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Events from the year 1508 in art.
Events
[edit]- December - Michelangelo begins painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling in the Holy See of Rome on a commission by Pope Julius II (signed May 10). This year also he completes a bronze statue of the Pope for San Petronio Basilica in Bologna, destroyed in 1511.
Works
[edit]- Fra Bartolomeo - Holy Father, St. Mary Magdalene and St. Catherine of Siena
- Vittore Carpaccio - The Presentation of the Virgin (approximate date)
- Albrecht Dürer
- Heller Altarpiece (possible date)
- Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand
- Giorgione (approximate dates)
- Lorenzo Lotto
- Raphael
- Lucas van Leyden – Mohammed and the Murdered Monk (engraving)
Births
[edit]- November 25 - Cristofano Gherardi, Italian Mannerist painter (died 1556)
- date unknown
- Livio Agresti, Italian painter, one of the members of the "Forlì painting school" (died 1580)
- Pieter Aertsen, Dutch historical painter (died 1575)
- Antonio da Trento, Italian artist especially of woodcuts (died 1550)
- Girolamo da Treviso, Italian painter (died 1544)
- Giovanni Bernardo Lama, Italian painter (died 1579)
- Qian Gu, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (died c.1578)
- 1508/1510: Lodovico Dolce, Italian art theorist (died 1568)
- 1507/1508: Wenzel Jamnitzer, Northern Mannerist goldsmith, artist, and printmaker in etching (died 1585)
Deaths
[edit]- Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis, Italian Renaissance painter from Milan (born 1455)
- Wu Wei, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (born 1459)
- 1508/1509: Bernt Notke, German painter and sculptor (born 1435)