1510 in art

Events

• Giulio Campagnola invents the technique of stippling in engraving

Works

• Sandro Botticelli completes painting of Adoration of the Christ Child (1500-1510) as a tondo (round painting), oil on panel.

Births

• Orazio Alfani – Italian painter of the Renaissance (d. 1583)
• Hans Bocksberger der Ältere – Austrian painter (d. 1561)
• Jörg Breu the Younger – German painter, son of Jörg Breu the Elder (d. 1547)
• François Clouet – French Renaissance miniaturist and painter (d. 1572)
• Hieronymus Cock – Flemish painter and etcher of the Northern Renaissance (d. 1570)
• Juan Correa de Vivar, painted at the height of the Spanish Renaissance (Renacimiento) (d. 1566) [in Spanish: Juan Correa de Vivar]
• Luis de Morales – Spanish painter (d. 1586)
• Francesco de' Rossi – Italian Mannerist painter from Florence (d. 1563)
• Jacopino del Conte - Italian Mannerist painter (d. 1598)
• Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau – architect, sculptor, designer (d. 1584)
• Antonio Fantuzzi – Italian etcher (d. 1550)
• Jean Goujon – French sculptor and architect during the French Renaissance (d. 1572)
• Pirro Ligorio – Italian architect, painter, antiquarian and garden designer (d. 1583)
• Herri met de Bles – Flemish Northern Renaissance and Mannerist landscape painter (d. 1555/1560)
• Giuseppe Niccolo Vicentino – Italian painter and wood-engraver of the Renaissance (d. unknown)
• Bernard Palissy – French potter and craftsman (d. 1589)
• (b. 1510/1515): Andrea Schiavone – Renaissance etcher and painter, active mainly in Venice (d. 1563)
• (b. 1510/1520): Levina Teerlinc – Flemish miniaturist who served as a painter to the English court (d. 1576)

Deaths

• Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento) (b. 1445)