1559 in art
Events from the year 1559 in art.
Events
- Francesco Primaticcio and his assistants complete painting the Salle d'Hercule at the Palace of Fontainebleau.
- Sidsel Ulfstand and others complete the tapestry in the great hall of the Danish royal palace.
Works
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- *The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
- *Netherlandish Proverbs
- Luca Cambiaso – Resurrected Christ
- Titian
- *The Entombment
- *''St Margaret and the Dragon''
Births
- January 26 - Francesco Bassano the Younger, painter
- September 12 - Cigoli, Italian painter and architect of the late Mannerist period
- date unknown
- *Francesco Cavazzoni, Italian painter and art historian
- *Orazio Farinati, Italian Mannerist painter
- *Domenico Passignano, Italian painter of a late-Renaissance or Counter-Maniera style
- *Kanō Sanraku, Japanese painter
- probable
- *Jan Vermeyen, Dutch goldsmith of the Renaissance Mannerism
Deaths
- September 6 - Benvenuto Tisi, late-RenaissanceMannerist Italian painter of the School of Ferrara
- November 5 - Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter
- date unknown
- *Giovanni da Nola, Italian sculptor and architect
- *Nicolas Denisot, French Renaissance poet and painter
- *Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, Dutch Northern Renaissance painter
- *Wen Zhengming, Ming Dynasty painter, calligrapher, and scholar
- probable - Juste de Juste, Franco-Italian sculptor and printmaker in etching