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The year 1515 in art involved some significant events and new works.
Events
- Giovanni Antonio da Brescia's engraving of the Belvedere Torso attracts the interest of connoisseurs and artists outside Rome.
Works
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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)
- Lucas Cranach the Elder – The Massacre of the Innocents (approximate date)
- Gerard David – Virgin and Child with Four Angels (approximate completion date)
- Albrecht Dürer
- 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)
References