1568 in art

Events from the year 1568 in art.

Events

• A new, enlarged edition of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects is published, including a new section on Leonardo da Vinci.

Works

Paintings

• Pieter Bruegel the Elder
• The Blind Leading the Blind
• The Peasant Wedding
• The Tower of Babel
• El Greco – The Last Supper
• Gian Paolo Lomazzo – Self-portrait

Births

• January 20 - Ventura Salimbeni, Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker (died 1613)
• March 16 - Juan Martínez Montañés, also known as el Dios de la Madera, Spanish sculptor (died 1649)
• May 9 - Guglielmo Caccia called il Moncalvo, Italian painter who specialised in altar-pieces (died 1625)
• date unknown
• Alessandro Albini, Italian painter of the early Baroque period (died 1646)
• Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (died 1625)
• Giovanni Battista Calandra, Italian mosaic artist (died c.1644)
• Vincenzo Carducci, Italian painter (died 1638)
• Andrés de la Concha, Spanish painter (died unknown)
• Adam van Vianen, Dutch Golden Age medallist, engraver and silversmith (died 1627)
• probable
• Giuseppe Cesari, known as the Cavaliere d'Arpino, Italian painter (died 1640)

Deaths

• June 5 - Willem Key, Flemish painter (born 1515)
• date unknown
• Pierre Bontemps, French sculptor (born 1505)
• Battista del Moro, Italian painter of the Renaissance period active in his native Verona (born 1512)
• Lodovico Dolce, Italian art theorist (born 1508/1510)
• Lucas Gassel, Flemish painter (born 1490)
• Vincenzo Pagani, Italian painter (born 1490)
• Luis de Vargas, Spanish painter (born 1502)
• Wang Guxiang, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (born 1501)
• 1568/1569 - Jacob Binck, German engraver and painter (born between 1490-1504)

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