1583 in art

Events from the year 1583 in art.

Events

 * Italian Jesuit painter Giovanni Niccolo is sent to Portuguese Japan to found a painters' seminary.

Works

 * Bartolomeo Passarotti – The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (painted for chapel of Gabella Grossa, Bologna; now in Pinacotheca there)
 * Annibale Carracci – Crucifixion
 * Lavinia Fontana – Newborn Baby in a Crib (approximate date)
 * Joseph Heintz – Venus and Adonis
 * Quentin Metsys the Younger – The Sieve Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I of England

Sculptures

 * Giambologna – Venus After the Bath
 * Germain Pilon – Effigies of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici in coronation dress

Births

 * date unknown
 * Alessandro Bardelli, Italian painter (died 1633)
 * Paolo Biancucci, Italian painter primarily of religious scenes (died 1653)
 * Antonio Carracci, Italian painter (died 1618)
 * Nicolaes de Giselaer, Dutch painter and draughtsman (died 1654)
 * Pieter Lastman, Dutch painter (died 1633)
 * Juan de Mesa, Spanish sculptor (died 1627)
 * Astolfo Petrazzi, Italian painter, active mainly in his native Siena (died 1653/1665)
 * Giovanni Valesio, Italian painter and engraver from Bologna (died 1633)
 * Hendrik van der Borcht the elder, engraver (died 1651)
 * probable
 * Hendrik Goudt, Dutch painter (died 1648)
 * Jan Porcellis, Dutch marine artist (died 1632)
 * Jan Pynas, Dutch Baroque painter (died 1631)

Deaths

 * March 24 - Hubert Goltzius, Dutch painter, engraver and printer (born 1526)
 * June 8 - Matthijs Bril, landscape fresco painter who worked in Rome (born 1550)
 * October 30 – Pirro Ligorio, Italian architect, painter, antiquarian and garden designer (born 1510)
 * December 23 – Nicolás Factor, Spanish painter (born 1520)
 * date unknown
 * Orazio Alfani, Italian painter (born 1510)
 * Lorenzo Costa the Younger, Italian painter (born 1537)
 * Wen Jia, Chinese painter of landscapes and flowers (born 1501)
 * Marco Pino, Italian painter of the Renaissance and Mannerist period (born 1521)
 * Martino Rota, engraver and printmaker (born 1520)
 * probable
 * Jean Court, enamel painter (born 1511)
 * Melchior Lorck, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker of Danish-German origin (born 1526/1527)