1559 in art
# 1559 in art

Events from the year 1559 in art.

## Events

* Francesco Primaticcio and his assistants complete painting the Salle d'Hercule at the Palace of Fontainebleau (begun in the 1530s).
* Sidsel Ulfstand and others complete the tapestry in the great hall of the Danish royal palace.

## Works

* Pieter Bruegel the Elder
   * The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
   * Netherlandish Proverbs
* Luca Cambiaso – Resurrected Christ
* Titian
   * The Entombment
   * St Margaret and the Dragon

## Births

* January 26 - Francesco Bassano the Younger, painter (died 1592)
* September 12 - Cigoli, Italian painter and architect of the late Mannerist period (died 1613)
* date unknown
   * Francesco Cavazzoni, Italian painter and art historian (died 1612)
   * Orazio Farinati, Italian Mannerist painter (died 1616)
   * Domenico Passignano, Italian painter of a late-Renaissance or Counter-Maniera (Counter-Mannerism) style (died 1636)
   * Kanō Sanraku, Japanese painter (died 1635)
* probable
   * Jan Vermeyen, Dutch goldsmith of the Renaissance Mannerism (died 1606)

## Deaths

* September 6 - Benvenuto Tisi (Il Garofalo), late-RenaissanceMannerist Italian painter of the School of Ferrara (born 1481)
* November 5 - Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter (born 1476)
* date unknown
   * Giovanni da Nola, Italian sculptor and architect (born 1478)
   * Nicolas Denisot, French Renaissance poet and painter (born 1515)
   * Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, Dutch Northern Renaissance painter (born 1500)
   * Wen Zhengming, Ming Dynasty painter, calligrapher, and scholar (born 1470)
* probable - Juste de Juste, Franco-Italian sculptor and printmaker in etching (born 1505)
