1572 in art

Events from the year 1572 in art.

Works

 * Giuseppe Arcimboldo – Summer
 * Federico Barocci – Portrait of Francisco II della Rovere (Uffizi)
 * Lucas de Heere (attributed) – The Family of Henry VIII, an Allegory of the Tudor Succession (approximate date)
 * Nicholas Hilliard - Portrait miniature and (approximate date) Pelican Portrait of Elizabeth I of England
 * Paolo Veronese
 * Allegory of the Battle of Lepanto (approximate date)
 * Feast of St Gregory the Great

Births

 * date unknown
 * Jan Antonisz van Ravesteyn, painter of the Dutch court in The Hague (died 1657)
 * Fabrizio Boschi, Italian painter of the early-Baroque period, active in Florence (died 1642)
 * Barend van Someren, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1632)
 * probable
 * Giovanni Bernardino Azzolini or Mazzolini or Asoleni, Italian painter (died 1645)

Deaths

 * March 5 - Giulio Campi, Italian painter and architect (born 1500)
 * November 23 – Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian artist and poet (born 1503)
 * December 22 - François Clouet, French Renaissance miniaturist and painter (born 1510)
 * date unknown
 * Mir Sayyid Ali, Persian illustrator and painter (born 1510)
 * Mirabello Cavalori, Italian painter mainly active in Florence (born 1520)
 * Danese Cattaneo – Italian sculptor (born 1509)
 * probable - Jean Goujon, French sculptor and architect during the French Renaissance (born c.1510)