WAdoration of the Magi is a 1520s oil on panel painting by the Dutch renaissance artist Jan Mostaert in the collection of the Rijksmuseum.
WAntea is a painting by the Italian Mannerist artist Parmigianino, executed around 1524-1527.
WThe Carmignano Visitation is a c.1528-1530 oil on panel painting of the Visitation by Pontormo, now in the propositura dei Santi Michele e Francesco in Carmignano.
WThe Circumcision of Jesus, a painting by the Italian Mannerist artist Parmigianino of the common subject of the circumcision of Jesus, was made around 1523 and is now in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, United States.
WDeucalion and Pyhrra is an oil painting on panel of c. 1520–1525 by Domenico Beccafumi, now in the Museo Horne in Florence.
WEve, the Serpent and Death is a painting by the German Renaissance artist Hans Baldung, housed in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. The date of the picture is debated, with proposals ranging from the early 1510s to between 1525 and 1530. Its four main elements are the biblical Eve, a male figure personifying death and generally likened to Adam, a serpent, and a tree trunk.
WHoly Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist is a c.1528 painting by Parmigianino. It was in the Palazzo Farnese in Rome until 1662, when it moved to Parma. There it hung in the Palazzo del Giardino and later in the Galleria Ducale - the 'Descrizione' of the latter in 1725 called it one of the finest works on display there. It and the rest of the Farnese collection were later moved to Naples and the work was exhibited for a few years in the Palazzo Reale before moving to its present home in the National Museum of Capodimonte. Two early copies remain in the Galleria Nazionale and Palazzo Comunale in Parma.
WThe Ill-Matched Lovers is an oil painting by the early Netherlandish master Quentin Massys, usually dated between 1520 and 1525. This painting depicts the trope that old age can make one foolish. Massys depicts this theme by showing an older man besotted by a younger, beautiful woman. He gazes at her adoringly, not noticing that with the aid of an accomplice, she is stealing his purse. The face of the old man was influenced by a drawing done by Leonardo da Vinci, demonstrating Massys's skill in combining Northern European themes with Italian elements.
WThe Ill-Matched Marriage is an oil painting by a follower of the early Netherlandish master Quentin Matsys, usually dated between 1525 and 1530. The panel, probably inspired by an original lost drawing of Leonardo da Vinci, illustrates a marriage for economic reasons between persons of different ages. The painting is in the São Paulo Museum of Art. It was donated to the museum in 1965 by the Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza.
WThe Judgment of Paris is a 1528 painting by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder. It depicts the myth of Paris, Prince of Troy, selecting the fairest goddess from among Minerva, Juno, and Venus. Cranach likely based his depiction on medieval poetry or romances. The painting is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
WMadonna and Child Kissing is a 1520s oil on panel painting by the Flemish renaissance artist Quentin Matsys in the collection of the Rijksmuseum., on loan to the Mauritshuis.
WThe Malpaga Castle is a castle in the communal territory of Cavernago, a village in the province of Bergamo, northern Italy. Its main features are the interior rooms frescoed by the Renaissance painter Il Romanino.
WThe Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine is a painting by Correggio dating about the mid-1520s currently held and exhibited at the Louvre in Paris, France.
WPanciatichi Assumption is a painting by Italian Renaissance artist Andrea del Sarto, painted c. 1522-1523. It is housed in the Galleria Palatina of Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy.
WThe Sant'Agostino Altarpiece is a painting by Perugino, produced in two stages between around 1502 and 1512 and then around 1513 to 1523. The altarpiece's 28, 29 or 30 panels were split up during the Napoleonic suppression of religious houses - most of its panels are now in the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria in Perugia. It is notable as the painter's last masterwork before he moved into his late phase producing more provincial commissions.
WPortrait of a Collector is a painting by the Italian Mannerist artist Parmigianino, executed around 1524.
WPortrait of a Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling is an oil-on-oak portrait completed in around 1526–1528 by German Renaissance painter Hans Holbein the Younger. The painting shows a demurely dressed young woman sitting against a plain blue background and holding in her lap a squirrel on a chain eating a nut; a starling sits on a fig tree in the background with its beak pointing at her right ear. The subject of this portrait is believed to be Anne Lovell, wife of Sir Francis Lovell (d. 1551), an Esquire of the Body to Henry VIII.
WThe Portrait of an African Man also known as Portrait of a Moor is a painting by the Dutch Renaissance painter Jan Mostaert. Mostaert probably made the painting between c. 1525 and 1530, or slightly earlier. The exact subject of the painting has long been unclear, although numerous ideas have been put forward, including that the depicted figure is a soldier, a nobleman or Saint Maurice. The portrait is significant in that it may portray the earliest portrait of a specific black man in European painting, though Saint Maurice, and Balthazar of the Three Kings or Biblical Magi, had long been usually portrayed as black.
WPutti Bearing a Tondo showing the Drunkenness of Noah is a painting of 1522–23 by Domenico Beccafumi. It was recorded in the Medici inventories in the 17th century and derives from an incomplete composition now in the Monte dei Paschi's collections in Siena. The work is now in the Museo Horne.
WSacrifice of Isaac refers to a work by Andrea del Sarto, existing in three versions at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Museo del Prado.
WSaint Nicholas in Glory is an altarpiece painting by Italian Renaissance artist Lorenzo Lotto, executed in 1527-1529 and located in the church of Santa Maria dei Carmini, Venice.
WThe Salvation Triptych is a triptych in oils on canvas by Moretto da Brescia, dating to 1521–1524 or 1527–28. All three of its panels are now in private collections, two in Brescia and one in Biella.
WSalvator Mundi is a religious painting by Italian Renaissance artist Jacopo Negretti aka Palma (il) Vecchio, dated to c. 1518–22. It is on display in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Strasbourg, France. Its inventory number is 585.
WSir Thomas More and Family is a lost painting by Hans Holbein the Younger, painted circa 1527 and known from a number of surviving copies.
WThe Story of Papirius is a c.1520-1530 painting by Domenico Beccafumi, now in the National Gallery, London, to which it was presented by George Salting in 1894
WThe Taubischofsheim Altarpiece is a late work by the German Renaissance painter Matthias Grünewald, probably completed between 1523 and 1525. The earliest written references to the work come from the 18th century, when the altarpiece was still in the Church of St. Martin in Tauberbischofsheim. Its original location and the identity of the patron who commissioned it are not known, but it is assumed that they both were in Tauberbischofsheim.
WThe Temptation of St Anthony is a circa 1525 to 1530 oil on panel painting by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch, now in the Centraal Museum in Utrecht.
WTribute to Caesar is a fresco measuring 502x536 cm by Andrea del Sarto and Alessandro Allori in the central hall of the villa medicea di Poggio a Caiano, Province of Prato, Italy. It dates to circa 1520, and 1582.
WVirgin and Child with Saints Barbara and Catherine is a glue-size on linen painting by Flemish artist Quentin Matsys, probably painted c 1515–25. The Virgin Mary is shown on a throne, holding the Infant Jesus, between Barbara and Catherine of Alexandria, two saints popular in the early 16th century and considered the most important of the venerated Fourteen Holy Helpers. Jesus leans forward to place a ring on Catherine's finger, a reference to her vision in which she was to given Jesus by Mary in mystical marriage. Other indicators of the saints identities include the broken wheel - which refers to the torture of Catherine- and the tower, an allusion to Barbara's imprisonment and eventual beheading at the hands of her father.
WThe Vision of Saint Jerome is a painting by the Italian Mannerist artist Parmigianino, executed in 1526–1527. It is now in the National Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
WVisitation is a c.1524-1528 oil on canvas painting of the Visitation by Giovanni Cariani. It is unrecorded before its appearance in the 1929 catalogue of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, where it still hangs. No commissioner or precise date can be ascribed to it.