1565 in art

Events

• September - Titian goes to Cadore to design decorations for the church at Pieve, which will be partly executed by his pupils.
• Before December - Daniele da Volterra begins the work of overpainting nudity in the late Michelangelo's The Last Judgment (Sistine Chapel), earning himself the nickname Il Braghettone.

Works

Paintings

• Pieter Bruegel the Elder paints
• *the cycle of the seasons
• **The Hunters in the Snow in the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
• **The Gloomy Day in the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
• **The Hay Harvest in Nelahozeves.
• **The Harvesters in the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York.
• **The Return of the Herd in the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
• *Winter Landscape with Skaters and Bird Trap.
• *Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery.
• Lucas Cranach the Younger paints the Altarpiece of the Reformers in Dessau.
• Sebastiano Filippi paints Birth of the Virgin.
• Tintoretto begins painting the cycle of the life of Christ, including Crucifixion, in the Sala dell'Albergo at the Scuola di San Rocco in Venice.
• Titian paints
• *The Penitent Magdalene.
• *Venus Blindfolding Cupid at about this date.
• Giorgio Vasari paints the frescoes on the walls of the Palazzo Vecchio representing scenes of the Austrian Habsburg estates.
• Paolo Veronese paints the Allegory of Virtue and Vice and Wisdom and Strength in Venice, Italy.

Births

• May 15 - Hendrick de Keyser, Dutch sculptor and architect
• June 2 - Francisco Ribalta, Spanish painter, mostly of religious subjects
• date unknown
• *Bernardino Cesari, Italian painter
• *Camillo Mariani, Italian sculptor of the early Baroque
• *Konoe Nobutada, Momoyama period Japanese poet, calligrapher, painter and diarist
• *Isaac Oliver, French-born English portrait miniature painter
• *Jan Saenredam, Dutch engraver
• *Decio Termisani, Naples-born Italian painter
• probable
• *Reza Abbasi, Persian miniaturist, painter and calligrapher of the Isfahan School
• *Achille Calici, Italian painter
• *Cheng Jiasui, Chinese landscape painter and poet during the Ming Dynasty
• *Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch painter and engraver

Deaths

• date unknown
• *Antonio Begarelli, Italian sculptor
• *Antonio Bernieri, Italian painter, pupil of Correggio
• *Bernardino Licinio, Italian painter
• *Pietro Negroni, Italian painter
• *Paolo Pino, Italian painter and art writer
• *Joseph Weiß, Germain painter
• probable - Garcia Fernandes, Portuguese Renaissance painter