1553 in art

Events

• Maarten van Heemskerck becomes curate of St. Bavochurch, where he serves 22 years
• After Bonifazio Veronese dies, Palma il Giovane takes over his workshop and clientele

Paintings

• Giovanni Battista Moroni - Portrait of a Man
• Titian - Venus and Adonis
• Paolo Veronese - ''Temptation of St Anthony''

Births

• date unknown
• *Cherubino Alberti or Borghegiano, Italian engraver and painter
• *Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont, Spanish soldier, painter, musician and inventor
• *Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Spanish painter
• *Niccolò Granello, Italian fresco painter established in Spain
• *Hieronymus Wierix, Flemish engraver

Deaths

• February - Augustin Hirschvogel, German artist, mathematician, and cartographer known primarily for his etchings
• May 22 - Giovanni Bernardi, Italian gem engraver and medalist
• June 3 - Wolf Huber, Austrian painter, printmaker, and architect, a leading member of the Danube School
• October 16 - Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving
• October 19 - Bonifazio Veronese, Italian Mannerist painter from Venice
• date unknown
• *Giorgio Andreoli, Italian potter of the Italian Renaissance, inventor of a particular kind of lusterware
• *Cornelis Anthonisz., Dutch painter, engraver and mapmaker
• *Adriaen Pietersz Crabeth, Dutch glass painter
• *Francesco Signorelli - Italian Renaissance painter
• probable - Domenico Alfani, Italian painter