1573 in art

Events

• July 18 - Paolo Veronese is called before the Roman Catholic Inquisition to answer the charge of including irreverent matter in the large canvas of the Last Supper he has just painted for the refectory of the Dominican basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice. He responds by retitling it The Feast in the House of Levi.

Works

• Giuseppe Arcimboldo – Four Seasons series
• Giambologna – Female Figure
• Johan Gregor van der Schardt – Self-portrait
• Paolo Veronese
• *Adoration of the Magi
• *The Feast in the House of Levi
• *''The Martyrdom of St. Justine''

Births

• January 18 - Ambrosius Bosschaert, Dutch painter
• May 18 - Odoardo Fialetti, Italian painter and printmaker
• date unknown
• *Giovanni Battista Crespi, Italian painter, sculptor, and architect
• *Jacob Hoefnagel, Flemish naturalist and artist
• *Hendrik Hondius, Dutch painter
• *Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli, Italian painter of frescoes and altarpieces
• *Tiberio di Tito, Italian painter of portraits, including small pencil portraits
• *Sebastian Vrancx, Flemish Baroque painter and etcher of the Antwerp school
• *Wu Bin, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty

Deaths

• probable - Cornelis van Dalem, Flemish painter