1575 in art

Events

• June - The bronze fauns on Bartolommeo Ammanati's Fountain of Neptune in Florence are completed.
• Approximate date - Lavinia Fontana begins her career in Bologna as the first female career artist in Western Europe.

Works

• Alessandro Allori - Christ and the Samaritan Woman
• Federico Barocci -
• Lavinia Fontana - Monkey Child
• Titian - Saint Jerome in Penitence
• Paolo Veronese - Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine
• Jacopo Zucchi – The Assembly of the Gods
• - The Darley Portrait
• * '' The Phoenix Portrait''

Births

• November 4 – Guido Reni, Italian painter
• date unknown
• *Hendrick van Balen, Flemish painter from Antwerp
• *Giovanni Andrea Donducci, Italian painter of the Bolognese School (painting)
• *Marcello Provenzale, Italian painter and mosaicist
• *Tommaso Salini, Italian painter of still life
• *Abraham van Blijenberch, Flemish painter
• probable
• *Jacques Bellange, French artist and printmaker from Lorraine
• *Orazio Borgianni, Italian painter and etcher of the Mannerist and early-baroque periods
• *Bartolomé de Cárdenas, Spanish painter
• *Domenico Falcini, Flemish Renaissance painter and engraver
• *Floris van Dyck, Dutch still life painter
• * Tanzio da Varallo, Italian painter of the late-Mannerist or early Baroque period
• * Gillis d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter who worked in a Flemish style
• * Abraham van der Doort, Dutch-born artist and curator

Deaths

• June 2 – Pieter Aertsen, Dutch painter
• October 8 - Jan Matsys, Flemish painter
• October 20 - Cornelis Floris de Vriendt, Flemish sculptor and architect
• November - Corneille de Lyon, Dutch painter
• December 29 - Giovanni Battista Scultori, Italian painter, sculptor and engraver
• date unknown
• *Wen Boren, Chinese landscape painter of the Ming Dynasty
• *Federico Brandani, Italian sculptor and stuccoist who worked in an urbane Mannerist style as a court artist
• *Lodovico Lombardo, Italian sculptor
• *Giuseppe Porta, Italian painter active mainly in Venice