Events from the year 1512 in art.
Events
- Michelangelo completes his nine Sistine Chapel ceiling paintings of the Creation.
Works
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- Hans Baldung – The Trinity and Mystic Pietà
- Fra Bartolomeo – Madonna in Glory with Saints (altarpiece, Besançon Cathedral, 1511–12)
- Albrecht Dürer – The Virgin Mary Appearing to St. John on Patmos (woodcut)
- Leonardo da Vinci – Self-portrait in red chalk (approximate date)
- Michelangelo – Sistine Chapel ceiling, including the Separation of Light from Darkness (completed)
- Raphael
- The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple (fresco in the Raphael Rooms of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican)
- Portrait of Pope Julius II
- The Triumph of Galatea (fresco in Villa Farnesina in Rome)
- Titian – approximate date
- Lucas van Leyden – The History of Joseph series of engravings, e.g. Joseph Explains Pharaoh's Dream
- Bernard van Orley – Triptych of the Carpenters and Masons Corporation of Brussels ("Apostle Altar")
Births
- date unknown
- Lazzaro Calvi, Italian painter who frequently collaborated with his brother (died 1587)
- Luis de Morales, Spanish painter known as "El Divino" (died 1586)
- Battista del Moro, Italian painter of the Renaissance period active in his native Verona (died 1568)
- Prospero Fontana, Italian painter of the late Renaissance, (died 1597)
- (born 1512/1520): Giorgio Ghisi, Italian coppersmith, painter, and engraver (died 1582)
- 1512/1515: Marcello Venusti, Italian Mannerist painter primarily in Rome (died 1579)
Deaths
- April 5 - Lazzaro Bastiani, Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in Venice (born 1449)
- date unknown - Giovanni Cristoforo Romano, Italian sculptor and medallist (born 1456)
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