# 1525 in art

Events from the year 1525 in art.

## Events

* Albrecht Dürer publishes his work on geometry, The Four Books on Measurement ("Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt" or "Instructions for Measuring with Compass and Ruler") at Nuremberg
* Lucas Horenbout is named royal "pictor maker" to King Henry VIII of England, and will introduce the techniques of portrait miniatures to England
* Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen is named Court Painter to Archduchess Margaret of Austria

## Works
### Painting

* Lucas Cranach the Elder
** Cardinal Albert of Brandenburg before Christ on the Cross (approximate date)
** Venus and Cupid
* Antonio da Correggio – Venus with Mercury and Cupid or The School of Love (approximate date)
* Michelangelo – Head of Bearded Man Shouting
* Pontormo – Youth in a Pink Cloak
* Jan Provoost – Last Judgment (Groeningemuseum)
* Nicola da Urbino – Panel with the Adoration of the Magi
* Bernard van Orley – The Last Judgment (triptych, commissioned for Antwerp)
* Bartolomeo Veneto – Flora (approximate date)
* Pseudo Jan Wellens de Cock – The Crucifixion (triptych, approximate date)

### Sculpture

* Conrad Meit – Judith with the head of Holofernes (alabaster)

### Armor

* Kolman Helmschmid – Portions of a Costume Armor (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

## Births

* date unknown
** Cesare Baglioni, Italian painter specializing in quadratura (died 1590)
** Pieter Balten, Flemish Renaissance painter (died 1584)
** Ferrando Bertelli, Italian engraver of the Renaissance period (died unknown)
** René Boyvin, French engraver who lived in Angers (died 1598)
** Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Netherlandish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (died 1569)
** Ascanio Condivi, Italian painter and writer, primarily remembered as the biographer of Michelangelo (died 1574)
** Cristofano dell'Altissimo, Italian painter primarily working in Florence (died 1605)
** Guillaume Le Bé, French engraver (died 1598)
** Giulio Mazzoni, Italian painter and stuccoist (died 1618)
** Francesco Terzi, Italian painter of primarily religious themes (died 1600)
** Giovanni Maria Verdizotti, Venetian artist and poet (died 1600)
** Juan Valverde de Amusco, Italian anatomist and engraver (died 1587)
** Francisco Venegas, Spanish painter active in Portugal (died 1594)
** Alessandro Vittoria, Italian Mannerist sculptor of the Venetian school (died 1608)
** Song Xu, Chinese landscape painter (died unknown)
* 1525/1530: Hans Collaert, Flemish engraver (died 1580)

## Deaths

* January 24 - Franciabigio, Italian painter of the Florentine Renaissance (born 1482)
* June - Girolamo di Benvenuto, Italian painter, son of Benvenuto di Giovanni (born 1470)
* June 10 - Tosa Mitsunobu, Japanese painter and founder of the Tosa school of painting (born 1434)
* August 4 - Andrea della Robbia, Italian Renaissance sculptor, especially in ceramics (born 1435)
* date unknown
** Bernardino Bergognone - Italian Renaissance painter of the Milanese school (born 1455)
** Boccaccio Boccaccino, Italian painter of the Emilian school (born 1467)
** Vittore Carpaccio, Italian painter of the Venetian school (born 1460)
** Nunziata d'Antonio, Italian painter, fireworks artist, and bombardier (born 1468)
** Attavante degli Attavanti, Italian miniature painter (born 1452)
** Ortolano Ferrarese, Italian painter of the Ferrara School (born 1480 or 1490)
** Davide Ghirlandaio, Italian painter and mosaicist (born 1452)
** Michael Sittow, painter from modern Estonia who was trained in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting (born 1469)
** Sōami, Japanese painter and landscape artist (b. unknown)
** Jacob van Utrecht, Flemish early Renaissance painter (born 1479)