26 July: Bartolomeo di Pagholo ("Baccio della Porta") becomes a Dominican friar.
Sandro Botticelli begins painting of Adoration of the Christ Child (1500-1510) as a tondo (round painting), oil on panel.
Fra Bartolomeo – Annunciation (oil tempera on wood; Uffizi, Florence)
Sandro Botticelli – The Mystical Nativity (National Gallery, London)
Albrecht Dürer
Lamentation of Christ (approximate date)
Paumgartner altarpiece (approximate date)
Self-Portrait
Seven Sorrows Polyptych (approximate date)
Giorgione – Adoration of the Shepherds (approximate completion date)
Pietro Perugino - Vallombrosa Altarpiece
Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli, Italian painter of the Parmesan School of Painting (died 1569)
Hans Sebald Beham, German printmaker, engraver, designer of woodcuts, painter and miniaturist (died 1550)
Niccolò Boldrini, Italian engraver (died 1566)
Domenico Campagnola, Italian painter and engraver of the Renaissance period (died 1564); he was a pupil of his father, the painter Giulio Campagnola
Giulio Campi, Italian painter and architect (died 1572)
Pompeo Cesura, Italian painter and engraver (died 1571)
Jean Chartier, French painter, draughtsman, printer and publisher (died 1580)
Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (died 1571)
Pieter Claeissens the Elder, Flemish painter (died 1576)
Jean Cousin the Elder, French painter, sculptor, etcher, engraver, and geometrician (died 1593)
Giovanni Filippo Criscuolo, Italian painter (died 1584)
Albrecht Glockendon the Younger, German miniaturist and woodcutter (died 1545)
Juan Vicente Macip (or Vicente Joanes Masip), Spanish painter of the Renaissance period (died 1579)
Jean Mone, German-Flemish sculptor (died 1548)
Alessandro Oliverio, Italian painter (died 1544)
Georg Pencz, German engraver, painter and printmaker (died 1550)
Luca Penni, Italian painter, member of the School of Fontainebleau (died 1556)
Ligier Richier, French sculptor (died 1567)
Francesco Torbido, Italian painter (died 1581)
Niccolò Tribolo, Italian Mannerist artist (died 1550)
Jan van Amstel, Dutch Northern Renaissance painter (died 1542)
Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Flemish Northern Renaissance painter (died 1566)
Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, Dutch Northern Renaissance painter (died 1559)
(born 1500/1509): Giovanni Battista Castello, Italian historical painter (died 1569/1579)
Antonio del Rincón, Spanish painter and artist (born 1446)
Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi, Italian painter and sculptor (born 1447)
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