Art year 1506
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Overview of the Art Years
Further events
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Albrecht Dürer paints The Rosary Festival . |
Events
architecture
- April 18th : Under the responsibility of the architect Donato Bramante , the foundation stone is laid for the new St. Peter's Church in Rome commissioned by Pope Julius II .
- July 24th : The Red Tower on the market square in Halle an der Saale is completed 88 years after the start of construction.
sculpture
- January 14th : In his vineyards on the Esquiline in Rome, the winegrower Felice de Fredi discovers the marble group of Laocoon figures by the sculptors Hagesandros , Polydoros and Athanadoros , created around the birth of Christ .
painting
- Albrecht Dürer paints one of his few altarpieces, The Rosary Festival, as an altarpiece for the Church of San Bartolomeo in Venice . The picture, which also includes a self-portrait , suddenly made Dürer, who up until this point had mainly created graphics and drawings, famous.
- Jan Wellens de Cock becomes a master in the Antwerp Guild of Luke .
- Raffael paints the Madonna del Granduca in oil on wood .
- around 1506: Raphael paints the paintings Cristo benedicente , Madonna del Cardellino and Lady with the Unicorn .
Born
- 1505 /1506: Lambert Lombard , Flemish painter and architect († 1566 )
Died
- July 1st : Matthias Rejsek , Bohemian stonemason, sculptor, builder and architect of the late Gothic period (* around 1445 )
- August 26 : Sesshū Tōyō , Japanese Zen monk and painter (* 1420 )
- September 13 : Andrea Mantegna , Italian painter and graphic artist (* 1430 / 1431 )
- Riccardo Quartararo , Neapolitan-Sicilian painter of the Renaissance (* 1443 )
See also
Web links
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