1555 in art
Events from the year 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