1561 in art

Events

• Sculptors Bernhard and Arnold Abel are recorded as working at the Imperial Court in Vienna.
• Juan Bautista Vázquez the Elder moves to Seville to complete an altarpiece, and remains there to work.
• Michelangelo ceases work on the Pietà Firenze.

Works

• Alessandro Allori – Portrait of a Young Man
• Jacopo Bassano – The Journey of Jacob
• Titian – Mary Magdalene
• Paolo Veronese – ''Muse with a Lyre''

Births

• date unknown
• *Cornelis Danckerts de Ry, Dutch architect and sculptor
• *Johann Theodor de Bry, Flemish painter and engraver
• *Zacharias Dolendo, Dutch engraver
• *Antonio Mohedano, Spanish painter of the Renaissance period
• *Tobias Verhaecht, landscape painter and draughtsman in Italy and Antwerp
• probable
• *Jan Collaert II, Flemish engraver and printmaker
• *Toussaint Dubreuil, French painter
• *Léonard Gaultier, French engraver
• *Adam van Noort, Flemish painter and draughtsman
• *Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Artist of the Tudor court, portraitist

Deaths

• January 9- Luca Martini, Italian arts patron
• March 4 - Lancelot Blondeel, Bruges-based Flemish painter
• November 8 - Ippolito Costa, Italian painter
• date unknown
• *Alonso Berruguete, Spanish painter, sculptor and architect
• *Simon Bening, miniature painter of the Ghent-Bruges school
• *Hans Bocksberger der Ältere, Austrian painter
• *Paul Dax, Austrian artist
• *Battista Franco Veneziano, Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker in etching
• probable
• *Erhard Altdorfer, German Early Renaissance printmaker, painter, and architect
• *Bernard Salomon, French painter, draftsman and engraver