1578 in art

Events from the year 1578 in art.

Events

• March 8 - On the death of Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Küstrin, her husband, Margrave George Frederick I of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach commissions a monument by Willem van Bloche.

Works

Thomas Pead by Cornelis Ketel

• George Gower – Lady Philippa Coningsby
• Cornelis Ketel – Portraits
  • Richard Goodricke of Ribston
  • Thomas Pead

Births

• March 17 – Francesco Albani,^[1] Italian painter (died 1660)
• August 10 – Matteo Rosselli,^[2] Italian painter of historical paintings in the late Florentine and early Baroque (died 1650)
• October 12 – Baldassare Aloisi,^[3] Italian portrait painter and engraver (died 1638)
• date unknown
  • Jan Baptist Barbé, Flemish engraver (died 1649)
  • Battistello Caracciolo,^[4] Italian painter (died 1635)
  • Agostino Ciampelli,^[5] Italian fresco painter (died 1640)
  • Adam Elsheimer,^[6] German "cabinet" painter (died 1610)
  • Fede Galizia,^[7] Italian still life painter (died 1630)
  • Ottavio Leoni,^[8] Italian painter and printmaker (died 1630)
  • Francisco Lopez Caro, Spanish painter (died 1662)
  • Bartolomeo Schedoni,^[9] Italian painter (died 1615)
  • Jean Toutin, French enamel worker, one of the first artists to make enamel portrait miniatures (died 1644)
  • Alessandro Turchi,^[10] Italian painter (died 1649)
  • Hieronymus Francken II,^[11] Flemish painter (d. unknown)
  • Francesco Stringa, Italian court painter for Duke Ranuccio I Farnese (died 1615)
• probable
  • Guy François, French painter (died 1650)
  • Iwasa Matabei,^[12] Japanese painter (died 1650)
  • Pieter Neeffs I, Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in architectural interiors of churches (died 1656)
  • Gerrit van Bloclant, Dutch Renaissance painter (died 1650)

Deaths

• January 5 – Giulio Clovio, Croatian illustrator and miniaturist (born 1498)
• February 5 – Giovanni Battista Moroni, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1520/1524)
• March 17 - Cornelis Cort, Dutch engraver and draughtsman (born 1533)
• August 28 - Giovanni Battista Zelotti, Italian painter (born 1526)
• October 13 - Jean Bullant, French sculptor and architect (born 1515)
• Date unknown
  • Pierre Lamo, Italian history painter
  • Bernardino Lanini, Italian Renaissance painter active mainly in Milan (born 1511) (probable date)
  • Benedetto Pagni, Italian painter
  • Qian Gu, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (born c.1508) (approximate date)
  • Raffaellino da Reggio, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1550)