1578 in art

Events from the year 1578 in art.

Events from the Year 1578 in Art

== Events ==

On March 8, following the death of Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Küstrin, her husband, Margrave George Frederick I of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach, commissions a monument from Willem van Bloche.

== Works ==

  • George Gower – Lady Philippa Coningsby
  • Cornelis Ketel – Portraits
  • Richard Goodricke of Ribston
  • Thomas Pead

== Births ==

  • March 17 – Francesco Albani, Italian painter (died 1660)
  • August 10 – Matteo Rosselli, Italian painter of historical paintings in the late Florentine and early Baroque (died 1650)
  • October 12 – Baldassare Aloisi, Italian portrait painter and engraver (died 1638)
  • Date unknown
  • Jan Baptist Barbé, Flemish engraver (died 1649)
  • Battistello Caracciolo, Italian painter (died 1635)
  • Agostino Ciampelli, Italian fresco painter (died 1640)
  • Adam Elsheimer, German “cabinet” painter (died 1610)
  • Fede Galizia, Italian still life painter (died 1630)
  • Ottavio Leoni, Italian painter and printmaker (died 1630)
  • Francisco Lopez Caro, Spanish painter (died 1662)
  • Bartolomeo Schedoni, Italian painter (died 1615)
  • Jean Toutin, French enamel worker, one of the first artists to create enamel portrait miniatures (died 1644)
  • Alessandro Turchi, Italian painter (died 1649)
  • Hieronymus Francken II, Flemish painter (d. unknown)
  • Francesco Stringa, Italian court painter for Duke Ranuccio I Farnese (died 1615)
  • Probable
  • Guy François, French painter (died 1650)
  • Iwasa Matabei, Japanese painter (died 1650)
  • Pieter Neeffs I, Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in architectural interiors of churches (died 1656)
  • Gerrit van Bloclant, Dutch Renaissance painter (died 1650)

== Deaths ==

  • January 5 – Giulio Clovio, Croatian illustrator and miniaturist (born 1498)
  • February 5 – Giovanni Battista Moroni, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1520/1524)
  • March 17 – Cornelis Cort, Dutch engraver and draughtsman (born 1533)
  • August 28 – Giovanni Battista Zelotti, Italian painter (born 1526)
  • October 13 – Jean Bullant, French sculptor and architect (born 1515)
  • Date unknown
  • Pierre Lamo, Italian history painter
  • Bernardino Lanini, Italian Renaissance painter active mainly in Milan (born 1511) (probable date)
  • Benedetto Pagni, Italian painter
  • Qian Gu, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (born c.1508) (approximate date)
  • Raffaellino da Reggio, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1550)

== Footnotes ==

== References ==

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). “Francisco Lopez-Caro”. Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). “Giorgio Clovio”. Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). “Giovanni Battista Moroni”. Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.