1516 in art

Events

• Leonardo da Vinci moves to France and enters the service of King Francis I of France, being given the use of the manor house Clos Lucé connected via tunnel to the king's residence at the Château d'Amboise. He probably brings the Mona Lisa with him.

Works

Leonardo – St. John the Baptist

• Fra Bartolomeo
  • Pietà
  • Scene with Christ in the Temple
• Hieronymus Bosch – Christ Carrying the Cross
• Cima da Conegliano
  • St Lanfranc enthroned between St John the Baptist and St Liberius
  • St Peter Enthroned with St John the Baptist and St Paul (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)
• Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da Imola – The Virgin and Child with Saints John, Apollinaris and Catherine and a Bishop
• Leonardo da Vinci – St. John the Baptist
• Matthias Grünewald – Isenheim Altarpiece (completed, with sculptures by Nikolaus Hagenauer)
• Lorenzo Lotto – Martinengo Altarpiece (Church of Santi Bartolomeo e Stefano, Bergamo)
• Michelangelo – Dying Slave (marble)
• Pontormo
  • Madonna with Child and Saints (approximate date)
  • Visitation of the Virgin and St Elizabeth (fresco in Santissima Annunziata, Florence, completed)
• Raphael
  • Cartoons of scenes from the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles for tapestries for the Sistine Chapel (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
  • Portrait of Cardinal Bibbiena
  • Portrait of Andrea Navagero and Agostino Beazzano
• Titian – The Tribute Money

Births

• February 16 - Prospero Spani, Italian sculptor (died 1584)
• date unknown
  • Antonio Bernieri, Italian painter (died 1565)
  • Cristóvão Lopes, Portuguese portrait and altarpiece painter (died 1594)
  • Domenico Riccio, Italian painter in a Mannerist style from Verona (died 1567)

Deaths

• June 1 - Biagio d'Antonio, Italian painter (born 1446)
• August 9 – Hieronymus Bosch, Early Netherlandish painter of the 15th and 16th centuries (born c.1450)
• November 26 - Giovanni Bellini, Italian Renaissance painter (born c.1430)
• date unknown
  • Giuliano da Sangallo, Italian sculptor and architect (born c.1443)
  • Jacopo de' Barbari, Italian painter and printmaker (born 1440)
  • Antonio del Massaro, Italian Quattrocento painters (born c. 1450)
  • Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Italian painter of the High Renaissance who worked in the studio of Leonardo da Vinci (born 1466/1467)
  • Antonio Lombardo, Italian sculptor (born 1458)