1576 in art

Events

Works

Paintings

Births

* Scipione Borghese, Italian art collector (d. 1633)
* Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (d. 1646)
* Roelant Savery - Flanders-born Dutch baroque painter of the Golden Age (d. 1633)
* David Vinckboons - Dutch painter of Flemish origin (d. 1632)
* Gregorio Fernández - Spanish sculptor Castilian school of sculpture (d. 1636)
* Francisco Herrera the Elder - Spanish painter and founder of the Seville school for the arts (d. 1656)
* Giovanni Battista Billoni - Italian painter born in Padua (d. 1636)
* Pietro Paolo Bonzi - Italian painter, best known for his landscapes and still-lifes (d. 1636)
* Girolamo Curti - Italian painter of the early-Baroque specializing in quadratura (d. 1632)
* Leonello Spada - Italian Caravaggisti specializing in decorative quadratura painting (d. 1622)
* Giovanni Battista Viola - Italian painter of landscape canvases (d. 1622)

Deaths

* August 27 - Titian - leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance (b. 1485)
* Anthony More, Dutch portrait painter (born 1520)
* Levina Teerlinc - Flemish miniaturist who served as a painter to the English court (b. 1510/1520)
* Lu Zhi - Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty (b. 1496)