1555 in art

Events from the year 1555 in art.

Events

 * Villa Giulia is completed, which now houses the National Etruscan Museum's collection of Etruscan civilization art and artifacts

Paintings

 * Sofonisba Anguissola - Lucia, Minerva and Europa Anguissola Playing Chess
 * Cristofano Gherardi - Transfiguration (Cortona)
 * c. 1555 – Titian
 * Venus with a Mirror
 * Venus and Musician (Museo del Prado's second version)
 * c.1555 - Paolo Veronese - Venus Disarming Cupid
 * c. 1555-1560 – Illuminated tughra of Sultan Suleiman, from Istanbul, Turkey (now in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Births

 * April 21 – Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (died 1619)
 * date unknown
 * Carlo Antonio Procaccini, Italian painter of still lifes and landscapes (died unknown)
 * Dong Qichang, Chinese painter, scholar, calligrapher, and art theorist of the later period of the Ming dynasty (died 1636)
 * Aegidius Sadeler I, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family (died 1609)
 * Antonio Tempesta, Florentine painter and engraver, worked in Rome, influenced by Counter-Mannerism (died 1630)
 * Giovanni Battista Trotti, Italian painter active mainly in his native city of Cremona (died 1612)
 * probable
 * Jacob de Backer, Flemish Mannerist painter and draughtsman (died 1585)

Deaths

 * July 2 - Girolamo dai Libri, Italian illuminator of manuscripts and painter of altarpieces (born 1474/1475)
 * date unknown
 * Giovanni Antonio Amato, Italian painter (born 1475)
 * Barthel Bruyn the Elder, German painter (born 1493)
 * Niccolò Giolfino, Italian painter (born 1476)
 * Gerolamo Giovenone, Italian painter (born c.1486)
 * probable
 * (died 1555/1558): Giovanni Francesco Caroto, Italian painter active in Verona (born 1480)
 * (died 1555/1558): Benedetto Montagna, Italian engraver (born 1481)
 * (died 1555/1561): Heinrich Aldegrever, German painter and engraver (born 1502)
 * Herri met de Bles, Flemish Northern Renaissance and Mannerist landscape painter (born 1510)
 * Jan Mostaert, Dutch painter of portraits and religious subjects (born 1475)
 * Mir Musavvir, Persian illustrator and painter (born unknown)