1568 in art

Events

Works

Paintings

• El Greco paints The Last Supper

Births

• Alessandro Albini – Italian painter of the early Baroque period (d. 1646)
• Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (d. 1625)
• Guglielmo Caccia called il Moncalvo – Italian painter who specialised in altar-pieces (d. 1625)^[1]
• Vincenzo Carducci – Italian painter (d. 1638)
• Giuseppe Cesari known as the Cavaliere d'Arpino – Italian painter (d. 1640)^[2]
• Zeng Jing – Chinese painter during the Ming Dynasty (d. 1650)
• Juan Martínez Montañés – also known as el Dios de la Madera, Spanish sculptor (d. 1649)
• Ventura Salimbeni – Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker (d. 1613)

Deaths

• Luis de Vargas – Spanish painter of the late-Renaissance period (b. 1502)
• Wang Guxiang – Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (b. 1501)

Notes and References

1. ^ Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh Festival Society (1969). Italian 16th century drawings from British private collections : [catalogue of] an exhibition [held at] the Merchants' Hall, 22 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, August 23rd-September 13th, 1969. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Festival Society Ltd.. p. 21. OCLC 606129756. 
2. ^ Turčić, Lawrence (1987). "A Drawing of Fame by the Cavaliere d'Arpino". Metropolitan Museum Journal (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) 22: pp. 93-95. JSTOR 1512836.