1583 in art

Events

• Italian Jesuit painter Giovanni Niccolo is sent to Portuguese Japan to found a painters' seminary.

Works

Bol – Grand Place in Bergen

• Bartolomeo Passarotti – The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (painted for chapel of Gabella Grossa, Bologna; now in Pinacotheca there)
• Annibale Carracci – Crucifixion
• Lavinia Fontana – Newborn Baby in a Crib (approximate date)
• Joseph Heintz – Venus and Adonis
• Quentin Metsys the Younger – The Sieve Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I of England

Sculptures

• Giambologna – Venus After the Bath
• Germain Pilon – Effigies of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici in coronation dress

Births

• date unknown
  • Alessandro Bardelli, Italian painter (died 1633)
  • Paolo Biancucci, Italian painter primarily of religious scenes (died 1653)
  • Antonio Carracci, Italian painter (died 1618)
  • Nicolaes de Giselaer, Dutch painter and draughtsman (died 1654)
  • Pieter Lastman, Dutch painter (died 1633)
  • Juan de Mesa, Spanish sculptor (died 1627)
  • Astolfo Petrazzi, Italian painter, active mainly in his native Siena (died 1653/1665)
  • Giovanni Valesio, Italian painter and engraver from Bologna (died 1633)
  • Hendrik van der Borcht the elder, engraver (died 1651)
• probable
  • Hendrik Goudt, Dutch painter (died 1648)
  • Jan Porcellis, Dutch marine artist (died 1632)
  • Jan Pynas, Dutch Baroque painter (died 1631)

Deaths

• March 24 - Hubert Goltzius, Dutch painter, engraver and printer (born 1526)
• June 8 - Matthijs Bril, landscape fresco painter who worked in Rome (born 1550)
• October 30 – Pirro Ligorio, Italian architect, painter, antiquarian and garden designer (born 1510)
• December 23 – Nicolás Factor, Spanish painter (born 1520)
• date unknown
  • Orazio Alfani, Italian painter (born 1510)
  • Lorenzo Costa the Younger, Italian painter (born 1537)
  • Wen Jia, Chinese painter of landscapes and flowers (born 1501)
  • Marco Pino, Italian painter of the Renaissance and Mannerist period (born 1521)
  • Martino Rota, engraver and printmaker (born 1520)
• probable
  • Jean Court, enamel painter (born 1511)
  • Melchior Lorck, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker of Danish-German origin (born 1526/1527)