1583 in art
# 1583 in art

Events from the year 1583 in art.

## Events

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

## Works

* 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)
