1564 in art

Events from the year 1564 in art.

Events

• February 18 – Michelangelo dies aged 88 in Rome leaving the Rondanini Pietàunfinished.

Paintings

• Pieter Bruegel the Elder
• The Adoration of the Kings
• The Procession to Calvary

Births

• June 11 - Joseph Heintz the Elder, Swiss painter, draftsman and architect (died 1609)
• September 13 - Vincenzo Giustiniani, art collector, patron of Caravaggio (died 1637)
• November - Francisco Pacheco, Spanish painter and writer on painting (died 1644)
• date unknown
• Zeng Jing, Chinese painter during the Ming Dynasty (died 1647)
• Bartolomé González y Serrano, Spanish Baroque portrait painter (died 1627)
• Hans Rottenhammer, German painter (died 1625)
• probable
• Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Flemish Renaissance painter (died 1636)
• Crispijn van de Passe the Elder, Dutch publisher and engraver (died 1637)

Deaths

• February 18 – Michelangelo, Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet (born 1475)
• date unknown
• Domenico Campagnola, Italian painter and engraver of the Renaissance period (born c.1500); he was a pupil of his father, the painter Giulio Campagnola.
• Cesare da Bagno, Italian sculptor and medallist (born 1530)
• Jakob Woller, German sculptor (born 1510)

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