1531 in art
overview of the events of 1531 in art
Events from the year 1531 in art.
Works
Albrecht Altdorfer – The Pride of the Beggar Sitting on the Train
Correggio – Leda and the Swan
Lucas Cranach the Elder – Cupid complaining to Venus (The honey thief) and The Three Graces (approximate date)
Giulio Romano – Jonah and the Whale
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta – Portrait of Sophie Juliane von der Schulenburg
Lucas van Leyden – Healing the blind men of Jericho
Bernard van Orley and William Dermoyen – The Battle of Pavia (tapestry, woven between 1528 and 1531)
Births
Vincenzo Cartari, Italian painter (died 1569)
Luis de Carbajal, Spanish painter of the Renaissance period (died 1618)
Lodovico Leoni, Italian painter mainly active in Rome (died 1606)
(born 1531/1532): Alonso Sánchez Coello, portrait painter of the Spanish Renaissance (died 1588)
Deaths
Hans Burgkmair, German painter and printmaker in woodcut (born 1473)
Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter from Florence (born 1486)
Hans Leu the Younger, Swiss painter (born ca.
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