1560 in art

Events from the year 1560 in art.

Events

 * Giorgio Vasari begins work on the Uffizi in Florence for Cosimo I de' Medici as offices for the Florentine magistrates.

Works

 * Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Children's Games
 * Valerio Cioli - Fontana del Bacchino at the Boboli Gardens in Florence
 * Juan de Juanes – The Last Supper
 * Maso da San Friano – Visitation (altarpiece)
 * Antonis Mor – Portrait of the artist Jan van Scorel
 * Steven van der Meulen – Elizabeth Clinton
 * Karel van Mander – Prince Christian of Denmark

Births

 * June 25 – Juan Sánchez Cotán, Spanish painter (died 1626)
 * November 3 – Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (died 1609)
 * date unknown
 * Giovanni Balducci, also called Il Cosci, Italian mannerist painter (died 1600)
 * Bartolomeo Carducci, Italian painter (died 1608)
 * Wenceslas Cobergher, Flemish Renaissance architect, engineer, painter, antiquarian, numismatist and economist (died 1634)
 * Adriaen Collaert, Flemish engraver (died 1618)
 * Dominicus Custos, Flemish printer and copperplate engraver (died 1612)
 * Bartholomeus Dolendo, Dutch engraver (died unknown)
 * Giovanni Niccolo, Italian Jesuit painter (died 1626)
 * Diego Polo the Elder, Spanish painter (died 1600)
 * Claudio Ridolfi, Italian painter (died 1644)
 * Daniel Soreau, German still life painter (died 1619)
 * Antonio Viviani, Italian painter of frescoes (died 1620)
 * probable
 * Ludovico Buti, Italian painter active mostly in Florence (died 1611)
 * Baldassare d'Anna, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period (died 1639)
 * Paolo Camillo Landriani, Italian painter (died 1618)
 * Arent Passer, stonemason and architect (died 1637)
 * Marietta Robusti, Venetian painter of the Renaissance period (died 1590)
 * Fabrizio Santafede, Italian late-Mannerist painter (died 1635)
 * Domenico Tintoretto, Venetian painter, son of Jacopo Tintoretto (died 1635)
 * 1560/1561: Rafael Sadeler I, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family (died 1628/1632)

Deaths

 * February 7 – Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Florentine sculptor (born 1493)
 * date unknown
 * Antonio Badile, Italian painter from Verona (born 1518)
 * Giovanni Battista Caporali, Italian painter (born c.1476)
 * Francesco Vecellio, Venetian painter of the early Renaissance (born 1485), best known as the elder brother of the painter Titian.
 * probable
 * Hans Sebald Lautensack, German painter and etcher (born 1524)
 * Herri met de Bles, Flemish Mannerist landscape painter (born c.1510)
 * Frans Mostaert, Flemish landscape painter (born 1428)
 * Heinrich Zell, German printer and cartographer (born unknown)