1561 in art

Events from the year 1561 in art.

Events

 * Sculptors Bernhard and Arnold Abel are recorded as working at the Imperial Court in Vienna.
 * Juan Bautista Vázquez the Elder moves to Seville to complete an altarpiece, and remains there to work.
 * Michelangelo ceases work on the Pietà Firenze.

Works

 * Alessandro Allori – Portrait of a Young Man (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
 * Jacopo Bassano – The Journey of Jacob
 * Titian – Mary Magdalene
 * Paolo Veronese – Muse with a Lyre

Births

 * date unknown
 * Cornelis Danckerts de Ry, Dutch architect and sculptor (died 1634)
 * Johann Theodor de Bry, Flemish painter and engraver (died 1623)
 * Zacharias Dolendo, Dutch engraver (died 1601)
 * Antonio Mohedano, Spanish painter of the Renaissance period (died 1625)
 * Tobias Verhaecht, landscape painter and draughtsman in Italy and Antwerp (died 1631)
 * probable
 * Jan Collaert II, Flemish engraver and printmaker (died 1620)
 * Toussaint Dubreuil, French painter (died 1602)
 * Léonard Gaultier, French engraver (died 1641)
 * Adam van Noort, Flemish painter and draughtsman (died 1641)
 * Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Artist of the Tudor court, portraitist (died 1636)

Deaths

 * January 9- Luca Martini, Italian arts patron (born 1507
 * February - Roque Balduque, French sculptor (date of birth unknown)
 * March 4 - Lancelot Blondeel, Bruges-based Flemish painter (born 1498)
 * November 8 - Ippolito Costa, Italian painter (born 1506)
 * date unknown
 * Alonso Berruguete, Spanish painter, sculptor and architect (born 1488)
 * Simon Bening, miniature painter of the Ghent-Bruges school (born 1483)
 * Hans Bocksberger der Ältere, Austrian painter (born 1510)
 * Paul Dax, Austrian artist (born 1503)
 * Battista Franco Veneziano, Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker in etching (born c.1510)
 * probable
 * Erhard Altdorfer, German Early Renaissance printmaker, painter, and architect (born 1480)
 * Bernard Salomon, French painter, draftsman and engraver (born 1506)