1543 in art

Image:Portrait_of_Pope_Paul_III_Farnese_(by_Titian)_-_National_Museum_of_Capodimonte.jpg|Titian, Portrait of Pope Paul III without a Cap • Benvenuto Cellini sculpts the Cellini Salt Cellar for Francis I of France Paintings • Hans Holbein the Younger – Portrait of John Chambers • Lucas Horenbout – Portrait miniature of Hans Holbein the Younger • Lorenzo Lotto – Husband and Wife • Master IW - The murder of St. Wenceslas at St Vitus Cathedral, Prague • Titian - Ecce Homo ==Births==

• February 16 - Kanō Eitoku, Japanese painter of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, patriarchs of the Kanō school of Japanese painting (died 1590) • date unknown • Alessandro Fei, Italian painter who primarily worked in a Mannerist style (died 1592) • Quentin Metsys the Younger, Flemish painter at the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England (died 1589) • probable - François Quesnel, French painter of Scottish extraction (died 1619) ==Deaths==

• October/November - Hans Holbein the Younger, German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style (born 1497) • November 30 - Francesco Granacci, Italian painter (born 1469) • date unknown • Polidoro da Caravaggio, Italian painter (born 1492/1495) • Altobello Melone, Italian painter (born 1490/1491) ==References==