1559 in art
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Events from the year 1559 in art.
Events
- Francesco Primaticcio and his assistants complete painting the Salle d'Hercule at the Palace of Fontainebleau (begun in the 1530s).
- Sidsel Ulfstand and others complete the tapestry in the great hall of the Danish royal palace.
Works
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- Luca Cambiaso – Resurrected Christ
- Titian
Births
- January 26 - Francesco Bassano the Younger, painter (died 1592)
- September 12 - Cigoli, Italian painter and architect of the late Mannerist period (died 1613)
- date unknown
- Francesco Cavazzoni, Italian painter and art historian (died 1612)
- Orazio Farinati, Italian Mannerist painter (died 1616)
- Domenico Passignano, Italian painter of a late-Renaissance or Counter-Maniera (Counter-Mannerism) style (died 1636)
- Kanō Sanraku, Japanese painter (died 1635)
- probable
- Jan Vermeyen, Dutch goldsmith of the Renaissance Mannerism (died 1606)
Deaths
- September 6 - Benvenuto Tisi (Il Garofalo), late-RenaissanceMannerist Italian painter of the School of Ferrara (born 1481)
- November 5 - Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter (born 1476)
- date unknown
- Giovanni da Nola, Italian sculptor and architect (born 1478)
- Nicolas Denisot, French Renaissance poet and painter (born 1515)
- Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, Dutch Northern Renaissance painter (born 1500)
- Wen Zhengming, Ming Dynasty painter, calligrapher, and scholar (born 1470)
- probable - Juste de Juste, Franco-Italian sculptor and printmaker in etching (born 1505)