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1506 art
Events from the year 1506 in art.
Events
14 January - The classical statue of Laocoön and His Sons is unearthed in a vineyard near the site of the Domus Aurea of the Roman emperor Nero and the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. On the recommendation of Giuliano da Sangallo and Michelangelo, Pope Julius II purchases it and places it on public display in the Vatican a month later.
Francesco Raibolini becomes a court painter in Mantua.
Works
Painting
Category:1506 paintings
Giorgione
Laura (Portrait of a Young Bride)
Young Man with Arrow (approximate date)
Leonardo da Vinci – Mona Lisa
Raphael
Madonna del cardellino
Portrait of Maddalena Doni
Young Woman with Unicorn
Albrecht Dürer – Portrait of a Young Woman
Births
April 13 - Peter Faber (or Pierre Favre), French Jesuit painter and sculptor (died 1546)
date unknown - Ippolito Costa, Italian painter (died 1561)
probable
Domenico del Barbieri, Florentine painter (died 1570)
Hans Brosamer, German engraver, wood-cutter, and portraitist (died 1554)
Girolamo Lombardo, Italian sculptor (died 1590)
Bernard Salomon, French painter, draftsman and engraver (died 1561)
Deaths
August 26 - Sesshū Tōyō, master of suibokuga (ink painting), and a Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest (born 1420)
September 13 - Andrea Mantegna, Italian Renaissance painter and engraver (born 1431)https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andrea-Mantegna Andrea Mantegna Encyclopædia Britannica 21 November 2025
probable
Pietro di Domenico - Italian Renaissance painter (born 1457)
Pier Antonio Mezzastris, Italian painter of the Umbrian school (born 1430)
Giovanni di Stefano, Italian bronze-caster, engineer, and sculptor (born 1443)
References
Category:Years of the 16th century in art
Category:1500s in art