1563 in art

Events from the year 1563 in art.

Events

 * January 13 – The Accademia e Compagnia delle Arti del Disegno ("Academy and company of the arts of drawing") is established in Florence by Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, under the influence of Giorgio Vasari.
 * December 4 – The Council of Trent issues a decree on the proper function of Roman Catholic art.
 * date unknown - The Medici court astronomer Fra Ignazio Danti paints 57 maps at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.

Paintings

 * Giuseppe Arcimboldo paints his first The Four Seasons series.
 * Pieter Brueghel the Elder paints Adoration of the Magi in a Winter Landscape, Landscape with the Flight into Egypt and The Tower of Babel.
 * Niccolò Circignani paints the Concert in the Government Room of the Città della Pieve in Umbria.
 * Lucas de Heere paints a portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots.
 * Giovanni Battista Moroni paints The Count Pietro Secco Suardo.
 * Francesco Primaticcio paints Odysseus and Penelope.
 * Bernaert de Rijckere paints a portrait diptych of Antwerp merchant Adriaan van Santvoort and his family.
 * Paolo Veronese completes painting The Wedding at Cana (1562-1563).

Births

 * June 4 - George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith, jeweler and philanthropist (died 1624)
 * date unknown
 * Grazio Cossali, Italian painter (died 1629)
 * Ercole dell'Abate, Italian painter (died 1618)
 * Benedetto Gennari, Italian painter of the early-Baroque period (died 1610)
 * Orazio Gentileschi, Italian Baroque Caravaggisti painter (died 1639)
 * Anton Möller, Polish painter (died 1611)
 * Heo Nanseolheon, Korean poet and painter (died 1589)
 * Francesco Vanni, Italian mannerist painter (died 1610)

Deaths

 * October 22 - Diego Siloe, Spanish Renaissance architect and sculptor (born 1490)
 * date unknown - Andrea Schiavone, Venetian Renaissance etcher and painter (born 1510/1515)