1568 in art

Events

• A new, enlarged edition of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects is published, including a new section on Leonardo da Vinci.

Works

Paintings

• Pieter Bruegel the Elder
• * The Blind Leading the Blind
• * The Peasant Wedding
• * The Tower of Babel
• El Greco – The Last Supper
• Gian Paolo Lomazzo – Self-portrait

Births

• January 20 - Ventura Salimbeni, Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker
• March 16 - Juan Martínez Montañés, also known as el Dios de la Madera, Spanish sculptor
• May 9 - Guglielmo Caccia called il Moncalvo, Italian painter who specialised in altar-pieces
• date unknown
• *Alessandro Albini, Italian painter of the early Baroque period
• *Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter
• *Giovanni Battista Calandra, Italian mosaic artist
• *Vincenzo Carducci, Italian painter
• *Andrés de la Concha, Spanish painter
• *Adam van Vianen, Dutch Golden Age medallist, engraver and silversmith
• probable
• *Giuseppe Cesari, known as the Cavaliere d'Arpino, Italian painter

Deaths

• June 5 - Willem Key, Flemish painter
• date unknown
• *Pierre Bontemps, French sculptor
• *Battista del Moro, Italian painter of the Renaissance period active in his native Verona
• *Lodovico Dolce, Italian art theorist
• *Lucas Gassel, Flemish painter
• *Vincenzo Pagani, Italian painter
• *Luis de Vargas, Spanish painter
• *Wang Guxiang, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty
• *1568/1569 - Jacob Binck, German engraver and painter