1568 in art

Events from the year 1568 in art.

Events

 * A new, enlarged edition of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects is published, including a new section on Leonardo da Vinci.

Paintings

 * Pieter Bruegel the Elder
 * The Blind Leading the Blind
 * The Peasant Wedding
 * The Tower of Babel
 * El Greco – The Last Supper
 * Gian Paolo Lomazzo – Self-portrait

Births

 * January 20 - Ventura Salimbeni, Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker (died 1613)
 * March 16 - Juan Martínez Montañés, also known as el Dios de la Madera, Spanish sculptor (died 1649)
 * May 9 - Guglielmo Caccia called il Moncalvo, Italian painter who specialised in altar-pieces (died 1625)
 * date unknown
 * Alessandro Albini, Italian painter of the early Baroque period (died 1646)
 * Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (died 1625)
 * Giovanni Battista Calandra, Italian mosaic artist (died c.1644)
 * Vincenzo Carducci, Italian painter (died 1638)
 * Andrés de la Concha, Spanish painter (died unknown)
 * Adam van Vianen, Dutch Golden Age medallist, engraver and silversmith (died 1627)
 * probable
 * Giuseppe Cesari, known as the Cavaliere d'Arpino, Italian painter (died 1640)

Deaths

 * June 5 - Willem Key, Flemish painter (born 1515)
 * date unknown
 * Pierre Bontemps, French sculptor (born 1505)
 * Battista del Moro, Italian painter of the Renaissance period active in his native Verona (born 1512)
 * Lodovico Dolce, Italian art theorist (born 1508/1510)
 * Lucas Gassel, Flemish painter (born 1490)
 * Vincenzo Pagani, Italian painter (born 1490)
 * Luis de Vargas, Spanish painter (born 1502)
 * Wang Guxiang, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (born 1501)
 * 1568/1569 - Jacob Binck, German engraver and painter (born between 1490-1504)