1505 in art

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Events

• Leonardo da Vinci completed after three years of work, the painting of Mona Lisa.
• Sodoma painted a large fresco cycle of the life of St. Benedict for the monastery of Monte Oliveto Maggiore and at the same time, the Descent from the Cross, now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena.
• Albrecht Dürer traveled for a year in Venice.
• Lucas Cranach the Elder Wittenberg gets a job as a court painter to the Elector Frederick the Wise of Saxony. He takes over the previously headed by Jacopo de ' Barbari 's painting workshop in Wittenberg Castle, whose responsibilities include not only the features of churches and palaces with paintings, but also designs of party decorations. Cranach soon also deals with graphic prints, especially woodcuts.

• 1505: Giorgione made ​​the painting The three philosophers.
• 1505: Piero di Cosimo painted Venus, Mars and Cupid.
• 1505: The Primer of Claude of France created.

Born

• Pomponio Amalteo, Italian painter († 1588)
• Jakob Seisenegger German painters of the Renaissance ( † 1567)

• 1505: Jörg Wickram: German writers, goldsmith and painter († 1562)
• 1505/1506: Lambert Lombard, Flemish painter and architect († 1566)

Died

• Hans Schüchlin, German painter (c. 1430)