1559 in art

Events

Works

Paintings

• Pieter Bruegel the Elder
  • The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
  • Netherlandish Proverbs
• Luca Cambiaso – Resurrected Christ

Births

• Juan de las Roelas – Spanish painter (died 1625)
• Francesco Bassano the Younger, painter (died 1592)
• Kanō Sanraku – Japanese painter (died 1635)
• Francesco Cavazzone – Italian painter and art historian (d. 1612)
• Domenico Passignano – Italian painter of a late-Renaissance or Contra-Maniera (Counter-Mannerism) style (died 1636)
• Cigoli – Italian painter and architect of the late Mannerist period (d. 1613)

Deaths

• Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen – Dutch Northern Renaissance painter (b. 1500)
• Wen Zhengming – Ming Dynasty painter, calligrapher, and scholar (b. 1470)
• Kanō Motonobu – Japanese painter (b. 1476)
• Benvenuto Tisi (il Garofalo) – Late-Renaissance-Mannerist Italian painter of the School of Ferrara (b. 1481)