1563 in art

Events

* The Medici court astronomer Fra Ignazio Danti paints 57 maps at the Palazzo Vecchio.

Paintings

* Pieter Brueghel the Elder paints "The Tower of Babel" - The Tower of Babel (Brueghel).
* Giuseppe Arcimboldo paints "The Four Seasons" series.
* De Heere paints a portrait of Mary Queen of Scots.
* At the Città della Pieve, in Umbria, Niccolò Circignani paints the "Concert" (in the Government Room).
* Giovanni Battista Moroni paints "The Count Pietro Secco Suardo".
* Paolo Veronese (1528-1588) completes "The Wedding at Cana" (1562-1563).
* A portrait diptych is painted of the Antwerp merchant Adriaan van Santvoort and his family.

Births

* Anton Moller, painter (d. 1611)
* Benedetto Gennari - Italian painter of the early-Baroque period (d. 1658)
* Orazio Gentileschi - Italian Baroque "Caravaggisti" painter (d. 1639)
* George Heriot - Scottish goldsmith, jeweler, and philanthropist (d. 1624)

Deaths

* Francesco de' Rossi - Italian Mannerist painter from Florence (b. 1510)
* Andrea Schiavone - Renaissance etcher and painter, active mainly in Venice (b. 1510/1515)
* Diego Siloe - Spanish Renaissance architect and sculptor (b. 1490)