1552 in art
Events from the year 1552 in art.
Events
- date unknown – Spanish sculptor and architect Alonso Berruguete begins work on the hospital of St. John the Baptist in Toledo.
Paintings
- Christoph Amberger – Portrait of Sebastian Münster
- Bronzino – Portrait of the Dwarf Nano Morgante
- Dirck Jacobsz. – A Group of Guardsmen
- Hans Mielich – Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria and his wife Anna of Austria playing chess
- Tintoretto – The Vision of St. Peter
- Giorgio Vasari – ''Allegory of Patience''
Other works
- Altarpiece of the Iglesia de San Juan Bautista (Chiclana de la Frontera) by Roque Balduque and Andrés Ramírez
- Pierino da Vinci – ''Samson Slaying a Philistine''
Births
- August 24 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter
- September 21 – Barbara Longhi, Italian painter
- date unknown
- *Hans von Aachen, German Mannerist painter
- *Alessandro Casolano, Italian painter primarily working in Siena
- *Daniël van den Queborn, Dutch Golden Age painter
- *Emanuel Sweert, Dutch painter
- probable
- *Avanzino Nucci, Italian painter
- *Cristoforo Roncalli, Italian painter
Deaths
- July 12 – Niccolò Soggi, Italian painter
- date unknown
- *Amico Aspertini, early leader of the Bolognese School of painting
- *Peter Dell the Elder, German sculptor
- *Lucas Cornelisz de Kock, Dutch painter at the Tudor court
- *Giovanni Antonio Lappoli, Italian Mannerist painter
- *Qiu Ying, Chinese painter who specialized in the gongbi brush technique
- *Wilhelm Stetter, German Renaissance painter