Events from the year 1531 in art.

Events

Works

• Albrecht Altdorfer – The Pride of the Beggar Sitting on the Train
• Correggio – Leda and the Swan
• Lucas Cranach the Elder – Cupid complaining to Venus (The honey thief) and The Three Graces (approximate date)
• Giulio Romano – Jonah and the Whale
• Giovanni Battista Piazzetta – Portrait of Sophie Juliane von der Schulenburg
• Lucas van Leyden – Healing the blind men of Jericho
• Bernard van Orley and William Dermoyen – The Battle of Pavia (tapestry, woven between 1528 and 1531)

Births

• Vincenzo Cartari, Italian painter (died 1569)
• Luis de Carbajal, Spanish painter of the Renaissance period (died 1618)
• Lodovico Leoni, Italian painter mainly active in Rome (died 1606)
• (born 1531/1532): Alonso Sánchez Coello, portrait painter of the Spanish Renaissance (died 1588)

Deaths

• Hans Burgkmair, German painter and printmaker in woodcut (born 1473)
• Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter from Florence (born 1486)
• Hans Leu the Younger, Swiss painter (born ca. 1490)
• Girolamo Mocetto, Italian Renaissance painter, engraver, and stained glass designer (born 1470)
• Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor and woodcarver (born 1460)