1553 in art

Events from the year 1553 in art.

Events

 * Maarten van Heemskerck becomes curate of St. Bavochurch, where he serves 22 years
 * After Bonifazio Veronese dies, Palma il Giovane takes over his workshop and clientele

Paintings

 * Giovanni Battista Moroni - Portrait of a Man
 * Titian - Venus and Adonis
 * Paolo Veronese - Temptation of St Anthony (altarpiece created for Mantua Cathedral taken from Italy by Napoleon now in Caen, France - begun in 1552, completed in 1553)

Births

 * date unknown
 * Cherubino Alberti or Borghegiano, Italian engraver and painter (died 1615)
 * Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont, Spanish soldier, painter, musician and inventor (died 1613)
 * Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Spanish painter (died 1608)
 * Niccolò Granello, Italian fresco painter established in Spain (died 1593)
 * Hieronymus Wierix, Flemish engraver (died 1619)

Deaths

 * February - Augustin Hirschvogel, German artist, mathematician, and cartographer known primarily for his etchings (born 1503)
 * May 22 - Giovanni Bernardi, Italian gem engraver and medalist (born 1494)
 * June 3 - Wolf Huber, Austrian painter, printmaker, and architect, a leading member of the Danube School (born 1485)
 * October 16 - Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving (born 1472)
 * October 19 - Bonifazio Veronese, Italian Mannerist painter from Venice (born 1487)
 * date unknown
 * Giorgio Andreoli, Italian potter of the Italian Renaissance, inventor of a particular kind of lusterware (lustro) (born 1465/1470)
 * Cornelis Anthonisz., Dutch painter, engraver and mapmaker (born 1505)
 * Adriaen Pietersz Crabeth, Dutch glass painter (born 1510)
 * Francesco Signorelli - Italian Renaissance painter (born 1495)
 * probable - Domenico Alfani, Italian painter (born 1480)