1563 in art

Events

• January 13 – Accademia e Compagnia delle Arti del Disegno ("Academy and company of the arts of drawing") established in Florence by Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, under the influence of Giorgio Vasari.
• December 4 – Council of Trent issues a decree on the proper function of Roman Catholic art.
• The Medici court astronomer Fra Ignazio Danti paints 57 maps at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.

Paintings

Brueghel, The Tower of Babel, oil on board, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

• Giuseppe Arcimboldo paints his first The Four Seasons series.
• Pieter Brueghel the Elder paints Landscape with the Flight into Egypt and The Tower of Babel.
• Niccolò Circignani paints the Concert in the Government Room of the Città della Pieve in Umbria.
• Lucas de Heere paints a portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots.
• Giovanni Battista Moroni paints The Count Pietro Secco Suardo.
• Francesco Primaticcio paints Odysseus and Penelope.
• Bernaert de Rijckere paints a portrait diptych of Antwerp merchant Adriaan van Santvoort and his family.
• Paolo Veronese completes painting The Wedding at Cana (1562-1563).

Births

• Grazio Cossali, Italian painter (died 1629)
• Ercole dell'Abate, Italian painter (died 1618)
• Benedetto Gennari, Italian painter of the early-Baroque period (died 1658)
• Orazio Gentileschi, Italian Baroque Caravaggisti painter (died 1639)
• George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith, jeweler, and philanthropist (died 1624)
• Anton Möller, Polish painter (died 1611)
• Heo Nanseolheon, Korean poet and painter (died 1589)
• Francesco Vanni, Italian mannerist painter (died 1610)

Deaths

• Francesco de' Rossi, Florentine Mannerist painter (born 1510)
• Andrea Schiavone, Venetian Renaissance etcher and painter (born 1510/1515)
• Diego Siloe, Spanish Renaissance architect and sculptor (born 1490)