1563 in art

Events

• The Medici court astronomer Fra Ignazio Danti paints 57 maps at the Palazzo Vecchio.

Paintings

• Pieter Brueghel the Elder paints "The Tower of Babel" – The Tower of Babel (Brueghel).
• Giuseppe Arcimboldo paints The Four Seasons series.
• De Heere paints a portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots.
• At the Città della Pieve, in Umbria, Niccolò Circignani paints the "Concert" (in the Government Room).
• Giovanni Battista Moroni paints The Count Pietro Secco Suardo.
• Paolo Veronese (1528–1588) completes The Wedding at Cana (1562-1563).
• A portrait diptych is painted of the Antwerp merchant Adriaan van Santvoort and his family.

Births

• Anton Möller, Polish painter (d. 1611)
• Benedetto Gennari – Italian painter of the early-Baroque period (d. 1658)
• Orazio Gentileschi – Italian Baroque Caravaggisti painter (d. 1639)
• George Heriot – Scottish goldsmith, jeweler, and philanthropist (d. 1624)
• Francesco Vanni – Italian mannerist painter (d. 1610)

Deaths

• Francesco de' Rossi – Italian Mannerist painter from Florence (b. 1510)
• Andrea Schiavone – Renaissance etcher and painter, active mainly in Venice (b. 1510/1515)
• Diego Siloe – Spanish Renaissance architect and sculptor (b. 1490)