1544 in art

Events from the year 1544 in art.

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Events

• September 10 - Italian painter Girolamo da Treviso is killed by cannon shot at the First Siege of Boulogne while working as a military engineer for Henry VIII of England.

Works

Cranach – Hunt in Honour of Charles V at the Castle of Torgau, Museo del Prado

• Hans Baldung - The Seven Ages of Woman
• Luca Cambiaso – Hercules
• Lucas Cranach the Younger – Hunt in Honour of Charles V at the Castle of Torgau
• Master John – Lady Mary, daughter to... King Henry the Eighth
• Giorgio Vasari - Six Tuscan Poets

Births

• January 24 - Gillis van Coninxloo, Dutch painter of forest landscapes (died 1607)
• date unknown
  • Jacopo Bertoia, Italian painter of a late-Renaissance or Mannerist style (died 1574)
  • Giovanni Guerra, Italian draughtsman and painter (died 1618)
  • Ambrosius Francken I, Flemish painter (died 1616)
  • Jan de Hoey, Dutch painter (died 1615)
  • Francesco Morandini, Italian painter active in Florence (died 1597)
  • Joos van Winghe, Flemish painter (died 1603)

Deaths

• July 17 - Giovanni Antonio Sogliani, Italian painter (born 1492)
• September 10 - Girolamo da Treviso, Italian painter (born 1508)
• date unknown
  • Chén Chún, Chinese artist specializing in "ink and wash" paintings (born 1483)
  • Vincenzo Civerchio, Italian painter of the Renaissance (born 1470)
  • Jost de Negker, Dutch woodcut-maker, printer and publisher (born 1485)
  • Lucas Horenbout, Flemish artist and court miniaturist to King Henry VIII of England (born 1490/1495)
  • Alessandro Oliverio, Italian painter (born 1500)