Events from the year 1545 in art.
Events
Works
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Bronzino, Eleanor of Toledo with her son Giovanni
Paintings
- Bronzino
- Eleanor of Toledo with her son Giovanni de' Medici
- Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici
- Portrait of Giovanni de' Medici as a Child
- Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time
- Lucas Cranach the Younger – The Conversion of St. Paul
- Gerlach Flicke – Thomas Cranmer
- Master John – Catherine Parr (approximate date)
- Michelangelo – The Conversion of Saul
- Francesco de' Rossi (Il Salviati) – Triumph of Camillus (fresco for Cosimo I de' Medici in Sala dell'Udienza, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence (completed))
- Titian – some dates approximate
- Daniele da Volterra (after drawings by Michelangelo) – Descent from the Cross (approximate date)
Sculpture
- (approx. date) – Hans Gieng of Fribourg completes work on the fountains of Bern in Switzerland.
Births
- date unknown
- Farrukh Beg, Mughal painter who served in the court of Muhammad Hakim (died 1615)
- Francesco da Urbino, Italian painter (died 1582)
- Hans Collaert, Flemish engraver and draughtsman (died 1628)
- Frans Pourbus the Elder, Flemish Renaissance painter primarily of religious and portraits (died 1581)
- William Rogers, English engraver (died 1604)
- Marco Vecellio, Italian painter, nephew of Titian (died 1611)
- Juan Zariñena, Spanish painter (died 1634)
Deaths
- September - Hans Baldung, German Renaissance artist as painter and printmaker in woodcut (born 1484)
- date unknown
- Alejo Fernandez, Spanish painter best known for his portrait of Christopher Columbus (born 1475)
- Rueland Frueauf the Younger - German Late-Gothic painter (born 1470)
- Albrecht Glockendon the Younger, German miniaturist and woodcutter (born 1500)
- Vicente Juan Masip - Spanish painter of the Renaissance period (born 1475)
- Wang E, Chinese landscape painter (born 1465)