1555 in art

Events

• Villa Giulia is completed, which now houses the National Etruscan Museum's collection of Etruscan civilization art and artifacts

Paintings

• Sofonisba Anguissola - Lucia, Minerva and Europa Anguissola Playing Chess
• Cristofano Gherardi - Transfiguration
• c. 1555 – Titian
• * Venus with a Mirror
• * Venus and Musician
• c.1555 - Paolo Veronese - Venus Disarming Cupid
• c. 1555-1560 – Illuminated tughra of Sultan Suleiman, from Istanbul, Turkey

Births

• April 21 – Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter
• date unknown
• *Carlo Antonio Procaccini, Italian painter of still lifes and landscapes
• *Dong Qichang, Chinese painter, scholar, calligrapher, and art theorist of the later period of the Ming dynasty
• *Aegidius Sadeler I, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family
• *Antonio Tempesta, Florentine painter and engraver, worked in Rome, influenced by Counter-Mannerism
• *Giovanni Battista Trotti, Italian painter active mainly in his native city of Cremona
• probable
• *Jacob de Backer, Flemish Mannerist painter and draughtsman

Deaths

• July 2 - Girolamo dai Libri, Italian illuminator of manuscripts and painter of altarpieces
• date unknown
• *Giovanni Antonio Amato, Italian painter
• *Barthel Bruyn the Elder, German painter
• *Niccolò Giolfino, Italian painter
• *Gerolamo Giovenone, Italian painter
• probable
• *: Giovanni Francesco Caroto, Italian painter active in Verona
• *: Benedetto Montagna, Italian engraver
• *: Heinrich Aldegrever, German painter and engraver
• *Herri met de Bles, Flemish Northern Renaissance and Mannerist landscape painter
• *Jan Mostaert, Dutch painter of portraits and religious subjects
• *Mir Musavvir, Persian illustrator and painter