1536 in art

Events from the year 1536 in art.

Events

• Piazza di Venezia opened in Rome.
• Hans Holbein the Younger is employed as King's Painter to Henry VIII of England by this date.

Works

Romano – Tarquin and Lucretia , fresco, Ducal palace, Mantua

• Bramantino – The Flight into Egypt (Madonna del Sasso, Switzerland)
• Jean Clouet – Portrait of Guillaume Budé
• Hans Holbein (approximate date)
  • Portrait of Henry VIII
  • Portrait Miniature of Margaret Roper (approximate date)
• Giulio Romano – Tarquin and Lucretia
• Titian – La Belle
• Jan Sanders van Hemessen – The Prodigal Son

Births

• Bernardo Buontalenti, Italian stage designer, architect, theatrical designer, military engineer and artist (died 1608)
• Vincenzo Campi, Italian painter of the Renaissance (died 1591)
• Sebastiano Filippi, Italian late Renaissance-Mannerist painter of the School of Ferrara (died 1602)
• Maso da San Friano, Italian painter active in Florence (died 1571)
• Santi di Tito, Italian painter of Late-Mannerist or proto-Baroque style (died 1602/1603)
• Teodoro Ghisi, Italian engraver (died 1601)
• Ottaviano Nonni, Italian architect, sculptor, and painter (died 1606)
• Barthélemy Prieur, French sculptor (died 1611)
• Siyâvash, Iranian illustrator of Georgian origin known for his miniatures (died 1616)
• Domenico Vitus, Italian engraver (died unknown)

Deaths

• Michele da Verona, Italian painter of the Renaissance period (born 1470)
• Antonello Gagini, Italian sculptor of the High Renaissance (born 1478)
• Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (born 1481)
• Pedro Romana, Spanish Renaissance painter (born 1460)
• Hans Weiditz, German Renaissance woodcut artist (born 1495)