1556 in art
Events from the year 1556 in art.
Works
- Sofonisba Anguissola – Self-portrait at the easel
- Jan Sanders van Hemessen – The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant
- Paolo Veronese - ''Jupiter Hurling Thinderbolts at the Vices''
Births
- August 16 - Bartolomeo Cesi, Italian painter of the Bolognese School
- October 24 - Giovanni Battista Caccini, Italian sculptor
- date unknown
- *Giovanni Bizzelli, Italian painter
- *Aurelio Lomi, Italian painter of frescoes
- *Carlo Maderno, Italian sculptor
- *Alessandro Maganza, Italian Mannerist painter
- *Pietro Malombra, Italian painter
- *Lazzaro Tavarone, Genoese painter
- probable
- *Adrien de Vries, late Mannerist sculptor born in the Netherlands
- *Otto van Veen, painter, draughtsman, and humanist
Deaths
- April - Cristofano Gherardi, Italian Mannerist painter
- August 1 - Girolamo da Carpi, court painter and decorator to the Duke d'Este
- date unknown
- *Luca Penni, Italian painter, member of the School of Fontainebleau
- *Girolamo da Santa Croce, Italian Renaissance painter
- probable – Jan Mostaert, Haarlem painter