1572 in art
Events from the year 1572 in art.
Works
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo – Summer
- Federico Barocci –
- Lucas de Heere – The Family of Henry VIII, an Allegory of the Tudor Succession
- Nicholas Hilliard - Portrait miniature and Pelican Portrait of Elizabeth I of England
- Paolo Veronese
- * Allegory of the Battle of Lepanto
- * ''Feast of St Gregory the Great''
Births
- date unknown
- *Jan Antonisz van Ravesteyn, painter of the Dutch court in The Hague
- *Fabrizio Boschi, Italian painter of the early-Baroque period, active in Florence
- *Barend van Someren, Dutch Golden Age painter
- probable
- *Giovanni Bernardino Azzolini or Mazzolini or Asoleni, Italian painter
Deaths
- March 5 - Giulio Campi, Italian painter and architect
- November 23 – Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian artist and poet
- December 22 - François Clouet, French Renaissance miniaturist and painter
- date unknown
- *Mir Sayyid Ali, Persian illustrator and painter
- *Mirabello Cavalori, Italian painter mainly active in Florence
- *Danese Cattaneo – Italian sculptor
- probable - Jean Goujon, French sculptor and architect during the French Renaissance