1552 in art

Other works

• Altarpiece of the Iglesia de San Juan Bautista (Chiclana de la Frontera) by Roque Balduque and Andrés Ramírez
• Pierino da Vinci – Samson Slaying a Philistine (sculpture - ca.)

Births

• August 24 (bapt.) – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (died 1614)
• September 21 – Barbara Longhi, Italian painter (died 1638)
• date unknown
• Hans von Aachen, German Mannerist painter (died 1615)
• Alessandro Casolano, Italian painter primarily working in Siena (died 1606)
• Daniël van den Queborn, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1602)
• Emanuel Sweert, Dutch painter (died 1612)
• probable
• Avanzino Nucci, Italian painter (died 1629)
• Cristoforo Roncalli, Italian painter (died 1626)

Deaths

• July 12 – Niccolò Soggi, Italian painter (born c.1480)
• date unknown
• Amico Aspertini, early leader of the Bolognese School of painting (born c.1474)
• Peter Dell the Elder, German sculptor (born 1490)
• Lucas Cornelisz de Kock, Dutch painter at the Tudor court (born 1495)
• Giovanni Antonio Lappoli, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1492)
• Qiu Ying, Chinese painter who specialized in the gongbi brush technique (born 1494)
• Wilhelm Stetter, German Renaissance painter (born 1487)

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