1538 in art

Events

Works

Painting

* Michaelangelo - "Study for the Colonna Pieta"
* Jacopo Bassano - "The Supper at Emmaus"

Births

* Antonio Abondio - Italian sculptor, best known as a medallist and as the pioneer of the coloured wax relief portrait miniature (d. 1591)
* Pablo de Céspedes - Spanish painter, poet, and architect (d. 1608)

Deaths

* Hans Dürer - German Renaissance painter, illustrator, and engraver (b. 1490)
* Albrecht Altdorfer - German painter, pioneer of landscape in art (b. 1480)
* Giorgio Gandini del Grano - Italian painter of the Parmesan school of Painting (b. "unknown")
* Zhang Lu - Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (b. 1464)