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