1577 in art

Events from the year 1577 in art.

Events

 * El Greco moves from Rome to Spain, where he will spend the rest of his life.
 * The Accademia di San Luca is founded as an association of artists in Rome.

Works
Some dates approximate
 * Lavinia Fontana - Self-Portrait at the Clavichord Accompanied by a Handmaiden
 * El Greco - The Repentant Magdalen
 * Nicholas Hilliard - Portrait miniatures
 * The Duke of Alençon
 * Marguerite of Navarre
 * Self-portrait
 * Cornelis Ketel - Martin Frobisher

Births

 * March 20 - Alessandro Tiarini, Italian Baroque painter of frescoes, façade decorations, and altarpieces (died 1668)
 * June 28 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (died 1640)
 * July 21 - Adam Willaerts, Dutch painter (died 1664)
 * October 17 - Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (died 1621)
 * December 8 - Mario Minniti, Italian painter, also the model for Caravaggio's painting Boy with a Basket of Fruit  (died 1640)
 * date unknown
 * Eugenio Caxés, Spanish painter (died 1634)
 * Giacomo Cavedone, Italian painter of the Bolognese School (died 1660)
 * Giovanni Battista Crescenzi, Italian painter and architect (died 1635)
 * Aart Jansz Druyvesteyn, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1627)
 * Cornelis van der Geest, Dutch merchant and art collector (died 1638)

Deaths

 * February 17 - Giuliano Bugiardini, Italian painter (born 1475)
 * May - Richard Aertsz, Dutch historical painter (born 1482)
 * June 12 - Orazio Samacchini, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1532)
 * date unknown
 * Juan de Juni, French–Spanish sculptor (born 1507)
 * Léonard Limousin, French painter, member of Limoges enamel painter family (born 1505)
 * Guglielmo della Porta, Italian architect and sculptor (born c.1500)
 * Antonis Mor, Dutch portrait painter (born 1517)
 * Cristóbal Ramírez, painter and illuminator of manuscripts for King Philip II of Spain
 * Lorenzo Sabbatini, Italian painter (born 1530)
 * Michele Tosini, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1503)
 * probable - Gert van Groningen, Danish sculptor (date of birth unknown)