1586 in art

Events from the year 1586 in art.

Events

 * Flemish refugee Adam van Noort is commissioned by the County of the City of Coventry to produce a painting of local heroine Lady Godiva.

Works

 * Anonymous – Portrait of Sir Henry Unton
 * Giuseppe Arcimboldo – An Allegory of Death
 * Federico Barocci – Vocation of Saints Peter and Andrew (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium)
 * Hieronimo Custodis – Edward Talbot
 * El Greco – The Burial of the Count of Orgaz

Births

 * date unknown
 * Giovanni Stefano Marucelli, Italian painter and architect active mainly in Tuscany (died 1646)
 * Orazio Riminaldi, Italian Caravaggisti painter of the Baroque period (died 1631)
 * Tiberio Tinelli, Italian painter of portraits of aristocracy, merchants, and intellectuals in Venice (died 1638)
 * Luis Tristán, Spanish painter (died 1624)
 * probable
 * Massimo Stanzione, Italian Caravaggisti Baroque painter of frescoes (died 1656)
 * Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (died 1647)

Deaths

 * January 25 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter and wood-engraver (born 1515)
 * May 9 - Luis de Morales, Spanish painter (born 1510)
 * date unknown
 * Francesco Camilliani, Italian sculptor (born 1530)
 * Pedro Campaña, Flemish painter (born 1503)
 * Giovanni Battista Maganza, Italian religious painter (born c.1513)
 * Matthias Zündt, German engraver (born 1496)