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1553 in art

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Events from the year 1553 in art.

Events

  • Maarten van Heemskerck becomes curate of St. Bavochurch, where he serves 22 years
  • After Bonifazio Veronese dies, Palma il Giovane takes over his workshop and clientele

Paintings

  • Giovanni Battista Moroni - Portrait of a Man
  • Titian - Venus and Adonis
  • Paolo Veronese - Temptation of St Anthony (altarpiece created for Mantua Cathedral taken from Italy by Napoleon now in Caen, France - begun in 1552, completed in 1553)

Births

  • date unknown
    • Cherubino Alberti or Borghegiano, Italian engraver and painter (died 1615)
    • Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont, Spanish soldier, painter, musician and inventor (died 1613)
    • Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Spanish painter (died 1608)
    • Niccolò Granello, Italian fresco painter established in Spain (died 1593)
    • Hieronymus Wierix, Flemish engraver (died 1619)

Deaths

  • February - Augustin Hirschvogel, German artist, mathematician, and cartographer known primarily for his etchings (born 1503)
  • May 22 - Giovanni Bernardi, Italian gem engraver and medalist (born 1494)
  • June 3 - Wolf Huber, Austrian painter, printmaker, and architect, a leading member of the Danube School (born 1485)
  • October 16 - Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving (born 1472)
  • October 19 - Bonifazio Veronese, Italian Mannerist painter from Venice (born 1487)
  • date unknown
    • Giorgio Andreoli, Italian potter of the Italian Renaissance, inventor of a particular kind of lusterware (lustro) (born 1465/1470)
    • Cornelis Anthonisz., Dutch painter, engraver and mapmaker (born 1505)
    • Adriaen Pietersz Crabeth, Dutch glass painter (born 1510)
    • Francesco Signorelli - Italian Renaissance painter (born 1495)
  • probable - Domenico Alfani, Italian painter (born 1480)
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