Events from the year 1549 in art.

Events Sculptor Hans Vischer, the last of the Vischer Family of Nuremberg, leaves the city.

Works

Bartolommeo Bandinelli - God the Father (statue), in the cloister of Santa Croce, Florence Bronzino – Portrait of Giovanni de' Medici Tintoretto – St. Roch in the Hospital

Births July 5 - Francesco Maria del Monte, Italian Cardinal and arts patron (Caravaggio) (died 1627) September 1 - Cesare Aretusi, Italian painter (died 1612) date unknown - Giovanni Contarini, Venetian painter (died 1605) probable (born 1549/1551) - Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Italian painter (died 1608)

Deaths February 14 - Il Sodoma, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1477) March - Aelbrecht Bouts, Dutch painter date unknown - Jean Juste, Italian sculptor (born 1485)

References