1568 in art
# 1568 in art

Events from the year 1568 in art.

## Events

* A new, enlarged edition of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects is published, including a new section on Leonardo da Vinci.

## Works

* Bruegel, The Blind Leading the Blind
* Bruegel, The Peasant Wedding
* Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Self-portrait

### Paintings

* Pieter Bruegel the Elder
   * The Blind Leading the Blind
   * The Peasant Wedding
   * The Tower of Babel
* El Greco – The Last Supper
* Gian Paolo Lomazzo – Self-portrait

## Births

* January 20 - Ventura Salimbeni, Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker (died 1613)
* March 16 - Juan Martínez Montañés, also known as el Dios de la Madera, Spanish sculptor (died 1649)
* May 9 - Guglielmo Caccia called il Moncalvo, Italian painter who specialised in altar-pieces (died 1625)
* date unknown
   * Alessandro Albini, Italian painter of the early Baroque period (died 1646)
   * Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (died 1625)
   * Giovanni Battista Calandra, Italian mosaic artist (died c.1644)
   * Vincenzo Carducci, Italian painter (died 1638)
   * Andrés de la Concha, Spanish painter (died unknown)
   * Adam van Vianen, Dutch Golden Age medallist, engraver and silversmith (died 1627)
* probable
   * Giuseppe Cesari, known as the Cavaliere d'Arpino, Italian painter (died 1640)

## Deaths

* June 5 - Willem Key, Flemish painter (born 1515)
* date unknown
   * Pierre Bontemps, French sculptor (born 1505)
   * Battista del Moro, Italian painter of the Renaissance period active in his native Verona (born 1512)
   * Lodovico Dolce, Italian art theorist (born 1508/1510)
   * Lucas Gassel, Flemish painter (born 1490)
   * Vincenzo Pagani, Italian painter (born 1490)
   * Luis de Vargas, Spanish painter (born 1502)
   * Wang Guxiang, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (born 1501)
   * 1568/1569 - Jacob Binck, German engraver and painter (born between 1490-1504)
