1528 in art explained

Events from the year 1528 in art.

Events

Plague ravishes Venice, Bergamo and other Italian cities. Several eminent artists die in the outbreak.

Works

• Antonio da Correggio
  • Madonna of St. Jerome (approximate completion date)
  • Venus and Cupid with a Satyr
• Lucas Cranach the Elder
  • Adam and Eve
  • The Judgement of Paris (approximate date)
• Hans Holbein the Younger – The Artist's Family
• Pontormo – work in Capponi Chapel of Santa Felicita di Firenze
  • Annunciation (fresco)
  • The Deposition from the Cross (altarpiece)

Births

• February 29 – Albert V, Duke of Bavaria, art patron and collector (died 1579)
• date unknown
  • Theodor de Bry, Flemish engraver and draftsman (died 1598)
  • Sigmund Feyerabend, German bookseller and wood-engraver (died 1590)
  • Bernardino India, Italian painter (died 1590)
  • Marco Marchetti, Italian painter (died 1588)
  • Gillis Mostaert and Frans Mostaert, Dutch painters, twin sons of Jan Mostaert (died 1598) and 1560) respectively
  • Paolo Veronese, Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice (died 1588)
  • Caterina van Hemessen, Flemish Renaissance painter (died 1587)

Deaths

• April 26 – Albrecht Dürer, German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg, Germany (born 1471)
• July - Palma Vecchio, Italian painter of the Venetian school (born 1480)
• July 3 - Floriano Ferramola, Italian painter (date of birth unknown)
• August - Pietro Torrigiano, Italian sculptor (born 1472)
• August 31 – Matthias Grünewald, German painter (born 1470)
• date unknown
  • Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi - North Italian sculptor, known for his finely detailed small bronzes (born 1460)
  • Jan de Beer, Dutch painter (born 1475)
  • Jacob van Laethem - Flemish painter of the Early Netherlandish painting era (born 1470)
  • Peter Vischer the Younger, German sculptor (born 1487)
• victims of the plague
  • Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, Italian sculptor (born c.1460)
  • Domenico Caprioli, Italian painter (born 1494)
  • Maturino da Firenze, Italian painter (born 1490)
  • Gianfrancesco Penni, Italian painter (born c.1488)
  • Andrea Previtali, Italian painter (born c.1490)
• probable - Wilm Dedeke, late gothic painter from Northern Germany (born 1460)