446)
   * Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi, Italian painter and sculptor (born 1447)
   * Friedrich Herlin, German painter (born c.1425)
   * Bernardo Tesauro, Neapolitan fresco painter (born 1440)
