1558 in art
# 1558 in art

Events from the year 1558 in art.

## Events

* Benvenuto Cellini begins writing his influential autobiography, focusing not only on his life but on his goldsmith's art, sculpture, and design.
* Juan Bautista Vázquez the Elder returns to Avila to complete the altarpiece at the Monastery of Santa Maria de las Cuevas, left unfinished by Isidro de Villoldo.

## Paintings

* Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
* Pierre Reymond – Tazza: Scene from the Book of Proverbs
* Domenico Campagnola – Callisto's Transformation into a Bear after Giving Birth to Arcas
* Tintoretto – Saint George and the Dragon
* Titian - Crucifixion
* Paolo Veronese – Assumption of the Virgin

## Births

* January (or February) Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and painter (died 1617)
* December 3 - Gregorio Pagani, Italian painter active mainly in Florence (died 1605)
* date unknown
   * Giovanni Alberti, Italian painter (died 1601)
   * Baldassare Croce, Italian academic painter and director of the Accademia di San Luca (died 1628)
   * Honami Kōetsu, Japanese craftsman, founder of the Rinpa school (died 1637)
   * Dirk Pietersz, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1621)
   * Juan de las Roelas, Seville-based painter (died 1625)
   * Gregorius Sickinger, Swiss painter, draughtsman, and engraver (died 1631)
   * Jan de Wael I, Flemish painter of the Baroque period (died 1633)
* probable
   * Belisario Corenzio, Italian Mannerist painter (died 1643)
   * Chen Jiru, Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher during the Ming Dynasty (died 1639)

## Deaths

* January 24 - Gerlach Flicke, German limner and portrait painter working in London
* August 15 - Paul Lautensack, Germain painter and musician (born 1478)
* date unknown - Scipione Sacco, Italian painter of the Renaissance active in Cesena (born 1495)
* probable
   * (died 1555/1558): Giovanni Francesco Caroto, Italian painter active in Verona (born 1480)
   * (died 1555/1558): Benedetto Montagna, Italian engraver (born 1481)
