1576 in art

Works

• Lavinia Fontana - Christ with the Symbols of the Passion
• Wen Jia – ''Landscape in the Spirit of the Verses of Du Fu''

Births

• June 16 - Giovanni Battista Viola, Italian painter of landscape canvases
• August - David Vinckboons, Dutch painter of Flemish origin
• September 1 - Scipione Borghese, Italian art collector
• date unknown
• *Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor
• *Roelant Savery, Flanders-born Dutch baroque painter of the Golden Age
• *Gregorio Fernández, Spanish sculptor Castilian school of sculpture
• *Francisco Herrera the Elder, Spanish painter and founder of the Seville school for the arts
• *Giovanni Battista Billoni, Italian painter born in Padua
• *Leonello Spada, Italian Caravaggisti specializing in decorative quadratura painting
• probable
• *Cornelis Boel, Flemish draughtsman and engraver
• *Pietro Paolo Bonzi, Italian painter, best known for his landscapes and still-lifes
• *Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen, Dutch Golden Age painter

Deaths

• February 22 - Bernardino Gatti, Italian painter
• May 26 - Vincenzo Danti, Italian sculptor
• August 27 – Titian, leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance
• November 27 - Santi Buglioni, Italian sculptor
• date unknown
• *Pieter Claeissens the Elder, Flemish painter
• *Aqa Mirak, Persian illustrator and painter
• *Lorenzo Sabbatini, Italian Mannerist painter
• *Levina Teerlinc, Flemish miniaturist who served as a painter to the English court
• *Lu Zhi, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty