1564 in art

Events from the year 1564 in art.

Events

 * February 18 – Michelangelo dies aged 88 in Rome leaving the Rondanini Pietà unfinished.

Paintings

 * Pieter Bruegel the Elder
 * The Adoration of the Kings
 * The Procession to Calvary

Births

 * June 11 - Joseph Heintz the Elder, Swiss painter, draftsman and architect (died 1609)
 * September 13 - Vincenzo Giustiniani, art collector, patron of Caravaggio (died 1637)
 * November - Francisco Pacheco, Spanish painter and writer on painting (died 1644)
 * date unknown
 * Zeng Jing, Chinese painter during the Ming Dynasty (died 1647)
 * Bartolomé González y Serrano, Spanish Baroque portrait painter (died 1627)
 * Hans Rottenhammer, German painter (died 1625)
 * probable
 * Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Flemish Renaissance painter (died 1636)
 * Crispijn van de Passe the Elder, Dutch publisher and engraver (died 1637)

Deaths

 * February 18 – Michelangelo, Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet (born 1475)
 * date unknown
 * Domenico Campagnola, Italian painter and engraver of the Renaissance period (born c.1500); he was a pupil of his father, the painter Giulio Campagnola.
 * Cesare da Bagno, Italian sculptor and medallist (born 1530)
 * Jakob Woller, German sculptor (born 1510)