1566 in art

Overview of the events of 1566 in art

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Events from the year 1566 in art.

## Events

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* August 10 \- Beeldenstorm: At the end of a pilgrimage from Hondschoote to Steenvoorde, the chapel of the Sint-Laurensklooster is defaced by a crowd. It is the start of a period of several weeks of violent iconoclasm in which paintings and church decorations and fittings are destroyed throughout the Low Countries.[1]
* Pieter Bruegel the Elder begins painting The Massacre of the Innocents (1566-1567).
* Giuseppe Arcimboldo returns to the Italian city-states.
* An epitaph to Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen, designed by Sigmund Linger, is erected in the St. Giles Chapel of the St. John's Church in Schleusingen.

## Paintings

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Massacre of the Innocents, c.1566-1567

* Giuseppe Arcimboldo
* The Jurist
* The Librarian (approximate date)
* Water or Fish (The Four Elements; Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
* Pieter Bruegel the Elder \- The Census at Bethlehem
* Antoine Caron \- The Massacres of the Triumvirate
* Hans Eworth \- Nicholas Heath, Archbishop of York
* Paolo Veronese \- altarpiece of Jesus' baptism, at the cathedral of Lignano Sabbiadoro

## Births

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* January 15 \- Philipp Uffenbach, German painter and etcher (died 1636)
* date unknown
* Giovanni Baglione, Italian early baroque painter and historian of art (died 1643)
* Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch painter and printmaker (died 1651)
* Domenico Carpinoni, Italian painter of primarily religious works (died 1658)
* Johann Matthias Kager, German painter (died 1634)
* Santo Peranda, a historical painter of Venice (died 1638)
* Joachim Wtewael, Dutch painter and engraver (died 1638)

## Deaths

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* April 4 \- Daniele da Volterra, Italian mannerist painter and sculptor (born c.1509)
* April 16 \- Juan Correa de Vivar, Spanish Renaissance (Renacimiento) painter (born c.1510)
* August - Lambert Lombard, Flemish Renaissance painter, architect and theorist for the Prince-Bishopric of Liège (born 1505)
* August 4 \- Girolamo della Robbia, Italian ceramicist (born 1488)
* date unknown
* Ahmed Karahisari, Ottoman calligrapher (born 1468)
* probable
* Niccolò Boldrini, Italian engraver (born c.1500)
* Girolamo Romanino, Italian painter (born c.1485)
* Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Flemish Northern Renaissance painter (born c.1500)

## References

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1. ^ Arnade, Peter J., Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots: the Political Culture of the Dutch Revolt, Cornell University Press, 2008, ISBN 0-8014-7496-5, ISBN 978-0-8014-7496-5, 103-104

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