1565 in art

Events from the year 1565 in art.

Events

 * September - Titian goes to Cadore to design decorations for the church at Pieve, which will be partly executed by his pupils.
 * Before December - Daniele da Volterra begins the work of overpainting nudity in the late Michelangelo's The Last Judgment (Sistine Chapel), earning himself the nickname Il Braghettone ("the breeches maker").

Paintings

 * Pieter Bruegel the Elder paints
 * the cycle of the seasons
 * The Hunters in the Snow (winter) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
 * The Gloomy Day (old beginning of the year in March) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
 * The Hay Harvest (early summer) in Nelahozeves (Czech Republic).
 * The Harvesters (late summer) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York.
 * The Return of the Herd (autumn) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
 * Winter Landscape with Skaters and Bird Trap.
 * Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery.
 * Lucas Cranach the Younger paints the Altarpiece of the Reformers in Dessau.
 * Sebastiano Filippi (Bastianino) paints Birth of the Virgin.
 * Tintoretto begins painting the cycle of the life of Christ (completed 1567), including Crucifixion, in the Sala dell'Albergo (Hall of the Hostel) at the Scuola di San Rocco in Venice.
 * Titian paints
 * The Penitent Magdalene.
 * Venus Blindfolding Cupid at about this date.
 * Giorgio Vasari paints the frescoes on the walls of the Palazzo Vecchio representing scenes of the Austrian Habsburg estates.
 * Paolo Veronese paints the Allegory of Virtue and Vice and Wisdom and Strength in Venice, Italy.

Births

 * May 15 - Hendrick de Keyser, Dutch sculptor and architect (died 1621)
 * June 2 - Francisco Ribalta, Spanish painter, mostly of religious subjects (died 1628)
 * date unknown
 * Bernardino Cesari, Italian painter (died 1621)
 * Camillo Mariani, Italian sculptor of the early Baroque (died 1611)
 * Konoe Nobutada, Momoyama period Japanese poet, calligrapher, painter and diarist (died 1614)
 * Isaac Oliver, French-born English portrait miniature painter (died 1617)
 * Jan Saenredam, Dutch engraver (died 1607)
 * Decio Termisani, Naples-born Italian painter (died 1600)
 * probable
 * Reza Abbasi, Persian miniaturist, painter and calligrapher of the Isfahan School (died 1635)
 * Achille Calici, Italian painter (died unknown)
 * Cheng Jiasui, Chinese landscape painter and poet during the Ming Dynasty (died 1643)
 * Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch painter and engraver (died 1629)

Deaths

 * date unknown
 * Antonio Begarelli ("Begarino"), Italian sculptor (born 1499)
 * Antonio Bernieri, Italian painter, pupil of Correggio (born 1516)
 * Bernardino Licinio, Italian painter (born c.1489)
 * Pietro Negroni, Italian painter (born c.1505)
 * Paolo Pino, Italian painter and art writer (born 1534)
 * Joseph Weiß, Germain painter (born c.1486)
 * probable - Garcia Fernandes, Portuguese Renaissance painter (born unknown)