Overview of the events of 1546 in art
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Events from the year 1546 in art.
Events
- The plan for the new St. Peter's Basilica dome, begun by Bramante, is continued by the new chief architect, Michelangelo.
- The Farnese Hercules is removed from the Baths of Caracalla by Cardinal Cardinal Alessandro Farnese to the Palazzo Farnese in Rome.
Works
Paintings
- Domenico Beccafumi – Pagan Child Couple
- Jacopo Bassano – The Adoration of the Shepherds
- Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta – Holy Family with Saint Michael
- Lorenzo Lotto – San Giacomo dell'Orio Altarpiece
- William Scrots
- Titian – Pope Paul III and his Grandsons
Births
- March 21 - Bartholomeus Spranger, Flemish Northern Mannerist painter, draughtsman, and etcher (died 1611)
Deaths
- January 4 - Camillo Boccaccino, Italian painter active mainly in Cremona and regions of Lombardy (born 1511)
- January 11 - Gaudenzio Ferrari, Italian painter and sculptor of the Renaissance (born 1471)
- August 1 - Peter Faber (or Pierre Favre), French Jesuit painter and sculptor (born 1506)
- October 23 - Peter Flötner, German designer, sculptor, and printmaker (born 1490)
- November 1 - Giulio Romano, Italian painter and architect (born 1499)
- date unknown
- Valerio Belli, Italian engraver and medallion maker (born 1470)
- Jan van Calcar, Netherlands-born Italian painter, pupil of Titian (born 1499)
- Bartolomeo Veneto - Italian portrait painter (born 1502)
- probable - Marinus van Reymerswaele, Dutch Renaissance painter (born 1490
References
- Chronicled by Ulisse Aldrovandi (1556).