1562 in art
Events from the year 1562 in art.
Events
- In Venice, sumptuary laws decree that all gondolas must be painted black to prevent lavish displays of wealth.
- Giorgio Vasari, who had begun work on the Uffizi in Florence in 1560, founds the Academy of Design.
- Paolo Veronese begins painting The Wedding at Cana.
- The Medici court astronomer Fra Ignazio Danti paints maps at the Palazzo Vecchio.
- Tintoretto begins the three paintings of the miracles of St. Mark for the Scuola di San Marco.
- Flemish artist Hieronymus Cock and Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez produce the map Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio.
Paintings
- Pieter Brueghel the Elder paints The Triumph of Death and Dull Gret, both strongly influenced by the style of Hieronymus Bosch.
- Frans Floris paints The Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, Son of God, Gathering and Protecting Mankind .
- Lattanzio Gambara paints frescos.
- Titian paints The Death of Actaeon and The Rape of Europa.
- Ludger Tom Ring the Younger paints a pair of upright pictures of iris and lilies.
Births
- May 6 - Pietro Bernini, Italian sculptor and father of the more famous Gianlorenzo Bernini date unknown
- *Fabrizio Castello, Italian painter of Genoese origin settled in Spain
- *Jerónimo Rodriguez de Espinosa, Spanish painter of the Renaissance period
- *Pietro Faccini, Italian painter in styles bridging Mannerism and the nascent Baroque
- *Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch painter and draughtsman, was one of the leading Mannerist artists in The Netherlands
- *Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, Dutch painter, father of reverse-named painter Cornelis Hendriksz Vroom
Deaths
- August 1 - Virgil Solis, German draughtsman and printmaker in engraving, etching and woodcut
- November 11 - Francesco de' Rossi, Florentine Mannerist painter
- December 6 - Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter credited with the introduction of High Italian Renaissance art to the Netherlands
- date unknown
- *Francesco del Prato, Italian still-life painter and goldsmith
- *Jean Duvet, French Renaissance goldsmith and engraver
- *Francesco Torbido, Italian painter