1560 in art

Events

• Giorgio Vasari begins work on the Uffizi in Florence for Cosimo I de' Medici as offices for the Florentine magistrates.

Paintings

Bruegel – Children's Games

• Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Children's Games
• Juan de Juanes – The Last Supper
• Maso da San Friano – Visitation (altarpiece)
• Antonis Mor – Portrait of the artist Jan van Scorel
• Steven van der Meulen – Elizabeth Clinton
• Karel van Mander – Prince Christian of Denmark

Births

• June 25 – Juan Sánchez Cotán, Spanish painter (died 1626)
• November 3 – Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (died 1609)
• date unknown
  • Giovanni Balducci, also called Il Cosci, Italian mannerist painter (died 1600)
  • Bartolomeo Carducci, Italian painter (died 1608)
  • Wenceslas Cobergher, Flemish Renaissance architect, engineer, painter, antiquarian, numismatist and economist (died 1634)
  • Marzio di Colantonio, Italian painter of still lifes and landscapes, and fresco decorations (died 1621)
  • Adriaen Collaert, Flemish engraver (died 1618)
  • Dominicus Custos, Flemish printer and copperplate engraver (died 1612)
  • Giovanni Niccolo, Italian Jesuit painter (died 1626)
  • Diego Polo the Elder, Spanish painter (died 1600)
  • Claudio Ridolfi, Italian painter (died 1644)
  • Daniel Soreau, German still life painter (died 1619)
  • Domenico Tintoretto, Venetian painter, son of Jacopo Tintoretto (died 1635)
  • Antonio Viviani, Italian painter of frescoes (died 1620)
• probable
  • Ludovico Buti, Italian painter active mostly in Florence (died 1611)
  • Baldassare d'Anna, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period (died 1639)
  • Paolo Camillo Landriani, Italian painter (died 1618)
  • Arent Passer, stonemason and architect (died 1637)
  • Fabrizio Santafede, Italian late-Mannerist painter (died 1635)
  • 1560/1561: Rafael Sadeler I, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family (died 1628/1632)

Deaths

• February 7 – Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Florentine sculptor (born 1493)
• date unknown
  • Antonio Badile, Italian painter from Verona (born 1518)
  • Giovanni Battista Caporali, Italian painter (born c.1476)
  • Francesco Vecellio, Venetian painter of the early Renaissance (born 1485), best known as the elder brother of the painter Titian.
  • Heinrich Zell, German printer and cartographer (born unknown)
• probable
  • Hans Sebald Lautensack, German painter and etcher (born 1524)
  • Herri met de Bles, Flemish Mannerist landscape painter (born c.1510)