1564 in art

Events

• February 18 – Michelangelo dies aged 88 in Rome leaving the Rondanini Pietà unfinished.

Paintings

• Pieter Bruegel the Elder
• *The Adoration of the Kings
• *''The Procession to Calvary''

Births

• June 11 - Joseph Heintz the Elder, Swiss painter, draftsman and architect
• September 13 - Vincenzo Giustiniani, art collector, patron of Caravaggio
• November - Francisco Pacheco, Spanish painter and writer on painting
• date unknown
• *Zeng Jing, Chinese painter during the Ming Dynasty
• *Bartolomé González y Serrano, Spanish Baroque portrait painter
• *Hans Rottenhammer, German painter
• probable
• *Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Flemish Renaissance painter
• *Crispijn van de Passe the Elder, Dutch publisher and engraver

Deaths

• February 18 – Michelangelo, Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet
• date unknown
• *Domenico Campagnola, Italian painter and engraver of the Renaissance period ; he was a pupil of his father, the painter Giulio Campagnola.
• *Cesare da Bagno, Italian sculptor and medallist
• *Jakob Woller, German sculptor