title: 1503 in art
text: # 1503 in art
  
  Events from the year 1503 in art.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Leonardo da Vinci probably begins painting the Mona Lisa in Florence
  * Giuliano Bugiardini joins the painter's guild in Florence
  * First record of Matthias Grünewald painting
  
  ## Works
  
  * Albertinelli, The Visitation
  * Dürer, Great Piece of Turf
  * Filippino Lippi, Marriage of St. Catherine
  * Raphael, Madonna and Child with the Book
  * Mariotto Albertinelli – The Visitation of the Virgin
  * Albrecht Dürer – Great Piece of Turf (Das große Rasenstück, watercolor)
  * Filippino Lippi – Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine
  * Pietro Perugino – Combat of Love and Chastity
  * Raphael – Madonna and Child with the Book (approximate date)
  * Luca Signorelli – Portrait of Vitelozzo Vitelli
  * Master of Frankfurt – Holy Kinship (Historical Museum, Frankfurt)
  * Madonna of Laroque, perhaps by Leonardo da Vinci
  
  ## Births
  
  * Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian Mannerist painter from Florence (died 1572)
  * Pedro Campaña, Flemish painter of the Renaissance period (died 1586)
  * Paul Dax, Austrian artist (died 1561)
  * Parmigianino, Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker (died 1540)
  * Augustin Hirschvogel, German artist, mathematician, and cartographer known primarily for his etchings (died 1553)
  * Giovanni Battista Scultori, Italian painter, sculptor and engraver (died 1575)
  * Michele Tosini, Italian painter of the Renaissance and Mannerist period, who worked in Florence (died 1577)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * Israhel van Meckenem, German printmaker and goldsmith (born 1445)
  * 1502/1503: Giovanni Donato da Montorfano, Italian painter (born 1460)
  