Events from the Year 1536 in Art
Piazza di Venezia was inaugurated in Rome.
By this year, Hans Holbein the Younger had been appointed as the King’s Painter to Henry VIII of England.
Notable Works
- Bramantino – The Flight into Egypt (Madonna del Sasso, Switzerland)
- Jean Clouet – Portrait of Guillaume Budé
- Hans Holbein (approximate date) – Portrait of Henry VIII
- Hans Holbein (approximate date) – Portrait Miniature of Margaret Roper
- Giulio Romano – Tarquin and Lucretia
- Titian – La Belle
- Jan Sanders van Hemessen – The Prodigal Son
Notable Births
- Bernardo Buontalenti, Italian stage designer, architect, theatrical designer, military engineer and artist (died 1608)
- Vincenzo Campi, Italian painter of the Renaissance (died 1591)
- Sebastiano Filippi, Italian late Renaissance-Mannerist painter of the School of Ferrara (died 1602)
- Maso da San Friano, Italian painter active in Florence (died 1571)
- Santi di Tito, Italian painter of Late-Mannerist or proto-Baroque style (died 1602/1603)
- Teodoro Ghisi, Italian engraver (died 1601)
- Ottaviano Nonni, Italian architect, sculptor, and painter (died 1606)
- Barthélemy Prieur, French sculptor (died 1611)
- Siyâvash, Iranian illustrator of Georgian origin known for his miniatures (died 1616)
- Domenico Vitus, Italian engraver (died unknown)
Notable Deaths
- Michele da Verona, Italian painter of the Renaissance period (born 1470)
- Antonello Gagini, Italian sculptor of the High Renaissance (born 1478)
- Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (born 1481)
- Pedro Romana, Spanish Renaissance painter (born 1460)
- Hans Weiditz, German Renaissance woodcut artist (born 1495)