1552 in art explained

Events from the year 1552 in art.

Events

• date unknown – Spanish sculptor and architect Alonso Berruguete begins work on the hospital of St. John the Baptist in Toledo.^[1]

Paintings

• Christoph Amberger – Portrait of Sebastian Münster^[2]
• Bronzino – Portrait of the Dwarf Nano Morgante^[3]
• Dirck Jacobsz. – A Group of Guardsmen
• Hans Mielich – Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria and his wife Anna of Austria playing chess
• Tintoretto – The Vision of St. Peter
• Giorgio Vasari – Allegory of Patience

Other works

• Altarpiece of the Iglesia de San Juan Bautista (Chiclana de la Frontera) by Roque Balduque and Andrés Ramírez
• Pierino da Vinci – Samson Slaying a Philistine (sculpture - ca.)^[4]

Births

• August 24 (bapt.) – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (died 1614)^[5]
• September 21 – Barbara Longhi, Italian painter (died 1638)
• date unknown
  • Hans von Aachen, German Mannerist painter (died 1615)
  • Alessandro Casolano, Italian painter primarily working in Siena (died 1606)
  • Daniël van den Queborn, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1602)
  • Emanuel Sweert, Dutch painter (died 1612)
• probable
  • Avanzino Nucci, Italian painter (died 1629)
  • Cristoforo Roncalli, Italian painter (died 1626)

Deaths

• July 12 – Niccolò Soggi, Italian painter (born c.1480)
• date unknown
  • Amico Aspertini, early leader of the Bolognese School of painting (born c.1474)
  • Peter Dell the Elder, German sculptor (born 1490)
  • Lucas Cornelisz de Kock, Dutch painter at the Tudor court (born 1495)
  • Giovanni Antonio Lappoli, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1492)
  • Qiu Ying, Chinese painter who specialized in the gongbi brush technique (born 1494)
  • Wilhelm Stetter, German Renaissance painter (born 1487)

Notes and References

1. Book: Temples of Gold, Crowns of Silver: Reflections of Majesty in the Viceregal Americas.... 1991. The Museum. 978-0-916101-26-8. 137.
2. Book: Henning Bock. Masterworks of the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin: With a History of the Collection. 1986. Abrams. 978-0-8109-1438-4. 98.
3. Web site: Portrait of the dwarf Nano Morgantе (Back).
4. Web site: Samson Slaying a Philistine by PIERINO DA VINCI.
5. Book: Delia Gaze. Maja Mihajlovic. Leanda Shrimpton. Dictionary of Women Artists: Introductory surveys ; Artists, A-I. 1997. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-884964-21-3. 534.