Events from the year 1578 in art.
Events
Works
Births
- March 17 â Francesco Albani, Italian painter (died 1660)
- August 10 â Matteo Rosselli, Italian painter of historical paintings in the late Florentine and early Baroque (died 1650)
- October 12 â Baldassare Aloisi, Italian portrait painter and engraver (died 1638)
- date unknown
- Jan Baptist Barbé, Flemish engraver (died 1649)
- Battistello Caracciolo, Italian painter (died 1635)
- Agostino Ciampelli, Italian fresco painter (died 1640)
- Adam Elsheimer, German "cabinet" painter (died 1610)
- Fede Galizia, Italian still life painter (died 1630)
- Ottavio Leoni, Italian painter and printmaker (died 1630)
- Francisco Lopez Caro, Spanish painter (died 1662)
- Bartolomeo Schedoni, Italian painter (died 1615)
- Jean Toutin, French enamel worker, one of the first artists to make enamel portrait miniatures (died 1644)
- Alessandro Turchi, Italian painter (died 1649)
- Hieronymus Francken II, Flemish painter (d. unknown)
- Francesco Stringa, Italian court painter for Duke Ranuccio I Farnese (died 1615)
- probable
- Guy François, French painter (died 1650)
- Iwasa Matabei, Japanese painter (died 1650)
- Pieter Neeffs I, Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in architectural interiors of churches (died 1656)
- Gerrit van Bloclant, Dutch Renaissance painter (died 1650)
Deaths
- January 5 â Giulio Clovio, Croatian illustrator and miniaturist (born 1498)
- February 5 â Giovanni Battista Moroni, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1520/1524)
- March 17 - Cornelis Cort, Dutch engraver and draughtsman (born 1533)
- August 28 - Giovanni Battista Zelotti, Italian painter (born 1526)
- October 13 - Jean Bullant, French sculptor and architect (born 1515)
- Date unknown
- Pierre Lamo, Italian history painter
- Bernardino Lanini, Italian Renaissance painter active mainly in Milan (born 1511) (probable date)
- Benedetto Pagni, Italian painter
- Qian Gu, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (born c.1508) (approximate date)
- Raffaellino da Reggio, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1550)
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