Events from the year 1580 in art.

Events

• Mannerism art period in Italy ends.^[1]

Works

Tintoretto – Danaë, Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon

• Vincenzo Campi – The Fruit Seller (approximate date)
• Gillis Coignet - Callisto
• El Greco – Christ Carrying the Cross (approximate date)
• Tintoretto – Danaë
• Tintoretto - Baptism of Christ (approximate date)
• Jacopo Zucchi - The Miracle of the Snow

Births

• January 20 – Stefano Amadei, Italian still-life painter (died 1644)
• July 18 – Giovanni Giacomo Semenza, Italian painter of the early Baroque period (died 1638)
• ?October - Willem Jacobsz Delff, Dutch painter (died 1638)
• date unknown
  • Cesare Aretusi, Italian painter primarily of portraits (died 1612)
  • Friedrich Brentel, German printmaker in engraving and etching, and miniature painter (died 1651)^[2]
  • Giovanni Domenico Cappellino, Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in his natal city of Genoa (died 1651)
  • Castellino Castello, Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa (died 1649)
  • Cornelis IJsbrantsz Cussens, Dutch draughtsman and glass painter (died 1618)
  • Lorenzo Garbieri, Italian painter (died 1654)
  • Sebastiano Ghezzi, Italian painter and architect (died 1645)
  • Giacomo Locatelli, Italian painter born at Verona (died 1628)
  • William Peake, English painter and printseller (died 1639)
  • Camillo Rizzi, Italian painter (died 1618)
  • Andries Stock, Dutch painter (died 1648)
  • Friedrich van Hulsen, Dutch printmaker and engraver (died 1665)
  • Jacob van Musscher, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1623)
  • Alessandro Vitali,Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and Baroque periods (died 1650)
• probable
  • Abdón Castañeda, Spanish Baroque painter (died 1629)
  • Luca Ciamberlano, Italian engraver (died unknown)
  • Louis Finson, Flemish painter of the Dutch Golden Age (died 1617)
  • Vincenzo Gotti, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1636)
  • Frans Hals, Dutch painter (died 1666)
  • Baltazar Kuncz, Polish sculptor and woodcarver (died 1650)
  • Diego de Leyva, Spanish religious painter (died 1637)
  • Hendrik Gerritsz Pot, Dutch painter (died 1657)
  • Hendrik van Steenwijk II, Dutch Baroque painter of architectural interiors (died 1649)
  • Francisco Varela, Spanish Baroque painter (died 1645)

Deaths

• February 25 - Marx Weiß, German Gothic painter (born c.1518)
• date unknown
  • Livio Agresti, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period (born 1508)
  • Giovan Battista della Cerva, Italian painter (born 1515)
  • Jean Chartier, French painter, draughtsman, printer and publisher (born 1500)
  • Hans Collaert, Flemish engraver (born 1525/1530)
  • Luca Longhi, Italian painter of the Mannerist period (born 1507)
• probable - Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta Italian Mannerist painter active in Rome (born 1521)

References