page_title: 1536
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1536 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam with Renaissance Pilaster. Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466/69–1536) was a renowned humanist scholar and theologian. He moved in 1521 to Basel, the city where Hans Holbein the Younger lived and had his workshop. Such was the fame of Erasmus, who corresponded with scholars throughout Europe, that he needed many portraits of himself to send abroad. Holbein painted three much-copied portraits of Erasmus in 1523, of which this is the largest and most elaborate. It is likely the one sent to William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, in England. Holbein later painted Warham after he travelled to England in 1526 in search of work, with a recommendation from Erasmus, who had once lived in England himself. Holbein's portrait of Erasmus includes a Latin couplet by the scholar, inscribed on the edge of the leaning book on the shelf, which states that Holbein would rather have a slanderer than an imitator. According to art historian Stephanie Buck, this portrait is "an idealized picture of a sensitive, highly cultivated scholar, and this was precisely how Erasmus wanted to be remembered by future generations" (Stephanie Buck, Hans Holbein, Cologne: Könemann, 1999, ISBN&#160;3829025831, p. 50).
context_page_description: Year 1536 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
context_section_description: January 6 – Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1481)
  January 7 – Catherine of Aragon, First Queen of Henry VIII of England (b. 1485)
  January 22
  John of Leiden, Anabaptist leader from the Dutch city of Leiden (b. 1509)
  Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader (b. c. 1495)
  February 25
  Berchtold Haller, German-born reformer (b. 1492)
  Jacob Hutter, Tyrolean founder of the Hutterite religious movement (burned at the stake)
  March 1 – Bernardo Accolti, Italian poet (b. 1465)
  March 15 – Pargali Ibrahim Pasha, Ottoman grand vizier (b. 1493)
  April 4 – Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1460)
  May 17 – George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford, English diplomat (executed) (b. 1503)
  May 19 – Anne Boleyn, second queen of Henry VIII of England (executed) (b. c. 1501/1507)
  May 31 – Charles I, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, Count of Kladsko, Governor of Bohemia and Silesia (b. 1476)
  June 29 – Bernhard III, Margrave of Baden-Baden (b. 1474)
  July 12 – Erasmus, Dutch philosopher (b. 1466)
  July 23 – Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, illegitimate son of Henry VIII of England (b. 1519)
  June 28 – Richard Pace, English diplomat (b. 1482)
  August 10 – Francis III, Duke of Brittany, Dauphin of France, brother of Henry II (b. 1518)
  September 25 – Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (b. 1511)
  September 26 – Didier de Saint-Jaille, 46th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller
  September 27 – Felice della Rovere, also known as Madonna Felice, was the illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II (b. 1483)
  October 6 – William Tyndale, English Protestant Bible translator (b. c. 1494)
  October 14 – Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet (b. 1503)
  December 21 – Sir John Seymour, English courtier (b. 1474)
  date unknown
  Hector Boece, Scottish philosopher (b. 1465)
  Cecilia Gallerani, principal mistress of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1473)
  Hiraga Genshin, Japanese retainer and samurai
  John Rastell, English printer and author
  Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, French theologian and humanist (b. c. 1450)
caption: Erasmus
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