Events from the year 1541 in art.
Events Michelangelo completes his fresco The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. Cardinal Alexander writes to Bishop Marco Vigerio discussing frescoes to be done by Michelangelo for the Cappella Paolina.
Works
Battista Franco Veneziano paints fresco of the Arrest of John the Baptist for the Oratory of San Giovanni Decollato Pietro Negroni paints Adoration of Magi Titian – The Marquis of Vasto addressing his troops Antoine Caron – Dionysius Areopagite and the Eclipse of Sun(image)
Births date unknown El Greco (or Domenikos Theotokopoulos), painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance (died 1614) Aert Mijtens, Flemish Renaissance painter (died 1602) Yi Chong, Korean painter (died 1622)
Deaths January 6 - Bernard van Orley, Flemish Northern Renaissance painter and draughtsman (born 1487-1491) August - Valentin Bousch, glass painter (born 1490) date unknown Jean Clouet, miniaturist and painter who worked in France during the Renaissance (born 1480) Gerard Horenbout, Flemish miniaturist (born 1465) Stanisław Samostrzelnik, Polish Renaissance painter and Cistercian monk (born 1490)
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