1586 in art

Events

• Flemish refugee Adam van Noort is commissioned by the County of the City of Coventry to produce a painting of local heroine Lady Godiva.

Works

• Anonymous – Portrait of Sir Henry Unton
• Giuseppe Arcimboldo – An Allegory of Death
• Federico Barocci – Vocation of Saints Peter and Andrew
• Hieronimo Custodis – Edward Talbot
• El Greco – ''The Burial of the Count of Orgaz''

Births

• date unknown
• *Giovanni Stefano Marucelli, Italian painter and architect active mainly in Tuscany
• *Orazio Riminaldi, Italian Caravaggisti painter of the Baroque period
• *Tiberio Tinelli, Italian painter of portraits of aristocracy, merchants, and intellectuals in Venice
• * Luis Tristán, Spanish painter
• probable
• *Massimo Stanzione, Italian Caravaggisti Baroque painter of frescoes
• *Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect

Deaths

• January 25 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter and wood-engraver
• May 9 - Luis de Morales, Spanish painter
• date unknown
• *Francesco Camilliani, Italian sculptor
• *Pedro Campaña, Flemish painter
• *Giovanni Battista Maganza, Italian religious painter
• *Matthias Zündt, German engraver