1566 in art

Events from the year 1566 in art.

Events

• August 10 - Beeldenstorm: At the end of a pilgrimage from Hondschoote to Steenvoorde, the chapel of the Sint-Laurensklooster is defaced by a crowd. It is the start of a period of several weeks of violent iconoclasm in which paintings and church decorations and fittings are destroyed throughout the Low Countries.
• Pieter Bruegel the Elder begins painting The Massacre of the Innocents (1566-1567).
• Giuseppe Arcimboldo returns to the Italian city-states.
• An epitaph to Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen, designed by Sigmund Linger, is erected in the St. Giles Chapel of the St. John's Church in Schleusingen.

Paintings

• Giuseppe Arcimboldo
• The Jurist
• The Librarian (approximate date)
• Water or Fish (The Four Elements; Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
• Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Census at Bethlehem
• Antoine Caron - The Massacres of the Triumvirate
• Hans Eworth - '
• Paolo Veronese - altarpiece of Jesus' baptism, at the cathedral of Lignano Sabbiadoro