1512 in art

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Events

Architecture

• The town hall will be completed by Osnabrück 25 - year construction period.

Sistine Chapel

After more than four years working ceiling painting in the Sistine Chapel in the presence of the customer Pope Julius II is unveiled on November 1, Michelangelo Buonarotti. They show scenes from Genesis on a total of 520 m² with 115 -than-life characters. In particular, the fresco The Creation of Adam is one of the most famous works of art history. Immediately after the completion of the ceiling paintings Michelangelo devoted himself to his favorite project, the grave monument of Pope Julius II

Woodcut

• Lucas Cranach the Elder made ​​the woodcut werewolf.
• Emperor Maximilian I commissioned Albrecht Dürer with a monumental woodcut, the triumphal arch, modeled on the ancient triumphal arches.

Other works of painting

• The master of Prenzlauer high altar completed the high altar of St. Mary's Church in Prenzlau.
• Raphael begins by order of Pope Julius II on the occasion of the incorporation of the town of Piacenza in the Papal States after the victory over the French in the previous year with the work Sistine Madonna for the high altar of the monastery church of San Sisto in Piacenza.

• Raphael's workshop manufactures three versions of the portrait of Pope Julius II, a key work for the representative Pope Portrait of the following centuries.

• 1512 created the so-called "Self-Portrait " by Leonardo da Vinci. Whether it is in fact a self-portrait in which work is controversial by critics. The identity of the represented person is doubtful and the authorship is uncertain.

Born

• March 5: Gerhard Mercator, cartographer († 1594 )

• Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect († 1572)
• Prospero Fontana, Italian Renaissance painter († 1597)
• Urs Graf the Younger, Swiss goldsmith and mercenaries († 1559 )
• John Holl, Augsburg Renaissance - builders († 1594 )
• Antonio da Ponte, Italian architect († 1595 )

• To 1512/1514: Herman Posthumus, Dutch painter and architect ( † before 1588)
• 1512 or 1520: Giorgio Ghisi: Italian engraver, painter and Tausiator († 1582)

Died

• Olivier van Ghent, Flemish sculptor (* 1470 )

• After 1512: Hans raphon, German painter (* 1460/1470)