1538 in art

Events

Works

Painting

• Michelangelo – Study for the Colonna Pieta
• Jacopo Bassano – The Supper at Emmaus

Births

• Antonio Abondio – Italian sculptor, best known as a medallist and as the pioneer of the coloured wax relief portrait miniature (d. 1591)
• Durante Alberti – Italian painter, member of family of artists (d. 1613)
• Benedetto Caliari - Italian painter (d. 1598)
• Pablo de Céspedes – Spanish painter, poet, and architect (d. 1608)
• Francesco Curia – Italian Renaissance painter (d. 1610)

Deaths

• Hans Dürer – German Renaissance painter, illustrator, and engraver (b. 1490)
• Albrecht Altdorfer – German painter, pioneer of landscape in art (b. 1480)
• Giorgio Gandini del Grano – Italian painter of the Parmesan school of Painting (b. unknown)
• Zhang Lu – Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (b. 1464)