1516 in art
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Events
- Leonardo da Vinci moved to France and entered the service of King Francis I of France, being given the use of the manor house Clos Lucé connected via tunnel to the king's residence at the royal Château d'Amboise.
Works
- Hieronymus Bosch – Christ Carrying the Cross
- Cima da Conegliano
- St Lanfranc enthroned between St John the Baptist and St Liberius
- St Peter Enthroned with St John the Baptist and St Paul (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)
- Leonardo da Vinci – St. John the Baptist
- Lorenzo Lotto – Martinengo Altarpiece (Church of Santi Bartolomeo e Stefano, Bergamo)
- Michelangelo – Dying Slave (marble)
- Pontormo – Madonna with Child and Saints (approximate date)
- Raphael
- Cartoons of scenes from the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles for tapestries for the Sistine Chapel (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
- Portrait of Cardinal Bibbiena
- Portrait of Andrea Navagero and Agostino Beazzano
- Titian – The Tribute Money
Births
- February 16 - Prospero Spani, Italian sculptor (died 1584)
- date unknown
- Cristóvão Lopes, Portuguese portrait and altarpiece painter (died 1594)
- Domenico Riccio, Italian painter in a Mannerist style from Verona (died 1567)
Deaths
- August 9 – Hieronymus Bosch, Early Netherlandish painter of the 15th and 16th centuries (born c. 1450)
- date unknown
- Giovanni Bellini, Italian Renaissance painter (born c. 1430)
- Jacopo de' Barbari, Italian painter and printmaker (born 1440)
- Antonio del Massaro - Italian Quattrocento painters (born c. 1450)
- Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Italian painter of the High Renaissance who worked in the studio of Leonardo da Vinci (born 1466/1467)
- Antonio Lombardo, Italian sculptor (born 1458)