1554 in art

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Events

A group of Edinburgh painters, led by one Walter Binning, assault an outsider, David Warkman, who has been painting a ceiling in the city.^[1]

Titian, Danae, 1554

February 27 - Giovanni Battista Paggi, Italian painter (died 1627)
date unknown
- Paul Brill, landscape painter of frescoes who worked in Rome (died 1626)
- Cesare Corte, Italian painter active mainly in his natal city of Genoa (died 1613)
- Augustin Cranach, German painter, son of Lucas Cranach the Younger (died 1595)
- Costantini de' Servi, Italian painter (died 1622)
- Mir Emad Hassani, Persian Nastaʿlīq script calligrapher (died 1615)
- Rombertus van Uylenburgh, father-in-law of Rembrandt (died 1624)
probable - William Segar, court painter to Queen Elizabeth I of England (died 1633)

April - Simone Mosca, Italian sculptor (born 1492)
December 22 - Moretto da Brescia, Italian Renaissance painter of Brescia and Venice (born 1498)
date unknown
- Giovanni Francesco Rustici, Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor (born 1474)
- Anthony Toto, Italian painter and architect (born 1498)
probable
- Michelangelo Anselmi, Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter active mostly in Parma (born 1492)
- Hans Brosamer, German engraver, wood-cutter, and portraitist (born 1506)