Events from the year 1526 in art.

Events

• c. September - German artist Hans Holbein the Younger begins a two-year stay in England. ^[1]

Works

• Lucas Cranach the Elder – Kattarina Luterin
• Albrecht Dürer
  • Erasmus of Rotterdam ( engraving)
  • The Four Apostles
  • Portrait of Hieronymus Holzschuher
  • Portrait of Jakob Muffel
• Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da Imola – The Virgin and Child with Saints John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, Joachim and Anne
• Lucas Horenbout – Portrait miniatures (approximate date)
  • Catherine of Aragon with a monkey
  • Catherine of Aragon
  • Henry VIII
• Hans Holbein the Younger
  • Darmstadt Madonna
  • Lais of Corinth
• Lorenzo Lotto
  • Christ Carrying the Cross
  • Portrait of a Young Man
• Sebastiano del Piombo – Portrait of Andrea Doria

Births

• October 30 - Hubert Goltzius, Dutch painter, engraver and printer (died 1583)
• date unknown
  • Federico Barocci, Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker (died 1612)
  • Juan Fernández Navarrete, Spanish Mannerist painter (died 1579)
  • Küplüceli Öznur, Ottoman Turkish Divan poet and calligrapher (died 1628)
  • Giovanni Battista Zelotti, Italian painter (died 1578)
• probable
  • Jacob Grimmer, Flemish landscape painter (died 1590)
  • Nicolaus van Aelst, Flemish engraver and painter (died 1613)
  • (1526/1527) Melchior Lorck, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker of Danish-German origin (died 1583)

Deaths

• date unknown
  • Andrea Ferrucci, Italian sculptor (born 1465)
  • Liberale da Verona, Italian painter active mainly in Verona (born 1441)
  • Giovanni di Niccolò Mansueti, Italian painter (b. unknown)
  • Jerg Ratgeb, German painter (born 1480; executed for treason)
  • Jacopo Torni, Florentine painter (born 1476)
  • Bernardo Zenale, Italian painter and architect (born 1460)
• probable
  • Nicolò Brancaleon, Venetian-born painter who worked in Ethiopia (born 1460)
  • (1526/1529) Hans Maler zu Schwaz, German painter and portraitist (born 1480)

References