1559 in art

Events from the year 1559 in art.

Events

 * Francesco Primaticcio and his assistants complete painting the Salle d'Hercule at the Palace of Fontainebleau (begun in the 1530s).
 * Sidsel Ulfstand and others complete the tapestry in the great hall of the Danish royal palace.

Works

 * Pieter Bruegel the Elder
 * The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
 * Netherlandish Proverbs
 * Luca Cambiaso – Resurrected Christ
 * Titian
 * The Entombment
 * St Margaret and the Dragon

Births

 * January 26 - Francesco Bassano the Younger, painter (died 1592)
 * September 12 - Cigoli, Italian painter and architect of the late Mannerist period (died 1613)
 * date unknown
 * Francesco Cavazzoni, Italian painter and art historian (died 1612)
 * Orazio Farinati, Italian Mannerist painter (died 1616)
 * Domenico Passignano, Italian painter of a late-Renaissance or Counter-Maniera (Counter-Mannerism) style (died 1636)
 * Kanō Sanraku, Japanese painter (died 1635)
 * probable
 * Jan Vermeyen, Dutch goldsmith of the Renaissance Mannerism (died 1606)

Deaths

 * September 6 - Benvenuto Tisi (Il Garofalo), late-RenaissanceMannerist Italian painter of the School of Ferrara (born 1481)
 * November 5 - Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter (born 1476)
 * date unknown
 * Giovanni da Nola, Italian sculptor and architect (born 1478)
 * Nicolas Denisot, French Renaissance poet and painter (born 1515)
 * Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, Dutch Northern Renaissance painter (born 1500)
 * Wen Zhengming, Ming Dynasty painter, calligrapher, and scholar (born 1470)
 * probable - Juste de Juste, Franco-Italian sculptor and printmaker in etching (born 1505)