1560 in art

Events from the year 1560 in art.

Events

• Giorgio Vasari begins work on the Uffizi in Florence for Cosimo I de' Medici as offices for the Florentine magistrates.

Works

• Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Children's Games
• Valerio Cioli - Fontana del Bacchino at the Boboli Gardens in Florence
• Juan de Juanes – The Last Supper
• Maso da San Friano – Visitation (altarpiece)
• Antonis Mor – Portrait of the artist Jan van Scorel
• Steven van der Meulen – '
• Karel van Mander – '

Births

• June 25 – Juan Sánchez Cotán, Spanish painter (died 1626)
• November 3 – Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (died 1609)
• date unknown
• Giovanni Balducci, also called Il Cosci, Italian mannerist painter (died 1600)
• Bartolomeo Carducci, Italian painter (died 1608)
• Wenceslas Cobergher, Flemish Renaissance architect, engineer, painter, antiquarian, numismatist and economist (died 1634)
• Adriaen Collaert, Flemish engraver (died 1618)
• Dominicus Custos, Flemish printer and copperplate engraver (died 1612)
• Bartholomeus Dolendo, Dutch engraver (died unknown)
• Giovanni Niccolo, Italian Jesuit painter (died 1626)
• Diego Polo the Elder, Spanish painter (died 1600)
• Claudio Ridolfi, Italian painter (died 1644)
• Daniel Soreau, German still life painter (died 1619)
• Antonio Viviani, Italian painter of frescoes (died 1620)
• probable
• Ludovico Buti, Italian painter active mostly in Florence (died 1611)
• Baldassare d'Anna, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period (died 1639)
• Paolo Camillo Landriani, Italian painter (died 1618)
• Arent Passer, stonemason and architect (died 1637)
• Marietta Robusti, Venetian painter of the Renaissance period (died 1590)
• Fabrizio Santafede, Italian late-Mannerist painter (died 1635)
• Domenico Tintoretto, Venetian painter, son of Jacopo Tintoretto (died 1635)
• 1560/1561: Rafael Sadeler I, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family (died 1628/1632)

Deaths

• February 7 – Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Florentine sculptor (born 1493)
• date unknown
• Antonio Badile, Italian painter from Verona (born 1518)
• Giovanni Battista Caporali, Italian painter (born c.1476)
• Francesco Vecellio, Venetian painter of the early Renaissance (born 1485), best known as the elder brother of the painter Titian.
• probable
• Hans Sebald Lautensack, German painter and etcher (born 1524)
• Herri met de Bles, Flemish Mannerist landscape painter (born c.1510)
• Frans Mostaert, Flemish landscape painter (born 1428)
• Heinrich Zell, German printer and cartographer (born unknown)

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