1517 in art

Events from the year 1517 in art.

Events

• Hans Baldung leaves Freiburg and returns to Strasbourg.^[1]
• Sebastiano del Piombo begins painting The Raising of Lazarus (circa 1517).^[2]
• Perugino completes the altarpiece for the San Agostino Church.^[3]
• Pontormo begins work on Joseph in Egypt (completed in 1518).^{[citation needed]}
• Raphael begins decorating the Logge Vaticane (completed in 1519).^{[citation needed]}
• Domenico Fancelli completes sculpting the tomb of the Catholic Monarchs in the Royal Chapel of Granada.

Works

Lucas Cranach the Elder – Portrait of a Saxon Princess

• Andrea del Sarto – Madonna of the Harpies^[4]
• Hans Baldung – Death and the Maiden^[5]
• Lucas Cranach the Elder – Portrait of a Saxon Princess^{[citation needed]}
• Niklaus Manuel Deutsch – Death and the Maiden^[6]
• Lorenzo Lotto – Susanna and the Elders^[7]
• Quentin Matsys – Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus^[8]
• Pontormo – St. Quentin^{[citation needed]}
• Raphael
  • Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary (Lo Spasimo; approximate date)^{[citation needed]}
  • The Path of Suffering^{[citation needed]}
• Raphael's workshop
  • frescos for "Raphael Rooms" in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican
  • The Coronation of Charlemagne (probably executed by Gianfrancesco Penni)^{[citation needed]}
  • The Oath of Leo III^{[citation needed]}

Births

• September 6 - Francisco de Holanda, Portuguese humanist and painter (born c. 1517, died 1585)^[9]
• December 15 - Giacomo Gaggini, Italian sculptor (died 1598)
• date unknown
  • Frans Floris, Flemish painter and one of a large family trained to the study of art in Flanders (born c. 1517, died 1570)^[10]
  • Willem Mahue, Flemish painter (died 1569)
• approximate date - Antonis Mor, Dutch portrait painter (died 1577)
• 1517/1524: Niccolò Circignani, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period (died 1596)^[11]

Deaths

• January 5 – Francesco Raibolini known as Francesco Francia, Bolognese painter and medalist (born 1450)^[12]
• October 31 – Fra Bartolommeo, Florentine painter (born 1472)^[13]
• date unknown
  • Nikola Božidarević, Croatian painter (born 1460)^[14]
  • Cima da Conegliano, Italian Renaissance painter (born 1459 or 1460, died 1517 or 1518)^[15]
  • Guidoccio Cozzarelli - Italian Renaissance painter and miniaturist (born 1450)