Art year 1521
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architecture
The Torre de Belém near Lisbon will be completed after six years of construction. The structure serves as a lighthouse, together with a second tower on the other bank of the Tagus River as a bulwark against enemy ships and as a prison and arsenal. Along with the nearby Mosteiro dos Jerónimos , the tower is one of the few outstanding Manueline-style structures that survived the Lisbon earthquake in 1755. This architectural style, which is only found in Portugal, comes to an end with the death of King Manuel I on December 13th .
painting
- 1521/ 22 : Hans Holbein the Younger painted in Basel image The body of Christ in the grave . The oil painting , executed on a linden wood panel, shows in an almost life-size format the realistically depicted dead Christ in a stone grave niche. Originally, presumably intended as an epitaph , the painting never made it to the planned installation site because of the Basel iconoclasm . The painting remains in the private possession of the family of the presumed client, Bonifacius Amerbach .
Born
- January 2 : Hermann tom Ring , German painter († 1596 )
- August 19 : Lodovico Guicciardini , Italian merchant, cartographer, humanist, geographer, politician, chronicler and writer († 1589 )
- December 13 : Felice Peretti di Montalto, Pope under the name Sixtus V and an important builder in Rome († 1590 )
- Johannes Criginger , German Lutheran theologian, cartographer and writer († 1571 )
- Xu Wei , Chinese painter, poet and playwright († 1593 )
- around 1521: Antoine Caron , French painter († 1599 )
Died
- February 25 : Johann Schönsperger , German book printer and retailer publisher (* around 1455 )
- March 7 : Benedetto Buglioni , Florentine sculptor and Terrakottabildner (* 1459 / 60 )
- April 12 : Piero di Cosimo , Italian painter and draftsman (* 1462 )
- July 9 : Raffaele Riario , Italian cardinal and patron of the arts (* 1460 )
- December 1 : Giovanni de 'Medici, Florentine patrician, under the name of Pope Leo X , important art patron (* 1475 )
- December 13 : Manuel I , called "the lucky one", King of Portugal, namesake of the Portuguese architectural style of Manueline (* 1469 )
- Jean Bourdichon , French painter and illuminator of manuscripts (* 1457 )
- Jörg Syrlin the Younger , German sculptor and guild master of carpenters in Ulm (* around 1455 )
See also
Web links
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