Events from the year 1543 in art. Works
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, PragueSeveročeská galerie Výtvarného umění v Litoměřicích - Galerie a muzeum litoměřické diecézeKarel 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 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)
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