1565 in art

Events

*"none listed"

Works

Paintings

* Pieter Bruegel the Elder paints the cycle of the seasons::*"The Hunters in the Snow" (winter) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum.:*"The Gloomy Day" (old beginning of the year in March) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum.:*"The Hay Harvest" (early summer) in Nelahozeves (Czech Republic).:*"The Harvesters" (late summer) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York.:*"The Return of the Herd" (autumn) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
* Pieter Bruegel the Elder paints "Winter Landscape with Skaters" and also "Bird Trap".
* Sebastiano Filippi (Bastianino) paints "Birth of the Virgin".
* Tintoretto begins painting the cycle of the life of Christ (1565 to 1567), including "Crucifixion", in the Sala dell'Albergo (Hall of the Hostel) in the Scuola di San Rocco, in Venice.
* Titian paints "Venus Blindfolding Cupid" (c.1565).
* At the Palazzo Vecchio, Giorgio Vasari paints the frescoes on the walls, representing scenes of the Austrian Habsburg estates.

Births

* Jacob de Gheyn II - Dutch painter and engraver (d. 1629)
* Francisco Ribalta - Spanish painter of the Baroque period, mostly of religious subjects (d. 1628)
* Isaac Oliver - French-born English portrait miniature painter (d. 1617)
* Reza Abbasi - Persian miniaturist, painter and calligrapher of the Isfahan School (d. 1635)
* Achille Calici - Italian painter of the late Renaissance, and early Baroque (d. "unknown")
* Bernardino Cesari - Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early Baroque period (d. 1621)
* Cheng Jiasui - Chinese landscape painter and poet during the Ming Dynasty (d. 1643)

Deaths

* Garcia Fernandes - Portuguese Renaissance painter (b. "unknown")