1504 in art

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Events

• September 8 – Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence
• The Signoria of Florence commissions both Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci to paint the walls of the Grand Council Chamber in the Palazzo della Signoria

Works

Michelangelo's David

Painting

• Hieronymus Bosch – The Garden of Earthly Delights (triptych; approximate date)
• Lucas Cranach the Elder – The Rest on the Flight to Egypt
• Albrecht Dürer – Adoration of the Magi
• Leonardo da Vinci – The Battle of Anghiari
• Pietro Perugino – Marriage of the Virgin
• Raphael – Marriage of the Virgin, Portrait of Pietro Bembo, St. George, Vision of a Knight

Sculpture

• Michelangelo – David

Births

• April 30 – Francesco Primaticcio, Bolognese painter, architect, and sculptor (died 1570)
• Camillo Boccaccino – Italian painter active mainly in Cremona and regions of Lombardy (died 1546)
• Juan Vicente Macip (or Vicente Joanes Masip or Macip), Spanish painter, head of the Valencian school of painters (died 1579)
• Shin Saimdang – Korean genre works painter and calligraphist (died 1551)
• Sesson Shukei – Japanese Zen monk and painter from the Muromachi period (died 1589)

Deaths

• April – Filippino Lippi, Tuscan painter (born 1457)
• Pedro Berruguete – Spanish painter (born 1450)