1558 in art

Events from the year 1558 in art.

Events

 * Benvenuto Cellini begins writing his influential autobiography, focusing not only on his life but on his goldsmith's art, sculpture, and design.
 * Juan Bautista Vázquez the Elder returns to Avila to complete the altarpiece at the Monastery of Santa Maria de las Cuevas, left unfinished by Isidro de Villoldo.

Paintings

 * Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
 * Pierre Reymond – Tazza: Scene from the Book of Proverbs
 * Domenico Campagnola – Callisto's Transformation into a Bear after Giving Birth to Arcas
 * Tintoretto – Saint George and the Dragon
 * Titian - Crucifixion
 * Paolo Veronese – Assumption of the Virgin

Births

 * January (or February) Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and painter (died 1617)
 * December 3 - Gregorio Pagani, Italian painter active mainly in Florence (died 1605)
 * date unknown
 * Giovanni Alberti, Italian painter (died 1601)
 * Baldassare Croce, Italian academic painter and director of the Accademia di San Luca (died 1628)
 * Honami Kōetsu, Japanese craftsman, founder of the Rinpa school (died 1637)
 * Dirk Pietersz, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1621)
 * Juan de las Roelas, Seville-based painter (died 1625)
 * Gregorius Sickinger, Swiss painter, draughtsman, and engraver (died 1631)
 * Jan de Wael I, Flemish painter of the Baroque period (died 1633)
 * probable
 * Belisario Corenzio, Italian Mannerist painter (died 1643)
 * Chen Jiru, Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher during the Ming Dynasty (died 1639)

Deaths

 * January 24 - Gerlach Flicke, German limner and portrait painter working in London
 * August 15 - Paul Lautensack, Germain painter and musician (born 1478)
 * date unknown - Scipione Sacco, Italian painter of the Renaissance active in Cesena (born 1495)
 * probable
 * (died 1555/1558): Giovanni Francesco Caroto, Italian painter active in Verona (born 1480)
 * (died 1555/1558): Benedetto Montagna, Italian engraver (born 1481)