1581 in art

Events from the year 1581 in art.

Events

• September 19 – Arnold Bronckhorst is appointed first court painter to James VI of Scotland.
• Construction of the Uffizi in Florence as magistrates' offices, designed by Giorgio Vasari and continued by Alfonso Parigi the Elder and Bernardo Buontalenti, is completed.

Works

• Anonymous – (approximate date)
• Antonio Campi – The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence (San Paolo Converso, Milan)
• Lavinia Fontana
• Deposition
• Noli me tangere
• Nicholas Hilliard –

Births

• October 21 – Domenico Zampieri, Baroque Italian painter (died 1641)
• December 27 - Jean Chalette, French miniature and portrait painter (died 1643)
• date unknown
• Johan Bara, Dutch painter, designer and engraver (died 1634)
• Frans Francken the Younger, Flemish painter (died 1642)
• Cornelis Liefrinck, Dutch painter (died 1652)
• Abraham Matthijs, Flemish Baroque painter (died 1649)
• Fillide Melandroni, Italian courtesan, model for Caravaggio (died 1618)
• Panfilo Nuvolone, Italian Mannerist painter (died 1651)
• Carlo Sellitto, Italian Caravaggisti painter (died 1614)
• Artus Wolffort, Flemish painter (died 1641)
• probable
• Bernardo Strozzi, Italian painter (died 1644)

Deaths

• September 19 - Frans Pourbus the Elder, Flemish Renaissance painter primarily of religious and portraits (born 1545)
• date unknown
• Girolamo Comi, Italian Renaissance painter (born 1507)

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