Art year 1506

Art year 1506
Albrecht Dürer paints The Rosary Festival .

Events

Drawing of the Constantinian basilica above the tomb of St. Peter before 1506

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 .

The market square around 1500, reconstruction from 1889

July 24th : The Red Tower on the market square in Halle an der Saale is completed 88 years after the start of construction.

The Laocoon Group

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 .

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 .

Memorial plaque for Matthias Rejsek at the town hall in Prostějov

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 )

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