1500 in art

Events

• 26 July: Bartolomeo di Pagholo ("Baccio della Porta") becomes a Dominican friar.
• Sandro Botticelli begins painting of Adoration of the Christ Child (1500-1510) as a tondo (round painting), oil on panel.

Works

Botticelli, The Mystical Nativity.

• Fra Bartolomeo – Annunciation (oil tempera on wood; Uffizi, Florence)
• Sandro Botticelli – The Mystical Nativity (National Gallery, London)
• Albrecht Dürer
  • Paumgartner altarpiece (approximate date)
  • Self-Portrait
• Giorgione – Adoration of the Shepherds (approximate completion date)
• Pietro Perugino - Vallombrosa Altarpiece

Births

• Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli, Italian painter of the Parmesan School of Painting (died 1569)
• Hans Sebald Beham, German printmaker, engraver, designer of woodcuts, painter and miniaturist (died 1550)
• Niccolò Boldrini, Italian engraver (died 1566)
• Domenico Campagnola, Italian painter and engraver of the Renaissance period (died 1564); he was a pupil of his father, the painter Giulio Campagnola
• Giulio Campi, Italian painter and architect (died 1572)
• Pompeo Cesura, Italian painter and engraver (died 1571)
• Jean Chartier, French painter, draughtsman, printer and publisher (died 1580)
• Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (died 1571)
• Pieter Claeissens the Elder, Flemish painter (died 1576)
• Jean Cousin the Elder, French painter, sculptor, etcher, engraver, and geometrician (died 1593)
• Giovanni Filippo Criscuolo, Italian painter (died 1584)
• Albrecht Glockendon the Younger, German miniaturist and woodcutter (died 1545)
• Juan Vicente Macip (or Vicente Joanes Masip), Spanish painter of the Renaissance period (died 1579)
• Jean Mone, German-Flemish sculptor (died 1548)
• Alessandro Oliverio, Italian painter (died 1544)
• Georg Pencz, German engraver, painter and printmaker (died 1550)
• Luca Penni, Italian painter, member of the School of Fontainebleau (died 1556)
• Ligier Richier, French sculptor (died 1567)
• Francesco Torbido, Italian painter (died 1581)
• Niccolò Tribolo, Italian Mannerist artist (died 1550)
• Jan van Amstel, Dutch Northern Renaissance painter (died 1542)
• Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Flemish Northern Renaissance painter (died 1566)
• Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, Dutch Northern Renaissance painter (died 1559)
• (born 1500/1509): Giovanni Battista Castello, Italian historical painter (died 1569/1579)

Deaths

• Antonio del Rincón, Spanish painter and artist (born 1446)
• Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi, Italian painter and sculptor (born 1447)