1541 in art

Events

Works

Births

date unknown

• El Greco (or Domenikos Theotokopoulos), painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance (d. 1614)
• Yi Chong, Korean painter (d. 1622)

Deaths

• Jean Clouet – miniaturist and painter who worked in France during the Renaissance (b. 1480)
• Gerard Horenbout – Flemish miniaturist (b. 1465)
• Bernard van Orley – Flemish Northern Renaissance painter and draughtsman (b. 1487-1491)
• Stanisław Samostrzelnik – Polish Renaissance painter and Cisterian monk (b. 1490)