1560 in art

Events

• Giorgio Vasari begins work on the Uffizi in Florence for Cosimo I de' Medici as offices for the Florentine magistrates.

Works

• Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Children's Games
• Valerio Cioli - Fontana del Bacchino at the Boboli Gardens in Florence
• Juan de Juanes – The Last Supper
• Maso da San Friano – Visitation
• Antonis Mor – Portrait of the artist Jan van Scorel
• Steven van der Meulen – Elizabeth Clinton
• Karel van Mander – ''Prince Christian of Denmark''

Births

• June 25 – Juan Sánchez Cotán, Spanish painter
• November 3 – Annibale Carracci, Italian painter
• date unknown
• *Giovanni Balducci, also called Il Cosci, Italian mannerist painter
• *Bartolomeo Carducci, Italian painter
• *Wenceslas Cobergher, Flemish Renaissance architect, engineer, painter, antiquarian, numismatist and economist
• *Adriaen Collaert, Flemish engraver
• *Dominicus Custos, Flemish printer and copperplate engraver
• *Bartholomeus Dolendo, Dutch engraver
• *Giovanni Niccolo, Italian Jesuit painter
• *Diego Polo the Elder, Spanish painter
• *Claudio Ridolfi, Italian painter
• *Daniel Soreau, German still life painter
• *Antonio Viviani, Italian painter of frescoes
• probable
• *Ludovico Buti, Italian painter active mostly in Florence
• *Baldassare d'Anna, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period
• *Paolo Camillo Landriani, Italian painter
• *Arent Passer, stonemason and architect
• *Marietta Robusti, Venetian painter of the Renaissance period
• *Fabrizio Santafede, Italian late-Mannerist painter
• *Domenico Tintoretto, Venetian painter, son of Jacopo Tintoretto
• *1560/1561: Rafael Sadeler I, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family

Deaths

• February 7 – Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Florentine sculptor
• date unknown
• *Antonio Badile, Italian painter from Verona
• *Giovanni Battista Caporali, Italian painter
• *Francesco Vecellio, Venetian painter of the early Renaissance, best known as the elder brother of the painter Titian.
• probable
• *Hans Sebald Lautensack, German painter and etcher
• *Herri met de Bles, Flemish Mannerist landscape painter
• *Frans Mostaert, Flemish landscape painter
• *Heinrich Zell, German printer and cartographer