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Events from the year
1562 in art
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Events
Paintings
Births
Deaths
References
Events
In
Venice
,
sumptuary laws
decree that all
gondolas
must be painted black to prevent lavish displays of wealth.
Giorgio Vasari
, who had begun work on the
Uffizi
in
Florence
in
1560
, founds the Academy of Design.
Paolo Veronese
begins painting
The Wedding at Cana
(1562-
1563
).
The
Medici
court
astronomer
Fra
Ignazio Danti
paints maps at the
Palazzo Vecchio
.
Tintoretto
begins the three paintings of the miracles of
St. Mark
(1562–66) for the
Scuola di San Marco
.
Flemish artist
Hieronymus Cock
and Spanish cartographer
Diego Gutiérrez
produce the map
Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio
.
Paintings
Pieter Brueghel the Elder
,
The Triumph of Death
(c.1562) in the
Museo del Prado
,
Madrid
Pieter Brueghel the Elder
paints
The Triumph of Death
and
Dull Gret
, both strongly influenced by the style of
Hieronymus Bosch
.
Frans Floris
paints
The Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, Son of God, Gathering and Protecting Mankind
(Allegory of the Trinity)
.
[
1
]
Lattanzio Gambara
paints
frescos
.
Titian
paints
The Death of Actaeon
(
National Gallery
,
London
; approximate date) and
The Rape of Europa
(
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
,
Boston
).
Ludger Tom Ring the Younger
paints a pair of upright pictures of
iris
and
lilies
.
Births
May 6
-
Pietro Bernini
, Italian sculptor and father of the more famous
Gianlorenzo Bernini
(died
1629
)
date unknown
Fabrizio Castello
, Italian painter of
Genoese
origin settled in Spain (died
1617
)
Jerónimo Rodriguez de Espinosa
,
Spanish
painter of the
Renaissance
period (died
1630
)
Pietro Faccini
,
Italian
painter in styles bridging
Mannerism
and the nascent
Baroque
(died
1602/1614
)
Cornelis van Haarlem
,
Dutch
painter and
draughtsman
, was one of the leading
Mannerist
artists in
The Netherlands
(died
1638
)
Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom
,
Dutch
painter (died
1640
), father of reverse-named painter
Cornelis Hendriksz Vroom
(
1591
-
1661
)
Deaths
August 1
-
Virgil Solis
, German
draughtsman
and
printmaker
in
engraving
,
etching
and
woodcut
(born
1514
)
November 11
-
Francesco de' Rossi
("Il Salviati"),
Florentine
Mannerist
painter (born
1510
)
December 6
-
Jan van Scorel
,
Dutch
painter credited with the introduction of
High Italian Renaissance
art to
the Netherlands
(born
1495
)
date unknown
Francesco del Prato
, Italian still-life painter and goldsmith (born
unknown
)
Jean Duvet
,
French
Renaissance
goldsmith and engraver (born
1485
)
Francesco Torbido
, Italian painter (born
1486
)
References
↑
"The Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, Son of God, Gathering and Protecting Mankind"
.
Web Gallery of Art
. Retrieved
11 December
2025
.
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