1560 in art explained

Events from the year 1560 in art.

Events

• Giorgio Vasari begins work on the Uffizi in Florence for Cosimo I de' Medici as offices for the Florentine magistrates.^[1]

Works

• Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Children's Games^[2]
• Valerio Cioli - Fontana del Bacchino at the Boboli Gardens in Florence^[3]
• Juan de Juanes – The Last Supper
• Maso da San Friano – Visitation (altarpiece)
• Antonis Mor – Portrait of the artist Jan van Scorel
• Steven van der Meulen – Elizabeth Clinton
• Karel van Mander – Prince Christian of Denmark

Births

• June 25 – Juan Sánchez Cotán, Spanish painter (died 1626)^[4]
• November 3 – Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (died 1609)^[5]
• date unknown
  • Giovanni Balducci, also called Il Cosci, Italian mannerist painter (died 1600)
  • Bartolomeo Carducci, Italian painter (died 1608)^[6]
  • Wenceslas Cobergher, Flemish Renaissance architect, engineer, painter, antiquarian, numismatist and economist (died 1634)
  • Adriaen Collaert, Flemish engraver (died 1618)^[7]
  • Dominicus Custos, Flemish printer and copperplate engraver (died 1612)
  • Bartholomeus Dolendo, Dutch engraver (died unknown)
  • Giovanni Niccolo, Italian Jesuit painter (died 1626)
  • Diego Polo the Elder, Spanish painter (died 1600)
  • Claudio Ridolfi, Italian painter (died 1644)
  • Daniel Soreau, German still life painter (died 1619)
  • Antonio Viviani, Italian painter of frescoes (died 1620)
• probable
  • Ludovico Buti, Italian painter active mostly in Florence (died 1611)
  • Baldassare d'Anna, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period (died 1639)
  • Paolo Camillo Landriani, Italian painter (died 1618)
  • Arent Passer, stonemason and architect (died 1637)
  • Marietta Robusti, Venetian painter of the Renaissance period (died 1590)
  • Fabrizio Santafede, Italian late-Mannerist painter (died 1635)
  • Domenico Tintoretto, Venetian painter, son of Jacopo Tintoretto (died 1635)^[8]
  • 1560/1561: Rafael Sadeler I, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family (died 1628/1632)

Deaths

• February 7 – Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Florentine sculptor (born 1493)^[9]
• date unknown
  • Antonio Badile, Italian painter from Verona (born 1518)^[10]
  • Giovanni Battista Caporali, Italian painter (born c.1476)
  • Francesco Vecellio, Venetian painter of the early Renaissance (born 1485), best known as the elder brother of the painter Titian.
• probable
  • Hans Sebald Lautensack, German painter and etcher (born 1524)
  • Herri met de Bles, Flemish Mannerist landscape painter (born c.1510)
  • Frans Mostaert, Flemish landscape painter (born 1428)
  • Heinrich Zell, German printer and cartographer (born unknown)

Notes and References

1. Book: Iain Fenlon. The Renaissance: From the 1470s to the End of the 16th Century. 1989. Palgrave Macmillan UK. 978-0-333-52652-1. 389.
2. Book: Rhonda L. Clements. Games and Great Ideas: A Guide for Elementary School Physical Educators and Classroom Teachers. 1995. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-313-29460-0. 10.
3. https://www.frilligallery.com/goto/popup/catalogue-detail/show/268,5/morgante-dwarf-from-boboli-garden Morgante Dwarf from Boboli Garden
4. Book: William B. Jordan. Sarah Schroth. Spanish Still Life in the Golden Age, 1600-1650. 1985. Kimbell Art Museum. 978-0-912804-19-4. 43.
5. Book: Ira Moskowitz. Great Drawings of All Time: Italian, thirteenth through nineteenth century. 1976. Kodansha International. 978-0-87011-263-8. 273.
6. Book: James R. Hobbes. The Picture Collector's Manual: Alphabetical arrangement of scholars and masters and classification of subjects. 1849. T. & W. Boone. 44.
7. Book: Maggs Bros. Bibliotheca Americana. 1962. Maggs bros. 81.
8. Book: Fern Rusk Shapley. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools: XVI-XVIII century. 1973. Phaidon P.. 978-0-7148-1547-3. 61.
9. Book: Derek Parker. Cellini: Artist, Genius, Fugitive. 2003. Sutton. 978-0-7509-2957-8. 213.
10. Book: Ivan Fenyo. Iván Fenyő. North Italian Drawings from the Collection of the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts. 1966. October House. 84.