1575 in art

Events from the year 1575 in art.

Events

 * June - The bronze fauns on Bartolommeo Ammanati's Fountain of Neptune in Florence are completed.
 * Approximate date - Lavinia Fontana begins her career in Bologna as the first female career artist in Western Europe.

Works

 * Alessandro Allori - Christ and the Samaritan Woman (Altarpiece for Basilica of Santa Maria Novella, Florence; now Prato)
 * Federico Barocci - Madonna and Child with the Infant John the Baptist and St Joseph (Madonna with the Cat) (approximate date; National Gallery, London)
 * Lavinia Fontana - Monkey Child (her earliest known work; now lost)
 * Titian - Saint Jerome in Penitence
 * Paolo Veronese - Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine
 * Jacopo Zucchi – The Assembly of the Gods
 * -  The Darley Portrait
 *  The Phoenix Portrait

Births

 * November 4 – Guido Reni, Italian painter (died 1642)
 * date unknown
 * Hendrick van Balen, Flemish painter from Antwerp (died 1632)
 * Giovanni Andrea Donducci, Italian painter of the Bolognese School (painting) (died 1655)
 * Marcello Provenzale, Italian painter and mosaicist (died 1639)
 * Tommaso Salini, Italian painter of still life (died 1625)
 * Abraham van Blijenberch, Flemish painter (died 1624)
 * probable
 * Jacques Bellange, French artist and printmaker from Lorraine (died 1616)
 * Orazio Borgianni, Italian painter and etcher of the Mannerist and early-baroque periods (died 1616)
 * Bartolomé de Cárdenas, Spanish painter (died 1628)
 * Domenico Falcini, Flemish Renaissance painter and engraver (died 1632)
 * Floris van Dyck, Dutch still life painter (died 1651)
 * (born 1575/1580) Tanzio da Varallo, Italian painter of the late-Mannerist or early Baroque period (died 1632/1633)
 * (born 1575/1580) Gillis d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter who worked in a Flemish style (died 1638)
 * (born 1575/1580) Abraham van der Doort, Dutch-born artist and curator (died 1640)

Deaths

 * June 2 – Pieter Aertsen, Dutch painter (born 1508)
 * October 8 - Jan Matsys, Flemish painter (born c.1510)
 * October 20 - Cornelis Floris de Vriendt, Flemish sculptor and architect (born 1514)
 * November - Corneille de Lyon, Dutch painter (born 1505)
 * December 29 - Giovanni Battista Scultori, Italian painter, sculptor and engraver (born 1503)
 * date unknown
 * Wen Boren, Chinese landscape painter of the Ming Dynasty (born 1502)
 * Federico Brandani, Italian sculptor and stuccoist who worked in an urbane Mannerist style as a court artist (born 1522/1525)
 * Lodovico Lombardo, Italian sculptor (born c.1507)
 * Giuseppe Porta, Italian painter active mainly in Venice (born 1520)