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1511 art
Events from the year 1511 in art.
Events
thumb|300px|Raphael, The School of Athens, 1511, Vatican City, Apostolic Palace
Albrecht Dürer publishes his woodcut series "Life of the Virgin", the "Great Passion" and "Little Passion".
Michelangelo's 1508 bronze statue of Pope Julius II in San Petronio Basilica, Bologna is destroyed.
The Miracle of 1511, a festival in Brussels in which the locals built approximately 110 satirical snowmen.
Painting
Albrecht Dürer – Adoration of the Trinity (Landauer Altarpiece)
Matthias Grünewald – The Small Crucifixion
Michelangelo – The Creation of the Sun, Moon and Planets
Raphael
Frescoes in Raphael Rooms of Apostolic Palace in Rome
Cardinal and Theological Virtues
The Parnassus
The School of Athens
Madonna of Foligno
Madonna of Loreto
Portrait of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese
Portrait of Pope Julius II
Titian
The Gypsy Madonna
Miracle of the Jealous Husband (fresco, Scuola del Santo, Padua)
The Miracle of the Speaking Babe
St. Mark Enthroned (1510 or 1511; Santa Maria della Salute, Venice)
Sculpture
Adam Dircksz (attrib.) – Miniature altarpiece (British Museum, London, WB.232)
Births
Bartolomeo Ammanati, architect and sculptor (died 1592)
Camillo Boccaccino, Italian painter active mainly in Cremona and regions of Lombardy (died 1546)
Jean Court, enamel painter (died 1583)
Zhang Han, Chinese scholar-official, literary author, painter, and essayist (died 1593)
Bernardino Lanini, Italian Renaissance painter active mainly in Milan (died 1578)
Lelio Orsi, Italian Renaissance painter of the Reggio Emilia school (died 1587)
Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect, who is today famous for his biographies of Italian artists (died 1574)https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giorgio-Vasari Giorgio Vasari Encyclopædia Britannica 21 November 2025
Deaths
Simón de Colonia, Spanish architect and sculptor (b. unknown)
Raimo Epifanio Tesauro, Italian Renaissance painter specializing in frescoes (born 1480)
References
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