1585 in art

Events

• March 3 – The Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, designed by Palladio and completed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is opened, with trompe-l'œil scenery in one-point perspective.
• The Eclectic Academy of painting, also called the Accademia degli Incamminati, is founded in Bologna by Ludovico Carracci and others.
• French cardinal Matthieu Cointrel dies, leaving an endowment and instructions for the decoration of the Contarelli Chapel in Rome.
• Persian miniature painter Farrukh Beg moves to the court of Mughal emperor Akbar in India and receives his title.
• Approximate date – Start of Flemish Baroque painting.

Works

• Pietro Francavilla – Saturn Devouring one of his Sons
• El Greco
• *St. Dominic in Prayer
• *The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception and St. John
• *Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata
• Nicholas Hilliard - Portrait miniature of Sir Walter Ralegh
• Taddeo Landini - Statue of Pope Sixtus V
• Paolo Veronese - Lucretia
• John White – Indian Village of Secoton
• * '' The Ermine Portrait''

Births

• January - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter
• May 17 - Esaias van de Velde, Dutch landscape painter
• June 28 - Sisto Badalocchio, Italian painter and engraver of the Bolognese School
• July 7 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English art collector
• August 25 - Giovanni Biliverti, Italian Mannerist painter
• date unknown
• *Arent Arentsz, Dutch painter
• *Sir Nathaniel Bacon, English landowner and painter of kitchen and market scenes with large vegetables, fruit, and buxom maids
• *Boetius à Bolswert, Dutch engraver
• *Isaac Briot, French engraver and draughtsman
• *Angelo Caroselli, Italian painter of the Baroque period
• *Huang Daozhou, Chinese calligrapher, scholar and official of the Ming Dynasty
• *Lan Ying, Chinese painter of landscapes, human figures, flowers and birds during the Ming Dynasty
• *John Taylor, English portrait painter
• *Jacob van Geel, Dutch Golden Age painter
• *Ottavio Vannini, Italian painter of altarpieces and churches, active mainly in Florence
• *Giuseppe Vermiglio, Caravaggisti painter from Northern Italy
• *Wen Zhenheng, Chinese Ming dynasty scholar, painter, and landscape garden designer

Deaths

• September 6 - Luca Cambiasi, Italian painter
• December 19 - Wenzel Jamnitzer, Northern Mannerist goldsmith, artist, and printmaker in etching
• date unknown
• *Giuseppe Marullo, Italian painter
• *Adamo Scultori, Italian engraver
• *Francisco de Holanda, Portuguese humanist and painter
• probable - Jacob de Backer, Flemish Mannerist painter and draughtsman