1565 in art
Events from the year 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