Events from the year 1501 in art.

• Leonardo, Madonna of the Yarnwinder
• Raphael, Baronci altarpiece
• Bellini, Leonardo Loredan

• Giovanni Bellini – Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan
• Giorgione – The Three Ages of Man
• Leonardo da Vinci – Madonna of the Yarnwinder
• Raphael – Baronci altarpiece

• date unknown
  • Girolamo da Carpi, court painter and decorator to the Duke d'Este (died 1556)
  • Perino del Vaga, Italian painter (died 1547)
  • Wang Guxiang, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (died 1568)
  • Wen Jia, Chinese painter of landscapes and flowers during the Ming Dynasty (died 1583)

• Gil de Siloé, Spanish Gothic sculptor of Flemish origin (born 1440)
• Bartolomeo di Giovanni, early renaissance Italian painter of the Florentine School (b. unknown)
• Ali-Shir Nava'i, Central Asian politician, mystic, linguist, painter and poet (born 1441)
• Antonio Rinaldeschi, Italian gambler, executed for throwing dung at a painting of the Virgin Mary above the doorway of the church of Santa Maria degli Alberghi in Florence (born unknown)
• 1501/1502 – Vittorio Crivelli, Italian painter (born 1440)