1550 in art

Events

• Antonis Mor is commissioned by Mary of Hungary to travel around Portugal and paint portraits of the Portuguese branch of her family.
• Giorgio Vasari publishes Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori in Florence.

Paintings

• Sofonisba Anguissola – Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola
• Bronzino - PortraIt of a Young Man
• Lucas Cranach the Elder – Self-portrait at 77
• Frans Floris – Banquet of the Gods
• Maarten van Heemskerck – Adam and Eve/Gideon and the Fleece
• Dirck Jacobsz. – Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen Painting a Portrait of His Wife
• Jan Mandijn – The Temptation of St. Anthony
• Francesco de' Rossi – Portrait of a Young Man
• Titian – ''Venus and Musician''

Births

• April 18 - Alessandro Pieroni, Italian mannerist painter and architect
• date unknown
• *Cristoforo Augusta, Italian painter, pupil of Giovanni Battista Trotti
• *Matthijs Bril, landscape painter of frescoes who worked in Rome
• *Aert Pietersz, Dutch painter
• *Jan Sadeler I, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family
• probable
• *Piermaria Bagnadore, Italian painter and architect of the late-Renaissance period
• *Pier Angelo Basili, Italian painter born in Gubbio
• *Pieter Bast, Dutch cartographer, engraver and draftsman
• *Giovanni Paolo Cavagna, Italian painter, active mainly in Bergamo
• *Giovanni Battista Cremonini, Italian painter of primarily frescoes
• *Pedro de Bolduque, Spanish sculptor of Flemish origin
• *Wendel Dietterlin, German painter/architect, author of a treatise on the five orders entitled Architectura filled with Mannerist ornament
• *1548/1550: Palma il Giovane, Italian Mannerist painter from Venice
• *Marcin Kober, Polish court painter to King Stefan Batory
• *Giovanni Paolo Lolmo, Italian painter
• *Sampson Strong, Dutch-born portrait painter
• *Nicolas van Houy, Dutch Golden Age painter
• *Hendrik van Steenwijk I, Dutch painter, earliest-known painter of architectural interiors
• *Giovanni Vasanzio, Dutch-born architect, garden designer and engraver
• * Scarsellino, Italian painter, of the School of Ferrara
• *Hans van Steenwinckel the Elder, Flemish/Danish sculptor and architect
• *Đorđe Mitrofanović, Serbian portraitist, icon painter and muralist

Deaths

• September - Giovanni Maria Francesco Rondani, Italian painter of the Parmesan school
• September 7 - Niccolò Tribolo, Italian Mannerist artist
• 22 November - Sebald Beham, German printmaker, engraver, designer of woodcuts, painter and miniaturist
• October 11 - Georg Pencz, German engraver, painter and printmaker
• December 6 - Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish artist of paintings and tapestries
• date unknown
• *Antonio da Trento, Italian artist especially of woodcuts
• *Antonio Fantuzzi, Italian etcher
• *Gregório Lopes, Renaissance painter from Portugal
• *Girolamo Marchesi, Italian painter
• probable - Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da Imola, Italian painter and draftsman