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Events from the year 1566 in art.

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.
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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