Contents

• Events
• Painting
• Sculpture
• Births
• Deaths

Events from the year 1511 in art.

Events

• Albrecht Dürer publishes his woodcut series "Life of the Virgin", the "Great Passion" and "Little Passion".
• Michelangelo's 1508 bronze statue of Pope Julius II in San Petronio Basilica, Bologna is destroyed.
• The Miracle of 1511, a festival in Brussels in which the locals built approximately 110 satirical snowmen.

Births

• Bartolomeo Ammanati, architect and sculptor (died 1592)
• Camillo Boccaccino, Italian painter active mainly in Cremona and regions of Lombardy (died 1546)
• Jean Court, enamel painter (died 1583)
• Zhang Han, Chinese scholar-official, literary author, painter, and essayist (died 1593)
• Bernardino Lanini, Italian Renaissance painter active mainly in Milan (died 1578)
• Lelio Orsi, Italian Renaissance painter of the Reggio Emilia school (died 1587)
• Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect, who is today famous for his biographies of Italian artists (died 1574)

Deaths

• Simón de Colonia, Spanish architect and sculptor (b. unknown)
• Raimo Epifanio Tesauro, Italian Renaissance painter specializing in frescoes (born 1480)