1558 in art

Events

• Benvenuto Cellini begins writing his influential autobiography, focusing not only on his life but on his goldsmith's art, sculpture, and design.
• Juan Bautista Vázquez the Elder returns to Avila to complete the altarpiece at the Monastery of Santa Maria de las Cuevas, left unfinished by Isidro de Villoldo.

Works

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, 1558

Paintings

• Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
• Pierre Reymond – Tazza: Scene from the Book of Proverbs
• Domenico Campagnola – Callisto's Transformation into a Bear after Giving Birth to Arcas
• Tintoretto – Saint George and the Dragon
• Titian - Crucifixion
• Paolo Veronese – Assumption of the Virgin

Births

• January (or February) Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and painter (died 1617)
• December 3 - Gregorio Pagani, Italian painter active mainly in Florence (died 1605)
• date unknown
  • Giovanni Alberti, Italian painter (died 1601)
  • Baldassare Croce, Italian academic painter and director of the Accademia di San Luca (died 1628)
  • Honami Kōetsu, Japanese craftsman, founder of the Rinpa school (died 1637)
  • Dirk Pietersz, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1621)
  • Juan de las Roelas, Seville-based painter (died 1625)
  • Gregorius Sickinger, Swiss painter, draughtsman, and engraver (died 1631)
  • Jan de Wael I, Flemish painter of the Baroque period (died 1633)
• probable
  • Belisario Corenzio, Italian Mannerist painter (died 1643)
  • Chen Jiru, Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher during the Ming Dynasty (died 1639)

Deaths

• January 24 - Gerlach Flicke, German limner and portrait painter working in London
• August 15 - Paul Lautensack, Germain painter and musician (born 1478)
• date unknown - Scipione Sacco, Italian painter of the Renaissance active in Cesena (born 1495)
• probable
  • (died 1555/1558): Giovanni Francesco Caroto, Italian painter active in Verona (born 1480)
  • (died 1555/1558): Benedetto Montagna, Italian engraver (born 1481)