1508 in art

• December - Michelangelo begins painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling in the Holy See of Rome on a commission by Pope Julius II (signed May 10). This year also he completes a bronze statue of the Pope for San Petronio Basilica in Bologna, destroyed in 1511. ==Works==

Giorgione, The tempest.jpg|Giorgione, The Tempest Image:Tempi Madonna - Raphael.jpg|Raphael, The Tempi Madonna • Fra Bartolomeo - Holy Father, St. Mary Magdalene and St. Catherine of Siena • Vittore Carpaccio - The Presentation of the Virgin (approximate date) • Albrecht Dürer • Heller Altarpiece (possible date) • Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand • Giorgione (approximate dates) • Shepherd with a Flute • The Tempest • La Vecchia (Old Woman) • Lorenzo Lotto • Madonna with Child between Sts. Flavian and Onuphrius • Recanati Polyptych • Raphael • Colonna Madonna • Niccolini-Cowper Madonna • The Tempi Madonna • Lucas van Leyden – Mohammed and the Murdered Monk (engraving) ==Births==

• November 25 - Cristofano Gherardi, Italian Mannerist painter (died 1556) • date unknown • Livio Agresti, Italian painter, one of the members of the "Forlì painting school" (died 1580) • Pieter Aertsen, Dutch historical painter (died 1575) • Antonio da Trento, Italian artist especially of woodcuts (died 1550) • Girolamo da Treviso, Italian painter (died 1544) • Giovanni Bernardo Lama, Italian painter (died 1579) • Qian Gu, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (died c.1578) • 1508/1510: Lodovico Dolce, Italian art theorist (died 1568) • 1507/1508: Wenzel Jamnitzer, Northern Mannerist goldsmith, artist, and printmaker in etching (died 1585) ==Deaths==

• Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis, Italian Renaissance painter from Milan (born 1455) • Wu Wei, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (born 1459) • 1508/1509: Bernt Notke, German painter and sculptor (born 1435) ==References==