1558 in art

Events

• Benvenuto Cellini begins writing his influential autobiography, focusing not only on his life but on his goldsmith's art, sculpture, and design.
• Juan Bautista Vázquez the Elder returns to Avila to complete the altarpiece at the Monastery of Santa Maria de las Cuevas, left unfinished by Isidro de Villoldo.

Paintings

• Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
• Pierre Reymond – Tazza: Scene from the Book of Proverbs
• Domenico Campagnola – Callisto's Transformation into a Bear after Giving Birth to Arcas
• Tintoretto – Saint George and the Dragon
• Titian - Crucifixion
• Paolo Veronese – ''Assumption of the Virgin''

Births

• January Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and painter
• December 3 - Gregorio Pagani, Italian painter active mainly in Florence
• date unknown
• *Giovanni Alberti, Italian painter
• *Baldassare Croce, Italian academic painter and director of the Accademia di San Luca
• *Honami Kōetsu, Japanese craftsman, founder of the Rinpa school
• *Dirk Pietersz, Dutch Golden Age painter
• *Juan de las Roelas, Seville-based painter
• *Gregorius Sickinger, Swiss painter, draughtsman, and engraver
• *Jan de Wael I, Flemish painter of the Baroque period
• probable
• *Belisario Corenzio, Italian Mannerist painter
• *Chen Jiru, Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher during the Ming Dynasty

Deaths

• January 24 - Gerlach Flicke, German limner and portrait painter working in London
• August 15 - Paul Lautensack, Germain painter and musician
• date unknown - Scipione Sacco, Italian painter of the Renaissance active in Cesena
• probable
• *: Giovanni Francesco Caroto, Italian painter active in Verona
• *: Benedetto Montagna, Italian engraver