1555 in art

Events from the year 1555 in art.

Events

• Villa Giulia is completed, which now houses the National Etruscan Museum's collection of Etruscan civilization art and artifacts

Paintings

• Sofonisba Anguissola - Lucia, Minerva and Europa Anguissola Playing Chess
• Cristofano Gherardi - Transfiguration (Cortona)
• c. 1555 – Titian
  • Venus with a Mirror
  • Venus and Musician (Museo del Prado's second version)
• c.1555 - Paolo Veronese - Venus Disarming Cupid^[1]
• c. 1555-1560 – Illuminated tughra of Sultan Suleiman, from Istanbul, Turkey (now in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Births

• April 21 – Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (died 1619)
• date unknown
  • Carlo Antonio Procaccini, Italian painter of still lifes and landscapes (died unknown)
  • calligrapher, and art theorist of the later period of the Ming dynasty (died 1636
    )
  • Aegidius Sadeler I, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family (died 1609)
  • Counter-Mannerism (died 1630
    )
  • Giovanni Battista Trotti, Italian painter active mainly in his native city of Cremona (died 1612)
• probable
  • Jacob de Backer, Flemish Mannerist painter and draughtsman (died 1585)

Deaths

• 1474/1475
  )
• date unknown
  • 1475
    )
  • 1493
    )
  • 1476
    )
  • Gerolamo Giovenone, Italian painter (born c.1486)
• probable
  • (died 1555/1558):
    1480
    )
  • (died 1555/1558):
    1481
    )
  • (died 1555/1561): Heinrich Aldegrever, German painter and engraver (born 1502)
  • Herri met de Bles, Flemish Northern Renaissance and Mannerist landscape painter (born 1510)
  • 1475
    )
  • Mir Musavvir, Persian illustrator and painter (born unknown)

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