1578 in art

Events from the year 1578 in art.

Events

 * March 8 - On the death of Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Küstrin, her husband, Margrave George Frederick I of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach commissions a monument by Willem van Bloche.

Works

 * George Gower – Lady Philippa Coningsby
 * Cornelis Ketel – Portraits
 * Richard Goodricke of Ribston
 * Thomas Pead

Births

 * March 17 – Francesco Albani, Italian painter (died 1660)
 * August 10 – Matteo Rosselli, Italian painter of historical paintings in the late Florentine and early Baroque (died 1650)
 * October 12 – Baldassare Aloisi, Italian portrait painter and engraver (died 1638)
 * date unknown
 * Jan Baptist Barbé, Flemish engraver (died 1649)
 * Battistello Caracciolo, Italian painter (died 1635)
 * Agostino Ciampelli, Italian fresco painter (died 1640)
 * Adam Elsheimer, German "cabinet" painter (died 1610)
 * Fede Galizia, Italian still life painter (died 1630)
 * Ottavio Leoni, Italian painter and printmaker (died 1630)
 * Francisco Lopez Caro, Spanish painter (died 1662)
 * Bartolomeo Schedoni, Italian painter (died 1615)
 * Jean Toutin, French enamel worker, one of the first artists to make enamel portrait miniatures (died 1644)
 * Alessandro Turchi, Italian painter (died 1649)
 * Hieronymus Francken II, Flemish painter (d. unknown)
 * Francesco Stringa, Italian court painter for Duke Ranuccio I Farnese (died 1615)
 * probable
 * Guy François, French painter (died 1650)
 * Iwasa Matabei, Japanese painter (died 1650)
 * Pieter Neeffs I, Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in architectural interiors of churches (died 1656)
 * Gerrit van Bloclant, Dutch Renaissance painter (died 1650)

Deaths

 * January 5 – Giulio Clovio, Croatian illustrator and miniaturist (born 1498)
 * February 5 – Giovanni Battista Moroni, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1520/1524)
 * March 17 - Cornelis Cort, Dutch engraver and draughtsman (born 1533)
 * August 28 - Giovanni Battista Zelotti, Italian painter (born 1526)
 * October 13 - Jean Bullant, French sculptor and architect (born 1515)
 * Date unknown
 * Pierre Lamo, Italian history painter
 * Bernardino Lanini, Italian Renaissance painter active mainly in Milan (born 1511) (probable date)
 * Benedetto Pagni, Italian painter
 * Qian Gu, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (born c.1508) (approximate date)
 * Raffaellino da Reggio, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1550)