1543 in art

The year 1543 in art involved some significant events and new works.

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Works

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  Titian, Portrait of Pope Paul III without a Cap

• Benvenuto Cellini sculpts the Cellini Salt Cellar for Francis I of France

Paintings

• Hans Holbein the Younger – Portrait of John Chambers
• Lucas Horenbout – Portrait miniature of Hans Holbein the Younger
• Lorenzo Lotto – Husband and Wife
• Master IW - The murder of St. Wenceslas at St Vitus Cathedral, Prague[1][2]
• Titian - Ecce Homo

Births

• February 16 - Kanō Eitoku, Japanese painter of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, patriarchs of the Kanō school of Japanese painting (died 1590)
• date unknown
  • Alessandro Fei, Italian painter who primarily worked in a Mannerist style (died 1592)
  • Quentin Metsys the Younger, Flemish painter at the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England (died 1589)
• probable - François Quesnel, French painter of Scottish extraction (died 1619)

Deaths

• October/November - Hans Holbein the Younger, German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style (born 1497)
• November 30 - Francesco Granacci, Italian painter (born 1469)
• date unknown
  • Polidoro da Caravaggio, Italian painter (born 1492/1495)
  • Altobello Melone, Italian painter (born 1490/1491)

References

1. Severočeská galerie Výtvarného umění v Litoměřicích - Galerie a muzeum litoměřické diecéze
2. Karel Chytil: Kdo byl mistr I.W.? in Památky archeologické a místopisné XVI, Praha 1895, pp. 555-558; Ladislav Kesner st.: Mistr IW., Galerie výtvarného umění, Litoměřice 1993