1517 in art

Events

• Hans Baldung leaves Freiburg and returns to Strasbourg.
• Sebastiano del Piombo begins painting The Raising of Lazarus (circa 1517).
• Perugino completes the altarpiece for the San Agostino Church.
• Pontormo begins work on Joseph in Egypt (completed in 1518).
• Raphael begins decorating the Logge Vaticane (completed in 1519).
• Domenico Fancelli completes sculpting the tomb of the Catholic Monarchs in the Royal Chapel of Granada.

Works

• Andrea del Sarto – Madonna of the Harpies
• Hans Baldung – Death and the Maiden
• Lucas Cranach the Elder – Portrait of a Saxon Princess
• Niklaus Manuel Deutsch – Death and the Maiden
• Lorenzo Lotto – Susanna and the Elders
• Quentin Matsys – Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus
• Pontormo – St. Quentin
• Raphael
  • Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary (Lo Spasimo; approximate date)
  • The Path of Suffering
• Raphael's workshop
  • frescos for "Raphael Rooms" in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican
  • The Coronation of Charlemagne (probably executed by Gianfrancesco Penni)
  • The Oath of Leo III

Births

• September 6 - Francisco de Holanda, Portuguese humanist and painter (born 1517, died 1585)
• December 15 - Giacomo Gaggini, Italian sculptor (died 1598)
• date unknown
  • Frans Floris, Flemish painter and one of a large family trained to the study of art in Flanders (born 1517, died 1570)
  • Willem Mahue, Flemish painter (died 1569)
• approximate date - Antonis Mor, Dutch portrait painter (died 1577)
• 1517/1524: Niccolò Circignani, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period (died 1596)

Deaths

• January 5 – Francesco Raibolini known as Francesco Francia, Bolognese painter and medalist (born 1450)
• October 31 – Fra Bartolommeo, Florentine painter (born 1472)
• date unknown
  • Nikola Božidarević, Croatian painter (born 1460)
  • Cima da Conegliano, Italian Renaissance painter (born 1459 or 1460, died 1517 or 1518)
  • Guidoccio Cozzarelli - Italian Renaissance painter and miniaturist (born 1450)

References

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