Events from the year 1503 in art.

Events Leonardo da Vinci probably begins painting the Mona Lisa in Florence Giuliano Bugiardini joins the painter's guild in Florence First record of Matthias Grünewald painting

Works

Mariotto Albertinelli – The Visitation of the Virgin Albrecht Dürer – Great Piece of Turf (Das große Rasenstück, watercolor) Filippino Lippi – Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine Pietro Perugino – Combat of Love and Chastity Raphael – Madonna and Child with the Book (approximate date) Luca Signorelli – Portrait of Vitelozzo Vitelli Master of Frankfurt – Holy Kinship (Historical Museum, Frankfurt) Madonna of Laroque, perhaps by Leonardo da Vinci

Births Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian Mannerist painter from Florence (died 1572) Pedro Campaña, Flemish painter of the Renaissance period (died 1586) Paul Dax, Austrian artist (died 1561) Parmigianino, Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker (died 1540) Augustin Hirschvogel, German artist, mathematician, and cartographer known primarily for his etchings (died 1553) Giovanni Battista Scultori, Italian painter, sculptor and engraver (died 1575) Michele Tosini, Italian painter of the Renaissance and Mannerist period, who worked in Florence (died 1577)

Deaths Israhel van Meckenem, German printmaker and goldsmith (born 1445) 1502/1503: Giovanni Donato da Montorfano, Italian painter (born 1460)

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