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1563 in art
Events from the year
1563 in art
.
Events
January 13
â The
Accademia e Compagnia delle Arti del Disegno
("Academy and company of the arts of drawing") is established in
Florence
by
Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
, under the influence of
Giorgio Vasari
.
December 4
â The
Council of Trent
issues a decree on the proper function of
Roman Catholic art
.
date unknown
- The
Medici
court
astronomer
Fra
Ignazio Danti
paints 57 maps at the
Palazzo Vecchio
in Florence.
Paintings
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
paints his first
The Four Seasons
series.
Pieter Brueghel the Elder
paints
Adoration of the Magi in a Winter Landscape
,
' and
The Tower of Babel
.
Niccolò Circignani
paints the
Concert
in the Government Room of the
CittÃÂ della Pieve
in
Umbria
.
Lucas de Heere
paints a portrait of
Mary, Queen of Scots
.
Giovanni Battista Moroni
paints
The Count Pietro Secco Suardo
.
Francesco Primaticcio
paints '.
Bernaert de Rijckere
paints a portrait
diptych
of
Antwerp
merchant Adriaan van Santvoort and his family.
Paolo Veronese
completes painting
The Wedding at Cana
(
1562
-1563).
Births
June 4
-
George Heriot
,
Scottish
goldsmith
,
jeweler
and
philanthropist
(died
1624
)
date unknown
Grazio Cossali
,
Italian
painter (died
1629
)
Ercole dell'Abate
, Italian painter (died
1618
)
Benedetto Gennari
, Italian painter of the early-
Baroque
period (died
1610
)
Orazio Gentileschi
, Italian
Baroque
Caravaggisti
painter (died
1639
)
Anton Möller
, Polish painter (died
1611
)
Heo Nanseolheon
, Korean poet and painter (died
1589
)
Francesco Vanni
, Italian mannerist painter (died
1610
)
Deaths
October 22
-
Diego Siloe
,
Spanish
Renaissance architect
and
sculptor
(born c.
1495
)
date unknown
-
Andrea Schiavone
,
Venetian
Renaissance
etcher
and painter (born 1510/1515)
References