page_title: 16th century
section_title: Visual artists
hierarchical_section_title: 16th century / Significant people / Visual artists
context_page_description: The 16th century begins with the Julian year 1501 and ends with either the Julian or the Gregorian year 1600.
  The 16th century is regarded by historians as the century in which the rise of Western civilization and the Age of the Islamic Gunpowders occurred.
  During the 16th century, Spain and Portugal explored the Indian Ocean and opened worldwide oceanic trade routes, and Vasco da Gama was given permission by the Indian Sultans to settle in the wealthy Bengal Sultanate. Large parts of the New World became Spanish and Portuguese colonies, and while the Portuguese became the masters of Asia's and Africa's Indian Ocean trade, the Spanish opened trade across the Pacific Ocean, linking the Americas with India.
  This era of colonialism established mercantilism as the leading school of economic thought, where the economic system was viewed as a zero-sum game in which any gain by one party required a loss by another. The mercantilist doctrine encouraged the many intra-European wars of the period and arguably fueled European expansion and imperialism throughout the world until the 19th century or early 20th century.
context_section_description: Bartolommeo Bandinelli (1493–1560), Italian sculptor
  Donato Bramante (1444–1514), Italian architect
  Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian painter and sculptor (1475–1564).
  Bronzino (1503–1572), Italian painter
  Pieter Bruegel the Elder, (c. 1525 – September 9, 1569)
  Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568–1625),
  Caravaggio(1571–1610), Italian artist.
  Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571), Italian jeweller and sculptor.
  Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553), German painter.
  Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515–1586), German painter.
  Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), German artist.
  Rosso Fiorentino (1494–1540), Italian painter.
  Domenico Fontana (1543–1607), Italian architect.
  Giambologna (1529–1608), Flemish-Italian sculptor.
  El Greco (1541–1614), Greek-Spanish painter, sculptor, and architect
  Juan de Herrera, Spanish architect (1530–1597)
  Hans Holbein the Younger, German artist, (1497–1543)
  Andrea Palladio (1508–1580), Italian architect
  Parmigianino (1503–1540), Italian painter
  Pontormo (1494–1557), Italian painter.
  Raphael (1483–1520), Italian painter
  Giulio Romano (c. 1499–1546), Italian painter and architect.
  Andrea del Sarto (1486–1530), Italian painter.
  Giuliano da Sangallo (c. 1445 – 1516), Italian sculptor, architect and military engineer
  Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (1484–1546), Italian architect
  Mimar Sinan (1489–1588) was a civil engineer and chief architect of the Ottoman Empire
  Tintoretto (1518–1594), Italian painter
  Titian(c. 1485–1576), Italian painter
  Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574), Italian painter, architect, writer and historian.
  Paolo Veronese, Italian painter, (1528 – April 19, 1588)
  Leonardo da Vinci famous artist and inventor and scientist (1452–1519).
  Qiu Ying, Chinese painter who belonged to the Wu School and used gongbi brush style (1494–1552)
caption: Michelangelo Buonarroti
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