1566 in art
# 1566 in art

Events from the year 1566 in art.

## Events

* 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.
* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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)
