Art year 1512
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Overview of the Art Years
Further events
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 Michelangelo Buonarotti's ceiling paintings in the Sistine Chapel are unveiled. |
Events
architecture
- The Osnabrück town hall, built in the late Gothic style , will be completed after 25 years of construction. The front view is determined by an 18-meter-high hipped roof , the height of which almost corresponds to the other height of the building from the floor slab to the eaves . At the lower end of the roof there are a total of six towers, which are reminiscent of the guard and corner towers of a fortress.
Sistine Chapel
After more than four years of work, Michelangelo Buonarotti's ceiling painting in the Sistine Chapel is ceremoniously unveiled on November 1st in the presence of the client, Pope Julius II . They show scenes from Genesis on a total of 520 m² with 115 larger-than-life characters. In particular, the fresco The Creation of Adam becomes one of the most famous works in art history. Immediately after completing the ceiling paintings, Michelangelo returned to his preferred project, the funerary monument for Pope Julius II.
Woodcut
- Lucas Cranach the Elder made the woodcut werewolf .
- Emperor Maximilian I commissioned Albrecht Dürer with a monumental woodcut , the gate of honor , based on the ancient triumphal arches .
More works of painting
- The master of the Prenzlau high altar completes the high altar of the Marienkirche in Prenzlau .
- Raphael begins on behalf of Pope Julius II on the occasion of the incorporation of the city of Piacenza into the Papal States after the victory over the French in the previous year with the work Sistine Madonna for the high altar of the monastery church of San Sisto in Piacenza .
- Raphael's workshop produced the portrait of Pope Julius II in three versions , a key work for the representative Pope portrait of the following centuries.
- Around 1512, Leonardo da Vinci's so-called “ self-portrait ” was created . Whether the work is actually a self-portrait is a matter of controversy among critics. The identity of the person portrayed is doubtful and the authorship is not guaranteed.
Born
- 1511/1512 : Giovanni Sallustio Peruzzi , Italian architect († 1572 )
- March 5 : Gerhard Mercator , cartographer († 1594 )
- Galeazzo Alessi , Italian architect († 1572 )
- Prospero Fontana , Italian Renaissance painter († 1597 )
- Urs Graf the Younger , Swiss goldsmith and rice walker († 1559 )
- Johannes Holl , Augsburg renaissance builder († 1594 )
- Antonio da Ponte , Italian builder († 1597 )
- around 1512/1514 : Herman Posthumus , Dutch painter and architect († before 1588)
- around 1512 or 1520 : Giorgio Ghisi : Italian engraver, painter and Tausiator († 1582 )
Died
- February 12 : Burkhart Engelberg , Augsburg stonemason and master builder (* 1447 )
- before April 6: Giovanni Marinoni , Italian painter (* around 1455 )
- Olivier van Ghent , Flemish sculptor (* 1470 )
- by 1512: Hans Raphon , German painter (* 1460 / 1470 )
See also
Web links
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