1583 in art

Events

• Italian Jesuit painter Giovanni Niccolo is sent to Portuguese Japan to found a painters' seminary.

Works

• Bartolomeo Passarotti – The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple
• Annibale Carracci – Crucifixion
• Lavinia Fontana – Newborn Baby in a Crib
• Joseph Heintz – Venus and Adonis
• Quentin Metsys the Younger – The Sieve Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I of England

Sculptures

• Giambologna – Venus After the Bath
• Germain Pilon – Effigies of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici in coronation dress

Births

• date unknown
• *Alessandro Bardelli, Italian painter
• *Paolo Biancucci, Italian painter primarily of religious scenes
• *Antonio Carracci, Italian painter
• *Nicolaes de Giselaer, Dutch painter and draughtsman
• *Pieter Lastman, Dutch painter
• *Juan de Mesa, Spanish sculptor
• *Astolfo Petrazzi, Italian painter, active mainly in his native Siena
• *Giovanni Valesio, Italian painter and engraver from Bologna
• *Hendrik van der Borcht the elder, engraver
• probable
• *Hendrik Goudt, Dutch painter
• *Jan Porcellis, Dutch marine artist
• *Jan Pynas, Dutch Baroque painter

Deaths

• March 24 - Hubert Goltzius, Dutch painter, engraver and printer
• June 8 - Matthijs Bril, landscape fresco painter who worked in Rome
• October 30 – Pirro Ligorio, Italian architect, painter, antiquarian and garden designer
• December 23 – Nicolás Factor, Spanish painter
• date unknown
• *Orazio Alfani, Italian painter
• *Lorenzo Costa the Younger, Italian painter
• *Wen Jia, Chinese painter of landscapes and flowers
• *Marco Pino, Italian painter of the Renaissance and Mannerist period
• *Martino Rota, engraver and printmaker
• probable
• *Jean Court, enamel painter
• *Melchior Lorck, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker of Danish-German origin