1552 in art

Events from the year 1552 in art.

Events

 * date unknown – Spanish sculptor and architect Alonso Berruguete begins work on the hospital of St. John the Baptist in Toledo.

Paintings

 * Christoph Amberger – Portrait of Sebastian Münster
 * Bronzino – Portrait of the Dwarf Nano Morgante
 * Dirck Jacobsz. – A Group of Guardsmen
 * Hans Mielich – Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria and his wife Anna of Austria playing chess
 * Tintoretto – The Vision of St. Peter
 * Giorgio Vasari – Allegory of Patience

Other works

 * Altarpiece of the Iglesia de San Juan Bautista (Chiclana de la Frontera) by Roque Balduque and Andrés Ramírez
 * Pierino da Vinci – Samson Slaying a Philistine (sculpture - ca.)

Births

 * August 24 (bapt.) – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (died 1614)
 * September 21 – Barbara Longhi, Italian painter (died 1638)
 * date unknown
 * Hans von Aachen, German Mannerist painter (died 1615)
 * Alessandro Casolano, Italian painter primarily working in Siena (died 1606)
 * Daniël van den Queborn, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1602)
 * Emanuel Sweert, Dutch painter (died 1612)
 * probable
 * Avanzino Nucci, Italian painter (died 1629)
 * Cristoforo Roncalli, Italian painter (died 1626)

Deaths

 * July 12 – Niccolò Soggi, Italian painter (born c.1480)
 * date unknown
 * Amico Aspertini, early leader of the Bolognese School of painting (born c.1474)
 * Peter Dell the Elder, German sculptor (born 1490)
 * Lucas Cornelisz de Kock, Dutch painter at the Tudor court (born 1495)
 * Giovanni Antonio Lappoli, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1492)
 * Qiu Ying, Chinese painter who specialized in the gongbi brush technique (born 1494)
 * Wilhelm Stetter, German Renaissance painter (born 1487)