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Events from the year 1576 in art.

Events[edit]

Works[edit]

WenLandscape in the Spirit of the Verses of Du Fu, National Palace Museum
  • Lavinia Fontana - Christ with the Symbols of the Passion
  • Wen Jia – Landscape in the Spirit of the Verses of Du Fu

Births[edit]

  • June 16 - Giovanni Battista Viola, Italian painter of landscape canvases (died 1622)
  • August - David Vinckboons, Dutch painter of Flemish origin (died 1632)
  • September 1 - Scipione Borghese, Italian art collector (died 1633)
  • date unknown
    • Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (died 1646)
    • Roelant Savery, Flanders-born Dutch baroque painter of the Golden Age (died 1633)
    • Gregorio Fernández, Spanish sculptor Castilian school of sculpture (died 1636)
    • Francisco Herrera the Elder, Spanish painter and founder of the Seville school for the arts (died 1656)
    • Giovanni Battista Billoni, Italian painter born in Padua (died 1636)
    • Leonello Spada, Italian Caravaggisti specializing in decorative quadratura painting (died 1622)
  • probable
    • Cornelis Boel, Flemish draughtsman and engraver (died 1621)
    • Pietro Paolo Bonzi, Italian painter, best known for his landscapes and still-lifes (died 1636)
    • Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1633)

Deaths[edit]

  • February 22 - Bernardino Gatti, Italian painter (born c.1495)
  • May 26 - Vincenzo Danti, Italian sculptor (born 1530)
  • August 27 – Titian, leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance (born 1485)
  • November 27 - Santi Buglioni, Italian sculptor (born 1494)
  • date unknown
    • Pieter Claeissens the Elder, Flemish painter (born 1500)
    • Aqa Mirak, Persian illustrator and painter (born unknown)
    • Lorenzo Sabbatini, Italian Mannerist painter (born c.1530)
    • Levina Teerlinc, Flemish miniaturist who served as a painter to the English court (born 1510/1520)
    • Lu Zhi, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty (born c.1496)