Art year 1516

Art year 1516
Lucas Cranach the Elder paints the picture cycle The 10 Commandments .

Reconstruction of the project for the Julius tomb by Michelangelo in 1516

Events

King François I brought Leonardo da Vinci , whom he met on his journey to Italy , to his court in France. Among other things, the artist takes the paintings Mona Lisa and Anna Himself to Paris. He moved to the Clos Lucé Castle in Amboise , which was left to him along with a generous pension. The king visits Amboise with his court frequently for the next two years.

John the Baptist

around 1516: Leonardo da Vinci completes the painting John the Baptist . It is probably da Vinci's last oil painting .

Titian receives his first major commission for a religious painting from Prior Fra Germano da Casale of the Church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari. He begins work on the Assumption , which will last until 1518 .
Giulio de 'Medici , cousin and vice-chancellor of Pope Leo X , commissioned Raphael to paint the Transfiguration . At the same time he gave Sebastiano del Piombo the commission for the awakening of Lazarus .
Raffael creates the portrait of Baldassare Castiglione .
Giovanni da Udine enters Raphael's workshop .
The 15-year-old Benvenuto Cellini is banned from Florence for six months because of a fight that he spends with master Francesco Castoro in Siena.

Madonna with Jesus and John the Baptist

around 1516: Antonio da Correggio paints the Madonna with Jesus and John the Baptist .

before July: Jacopo de 'Barbari , Italian painter and engraver (* around 1460–70)

Posthumous portrait of Hieronymus Bosch

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio , Milanese painter (* 1467 )
Vincenzo Foppa , Italian painter (* around 1427 )
Bernardino Fungai , Italian painter of the School of Siena (* 1460 )
Antonio Lombardo , Venetian sculptor (* around 1458 )
Konrad Pfettisheim , citizen of Strasbourg and author of a rhyming chronicle about the Burgundian Wars (* before 1477)
Biagio Rossetti , Italian architect and urban planner (* 1447 )
Giuliano da Sangallo , Florentine architect and sculptor (* 1445 )
Ivo Strigel , South German sculptor (* 1430 )
Hermann Vischer the Younger , German painter and sculptor (* 1486 )

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