Events from the year 1566 in art.
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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.[1]
- 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 - Nicholas Heath, Archbishop of York
- Paolo Veronese - altarpiece of Jesus' baptism, at the cathedral of Lignano Sabbiadoro
Births
- January 15 - Philipp Uffenbach, German painter and etcher (died 1636)
- date unknown
- Giovanni Baglione, Italian early baroque painter and historian of art (died 1643)
- Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch painter and printmaker (died 1651)
- Domenico Carpinoni, Italian painter of primarily religious works (died 1658)
- Johann Matthias Kager, German painter (died 1634)
- Santo Peranda, a historical painter of Venice (died 1638)
- Joachim Wtewael, Dutch painter and engraver (died 1638)
Deaths
- April 4 - Daniele da Volterra, Italian mannerist painter and sculptor (born c.1509)
- April 16 - Juan Correa de Vivar, Spanish Renaissance (Renacimiento) painter (born c.1510)
- August - Lambert Lombard, Flemish Renaissance painter, architect and theorist for the Prince-Bishopric of Liège (born 1505)
- August 4 - Girolamo della Robbia, Italian ceramicist (born 1488)
- date unknown
- Ahmed Karahisari, Ottoman calligrapher (born 1468)
- probable
- Niccolò Boldrini, Italian engraver (born c.1500)
- Girolamo Romanino, Italian painter (born c.1485)
- Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Flemish Northern Renaissance painter (born c.1500)
References
- ^ Arnade, Peter J., Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots: the Political Culture of the Dutch Revolt, Cornell University Press, 2008, ISBN 0-8014-7496-5, ISBN 978-0-8014-7496-5, 103-104
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