1585 in art

Events from the year 1585 in art.

Events

 * Approximate start date of Flemish Baroque painting.
 * March 3 - The Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, designed by Palladio, and completed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is opened, with trompe-l'œil scenery in one-point perspective.
 * The Eclectic Academy of painting, also called the Accademia degli Incamminati, is founded in Bologna by Ludovico Carracci and others.
 * French cardinal Matthieu Cointrel (Contarelli in Italian) dies, leaving an endowment and instructions for the decoration of the Contarelli Chapel in Rome.

Works

 * Pietro Francavilla – Saturn Devouring one of his Sons (sculpture)
 * El Greco
 * St. Dominic in Prayer
 * The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception and St. John
 * Nicholas Hilliard - Portrait miniature of Sir Walter Ralegh
 * Taddeo Landini - Statue of Pope Sixtus V (now destroyed)
 * Paolo Veronese - Lucretia
 * John White – Indian Village of Secoton
 *  The Ermine Portrait

Births

 * January - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (died 1634)
 * May 17 (bapt.) - Esaias van de Velde, Dutch landscape painter (died 1630)
 * June 28 - Sisto Badalocchio, Italian painter and engraver of the Bolognese School (died 1647)
 * July 7 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English art collector (died 1646)
 * August 25 - Giovanni Biliverti, Italian Mannerist painter (died 1644)
 * date unknown
 * Arent Arentsz, Dutch painter (died 1631)
 * Sir Nathaniel Bacon, English landowner and painter of kitchen and market scenes with large vegetables, fruit, and buxom maids (died 1627)
 * Boetius à Bolswert, Dutch engraver (died 1633)
 * Isaac Briot, French engraver and draughtsman (died 1670)
 * Angelo Caroselli, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1652)
 * Huang Daozhou, Chinese calligrapher, scholar and official of the Ming Dynasty (died 1646)
 * Lan Ying, Chinese painter of landscapes, human figures, flowers and birds during the Ming Dynasty (died 1664)
 * John Taylor, English portrait painter (died 1651)
 * Jacob van Geel, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1648)
 * Ottavio Vannini, Italian painter of altarpieces and churches, active mainly in Florence (died 1643)
 * Giuseppe Vermiglio, Caravaggisti painter from Northern Italy (died 1635)
 * Wen Zhenheng, Chinese Ming dynasty scholar, painter, and landscape garden designer (died 1645)

Deaths

 * September 6 - Luca Cambiasi, Italian painter (born 1527)
 * December 19 - Wenzel Jamnitzer, Northern Mannerist goldsmith, artist, and printmaker in etching (born 1507/1508)
 * date unknown
 * Giuseppe Marullo, Italian painter (date of birth unknown)
 * Adamo Scultori, Italian engraver (born 1530)
 * Francisco de Holanda, Portuguese humanist and painter (born 1517)
 * probable - Jacob de Backer, Flemish Mannerist painter and draughtsman (born 1555)