title: 1500 in art
text: # 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)
  