1572 in art

The year 1572 in art involved some significant events and new works.

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Events

Works

Arcimboldo – Summer, Denver Art Museum

• Giuseppe Arcimboldo – Summer
• Federico Barocci – Portrait of Francisco II della Rovere (Uffizi)
• Lucas de Heere (attributed) – The Family of Henry VIII, an Allegory of the Tudor Succession (approximate date)
• Nicholas Hilliard - Portrait miniature and (approximate date) "Pelican" portrait of Elizabeth I of England
• Paolo Veronese
  • Allegory of the Battle of Lepanto (approximate date)
  • Feast of St Gregory the Great

Births

• date unknown
  • Jan Antonisz van Ravesteyn, painter of the Dutch court in The Hague (died 1657)
  • Fabrizio Boschi, Italian painter of the early-Baroque period, active in Florence (died 1642)
  • Barend van Someren, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1632)
• probable
  • Giovanni Bernardino Azzolini or Mazzolini or Asoleni, Italian painter (died 1645)

Deaths

• March 5 - Giulio Campi, Italian painter and architect (born 1500)
• November 23 – Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian artist and poet (born 1503)
• December 22 - François Clouet, French Renaissance miniaturist and painter (born 1510)
• date unknown
  • Mir Sayyid Ali, Persian illustrator and painter (born 1510)
  • Mirabello Cavalori, Italian painter mainly active in Florence (born 1520)
  • Danese Cattaneo – Italian sculptor (born 1509)
• probable - Jean Goujon, French sculptor and architect during the French Renaissance (born c.1510)