1551 in art

Births

• March 9 - Alessandro Alberti, Italian painter (died 1596)
• April 30 - Jacopo da Empoli, Italian Mannerist painter (died 1640)
• Luigi Benfatto, Italian painter, nephew of Paolo Veronese (died 1611)
• Jacopo Chimenti, Italian late-mannerist painter (died 1640)
• Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter, in 1571 a student in the Bolognese painters’ guild (died 1629)
• Tiburzio Vergelli, Italian sculptor and founder (died 1609)
• probable
• 1551/1552: John de Critz, Flemish portrait painter active in England (died 1642)

Deaths

• May 18 - Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter (born 1486)
• July - Adriaen Isenbrandt, Flemish Northern Renaissance painter (born 1480-1490)
• July 11 - Girolamo Genga, Italian painter and architect (born 1476)
• date unknown
• Diego de Arroyo, Spanish miniature painter (born 1498)
• Nicolas Chantereine, French sculptor and architect (born c.1485)
• Étienne Peson, French "primitive" painter (born 1485)
• Shin Saimdang, Korean genre works painter and calligraphist (born 1504)
• Juan de Villoldo, Spanish religious painter (date of birth unknown)

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