1566 in art

Events from the year 1566 in art.

Events

 * August 10 - Beeldenstorm: At the end of a pilgrimage from Hondschoote to Steenvoorde, the chapel of the Sint-Laurensklooster is defaced by a crowd. It is the start of a period of several weeks of violent iconoclasm in which paintings and church decorations and fittings are destroyed throughout the Low Countries.
 * Pieter Bruegel the Elder begins painting The Massacre of the Innocents (1566-1567).
 * Giuseppe Arcimboldo returns to the Italian city-states.
 * An epitaph to Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen, designed by Sigmund Linger, is erected in the St. Giles Chapel of the St. John's Church in Schleusingen.

Paintings

 * Giuseppe Arcimboldo
 * The Jurist
 * The Librarian (approximate date)
 * Water or Fish (The Four Elements; Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
 * Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Census at Bethlehem
 * Antoine Caron - The Massacres of the Triumvirate
 * Hans Eworth - Nicholas Heath, Archbishop of York
 * Paolo Veronese - altarpiece of Jesus' baptism, at the cathedral of Lignano Sabbiadoro

Births

 * January 15 - Philipp Uffenbach, German painter and etcher (died 1636)
 * date unknown
 * Giovanni Baglione, Italian early baroque painter and historian of art (died 1643)
 * Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch painter and printmaker (died 1651)
 * Domenico Carpinoni, Italian painter of primarily religious works (died 1658)
 * Johann Matthias Kager, German painter (died 1634)
 * Santo Peranda, a historical painter of Venice (died 1638)
 * Joachim Wtewael, Dutch painter and engraver (died 1638)

Deaths

 * April 4 - Daniele da Volterra, Italian mannerist painter and sculptor (born c.1509)
 * April 16 - Juan Correa de Vivar, Spanish Renaissance (Renacimiento) painter (born c.1510)
 * August - Lambert Lombard, Flemish Renaissance painter, architect and theorist for the Prince-Bishopric of Liège (born 1505)
 * August 4 - Girolamo della Robbia, Italian ceramicist (born 1488)
 * date unknown
 * Ahmed Karahisari, Ottoman calligrapher (born 1468)
 * probable
 * Niccolò Boldrini, Italian engraver (born c.1500)
 * Girolamo Romanino, Italian painter (born c.1485)
 * Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Flemish Northern Renaissance painter (born c.1500)