1577 in art
# 1577 in art

Events from the year 1577 in art.

## Events

* El Greco moves from Rome to Spain, where he will spend the rest of his life.
* The Accademia di San Luca is founded as an association of artists in Rome.

## Works

Some dates approximate

* Lavinia Fontana - Self-Portrait at the Clavichord Accompanied by a Handmaiden
* El Greco - The Repentant Magdalen
* Nicholas Hilliard - Portrait miniatures
   * The Duke of Alençon
   * Marguerite of Navarre
   * Self-portrait
* Cornelis Ketel - Martin Frobisher

## Births

* March 20 - Alessandro Tiarini, Italian Baroque painter of frescoes, façade decorations, and altarpieces (died 1668)
* June 28 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (died 1640)
* July 21 - Adam Willaerts, Dutch painter (died 1664)
* October 17 - Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (died 1621)
* December 8 - Mario Minniti, Italian painter, also the model for Caravaggio's painting Boy with a Basket of Fruit (died 1640)
* date unknown
   * Eugenio Caxés, Spanish painter (died 1634)
   * Giacomo Cavedone, Italian painter of the Bolognese School (died 1660)
   * Giovanni Battista Crescenzi, Italian painter and architect (died 1635)
   * Aart Jansz Druyvesteyn, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1627)
   * Cornelis van der Geest, Dutch merchant and art collector (died 1638)

## Deaths

* February 17 - Giuliano Bugiardini, Italian painter (born 1475)
* May - Richard Aertsz, Dutch historical painter (born 1482)
* June 12 - Orazio Samacchini, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1532)
* date unknown
   * Juan de Juni, French–Spanish sculptor (born 1507)
   * Léonard Limousin, French painter, member of Limoges enamel painter family (born 1505)
   * Guglielmo della Porta, Italian architect and sculptor (born c.1500)
   * Antonis Mor, Dutch portrait painter (born 1517)
   * Cristóbal Ramírez, painter and illuminator of manuscripts for King Philip II of Spain
   * Lorenzo Sabbatini, Italian painter (born 1530)
   * Michele Tosini, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1503)
* probable - Gert van Groningen, Danish sculptor (date of birth unknown)
