1520 in art
# 1520 in art

Events from the year 1520 in art.

## Events

* Considered the start of the Mannerism art period
* The oldest known painting depicting Stockholm is painted in the church of Storkyrkan.

## Works

### Painting

* Albrecht Altdorfer – Departure of Saint Florian
* Domenico Campagnola – Gerolamo
* Gerard David – The Virgin and Child in a landscape (approximate date)
* Gerard David or circle of Jan Mabuse – Our Lady of the Fly (approximate date)
* Il Garofalo – Ascension of Christ
* Quentin Matsys – Portrait of a woman
* Francesco Melzi – Flora
* Raphael – Transfiguration
* Titian – Venus Anadyomene (approximate date)
* Lucas van Leyden – Lot and his Daughters (approximate date)
* Jan van Scorel – Sippenaltar
* Pseudo Jan Wellens de Cock – Calvary (approximate date)
* Portrait of Francis I of France (completed by this date)

## Births

* February 23 (baptised) - Ercole Procaccini the Elder, Italian painter mainly active in Milan (died 1595)
* June 29 - Nicolás Factor, Spanish painter of the Renaissance period (died 1583)
* date unknown
   * Gaspar Becerra, Spanish painter and sculptor (died 1570)
   * Leonardo Brescia, Italian painter (died 1582)
   * Mirabello Cavalori, Italian painter mainly active in Florence (died 1572)
   * Claudio de Arciniega, Spanish sculptor and architect (died 1593)
   * Giacomo del Duca, Italian sculptor (died 1601)
   * Étienne Dupérac, French painter, draughtsman and engraver, topographer and antiquarian (died 1607)
   * Giorgio Ghisi, Italian engraver from Mantua (died 1582)
   * David Kandel, Strasbourg-born botanical illustrator (died 1592)
   * Domenico Poggini, Italian sculptor (died 1590)
   * Giuseppe Porta, Italian painter active mainly in Venice (died 1575)
   * Martin Van Cleve, Flemish painter of the Van Cleve family (died 1570)
* probable
   * Hans Eworth, Flemish painter (died 1574)
   * Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Flemish printmaker and painter associated with the English court of the mid-16th Century (died 1590)
   * Francesco Imparato, Italian painter active mainly in his natal city of Naples (died 1570)
   * Girolamo Porro, Italian engraver on wood and on copper (died unknown)
   * Martino Rota, Croatian artist and printmaker (died 1583)
   * Hugues Sambin, French sculptor and woodworker (died 1601)
   * (born 1520/1524): Giovanni Battista Moroni, Italian painter of the mannerist period (died 1579)

## Deaths

* April 6 - Raphael, Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance (born 1483)
* April 11 - Agostino Chigi, Italian banker and patron of the arts (born 1466)
* December 6 - Bartolomé Ordóñez, Spanish sculptor (born 1480)
* date unknown
   * Raffaello Botticini - Italian Renaissance painter (born 1474)
   * Sheikh Hamdullah, Ottoman master of Islamic calligraphy (born 1436)
   * Sultan Ali Mashhadi, Persian calligrapher and poet (born 1453)
   * Marx Reichlich, Austrian painter of primarily religious scenes (born 1460)
   * Niccolo Rondinelli, Italian painter active mainly in Ravenna (born 1468)
