1555 in art

Overview of the events of 1555 in art

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Events from the year 1555 in art.

## Events

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* Villa Giulia is completed, which now houses the National Etruscan Museum's collection of Etruscan civilization art and artifacts

## Paintings

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Sofonisba Anguissola \- The Chess Players (National Museum, Poznań)

* Sofonisba Anguissola \- Lucia, Minerva and Europa Anguissola Playing Chess
* Cristofano Gherardi \- Transfiguration (Cortona)
* c. 1555 – Titian
* Venus with a Mirror
* Venus and Musician (Museo del Prado's second version)
* c.1555 - Paolo Veronese \- Venus Disarming Cupid[1]
* c. 1555-1560 – Illuminated tughra of Sultan Suleiman, from Istanbul, Turkey (now in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

## Births

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* April 21 – Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (died 1619)
* date unknown
* Carlo Antonio Procaccini, Italian painter of still lifes and landscapes (died unknown)
* Dong Qichang, Chinese painter, scholar, calligrapher, and art theorist of the later period of the Ming dynasty (died 1636)
* Aegidius Sadeler I, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family (died 1609)
* Antonio Tempesta, Florentine painter and engraver, worked in Rome, influenced by Counter-Mannerism (died 1630)
* Giovanni Battista Trotti, Italian painter active mainly in his native city of Cremona (died 1612)
* probable
* Jacob de Backer, Flemish Mannerist painter and draughtsman (died 1585)

## Deaths

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* July 2 \- Girolamo dai Libri, Italian illuminator of manuscripts and painter of altarpieces (born 1474/1475)
* date unknown
* Giovanni Antonio Amato, Italian painter (born 1475)
* Barthel Bruyn the Elder, German painter (born 1493)
* Niccolò Giolfino, Italian painter (born 1476)
* Gerolamo Giovenone, Italian painter (born c.1486)
* probable
* (died 1555/1558): Giovanni Francesco Caroto, Italian painter active in Verona (born 1480)
* (died 1555/1558): Benedetto Montagna, Italian engraver (born 1481)
* (died 1555/1561): Heinrich Aldegrever, German painter and engraver (born 1502)
* Herri met de Bles, Flemish Northern Renaissance and Mannerist landscape painter (born 1510)
* Jan Mostaert, Dutch painter of portraits and religious subjects (born 1475)
* Mir Musavvir, Persian illustrator and painter (born unknown)

## References

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1. ^ "[remastered]: VENUS DISARMING CUPID, Paolo Veronese, 2013.50 | Worcester Art Museum".

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