1515 in art

Events

• Giovanni Antonio da Brescia's engraving of the Belvedere Torso attracts the interest of connoisseurs and artists outside Rome.

Works

Dürer's Rhinoceros

• Giovanni Bellini – Naked Young Woman in Front of the Mirror
• Cima da Conegliano – Virgin and Child with Saints and Donors (Cleveland Museum of Art)
• Piero di Cosimo – The Myth of Prometheus (series)
• Gerard David – Virgin and Child with Four Angels (approximate completion date)
• Albrecht Dürer – The Rhinoceros (woodcut)
• Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da Imola – The Virgin and Child with Saints Sebastian, Roch, Cosmas and Damian
• Jan Gossaert – The Adoration of the Kings
• Matthias Grünewald – Isenheim Altarpiece (Unterlinden Museum, Colmar, Alsace)
• Leonardo da Vinci – Bacchus
• Jacopo Pontormo – Pharaoh with his Butler and Baker
• Raphael
  • Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione (probable date)
  • Portrait of Bindo Altoviti
  • La velata
• Titian (some dates approximate)
  • Noli me tangere
  • Salome
  • Tarquin and Lucretia (attributed)
  • Vanity
  • Violante
  • Woman with a Mirror
  • Young Woman in a Black Dress

Births

• October 4 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter and wood-engraver (died 1586)
• probable
  • Jean Bullant, French sculptor and architect (died 1578)
  • Nicolas Denisot, French Renaissance poet and painter (died 1559)
  • Willem Key, Flemish painter (died 1568)
  • (born 1515/1520) Lambert Sustris, Dutch painter (died 1584)

Deaths

• November 5 – Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian Renaissance painter (born 1474)
• date unknown - Pietro Lombardo, Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect (born 1435)
• probable
  • Giulio Campagnola, Italian engraver and painter, inventor of the stipple technique in engraving (born 1482)
  • Vincenzo Foppa, Italian painter (born 1430)