1563 in art

Overview of the events of 1563 in art

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Events from the year 1563 in art.

## Events

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

## Paintings

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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 Adoration of the Magi in a Winter Landscape, 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

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* June 4 \- George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith, jeweler and philanthropist (died 1624)
* date unknown
* Grazio Cossali, Italian painter (died 1629)
* Ercole dell'Abate, Italian painter (died 1618)
* Benedetto Gennari, Italian painter of the early-Baroque period (died 1610)
* Orazio Gentileschi, Italian Baroque Caravaggisti painter (died 1639)
* Anton Möller, Polish painter (died 1611)
* Heo Nanseolheon, Korean poet and painter (died 1589)
* Francesco Vanni, Italian mannerist painter (died 1610)

## Deaths

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* October 22 \- Diego Siloe, Spanish Renaissance architect and sculptor (born 1490)
* date unknown \- Andrea Schiavone, Venetian Renaissance etcher and painter (born 1510/1515)

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