title: 1520 in art
text: # 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)
  