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The year 1542 in art involved some significant events and new works.
Events
- Painter Paul Lautensack is expelled from Nuremberg as a result of his Reformist fanaticism.
Works
Paintings
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Wen Zhengming, Wintry trees after Li Cheng, 1542
- Wen Zhengming – Wintry trees after Li Cheng
- Titian
- Portrait of Clarissa Strozzi
- Portrait of Ranuccio Farnese
- Bronzini – Crossing of the Red Sea
- Domenico Beccafumi – Madonna and Child with Infant John the Baptist
Births
- date unknown - Joris Hoefnagel. Flemish painter and engraver (died 1601)
- probable
- Gillis Coignet, Flemish painter (died 1599)
- Ambroise Dubois, Flemish painter of the second School of Fontainebleau (died 1614)
- Felice Riccio, Italian painter (died 1605)
- Andrea Vicentino, Italian Mannerist painter (died 1617)
- Federico Zuccari, Italian Mannerist painter and architect (died 1609)
Deaths
- date unknown
- Dosso Dossi, Italian Renaissance painter who belonged to the Ferrara School of Painting (born 1490)
- Hans Krafft the Elder, German medallist (born 1481)
- Jan van Amstel, Dutch Northern Renaissance painter (born 1500)
- probable
- Francesco Xanto Avelli, Italian ceramicist (born 1487)
- Vasco Fernandes, Portuguese Renaissance painter (born 1475)