1577 in art

Events

• El Greco moves from Rome to Spain, where he will spend the rest of his life.
• The Accademia di San Luca is founded as an association of artists in Rome.

Works

• Lavinia Fontana - Self-Portrait at the Clavichord Accompanied by a Handmaiden
• El Greco - The Repentant Magdalen
• Nicholas Hilliard - Portrait miniatures
• *The Duke of Alençon
• *Marguerite of Navarre
• *Self-portrait
• Cornelis Ketel - ''Martin Frobisher''

Births

• March 20 - Alessandro Tiarini, Italian Baroque painter of frescoes, façade decorations, and altarpieces
• June 28 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter
• July 21 - Adam Willaerts, Dutch painter
• October 17 - Cristofano Allori, Italian painter
• December 8 - Mario Minniti, Italian painter, also the model for Caravaggio's painting Boy with a Basket of Fruit
• date unknown
• *Eugenio Caxés, Spanish painter
• *Giacomo Cavedone, Italian painter of the Bolognese School
• *Giovanni Battista Crescenzi, Italian painter and architect
• *Aart Jansz Druyvesteyn, Dutch Golden Age painter
• *Cornelis van der Geest, Dutch merchant and art collector

Deaths

• February 17 - Giuliano Bugiardini, Italian painter
• May - Richard Aertsz, Dutch historical painter
• June 12 - Orazio Samacchini, Italian Mannerist painter
• date unknown
• *Juan de Juni, French–Spanish sculptor
• *Léonard Limousin, French painter, member of Limoges enamel painter family
• *Guglielmo della Porta, Italian architect and sculptor
• *Antonis Mor, Dutch portrait painter
• *Cristóbal Ramírez, painter and illuminator of manuscripts for King Philip II of Spain
• *Lorenzo Sabbatini, Italian painter
• *Michele Tosini, Italian Mannerist painter
• probable - Gert van Groningen, Danish sculptor