1579 in art

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Contents

1 Events
2 Works
3 Paintings
4 Births
5 Deaths

Events

Works

Giambologna begins the Rape of the Sabine Women, a remarkable example of Mannerist sculpture

Paintings

Births

Trophime Bigot – French painter (d. 1649)
Frans Snyders – Flemish still-life master, apprenticed in 1593 to Pieter II Brueghel (d. 1657)
Carlo Saraceni – Italian early-Baroque painter of landscapes, cabinet paintings, and altarpieces (d. 1620)
Ottavio Viviani – Italian painter of quadratura (d. 1641)

Deaths

December 21 – Juan Vicente Macip (or Vicente Joanes Masip), Spanish painter of the Renaissance period (born 1500)
Juan Fernández Navarrete – Spanish Mannerist painter (b. 1526)
Marcello Venusti – Italian Mannerist painter primarily in Rome (b. 1512/1515)