1571 in art
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- September 29 – CaravaggioCaravaggioMichelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque...
, ItalianItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
painter and one of the first great representatives of the Baroque schoolBaroqueThe Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
(d. 16101610 in art-Works:*Caravaggio**The Denial of Saint Peter**John the Baptist **The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula**David with the Head of Goliath-Births:...
) - Antiveduto GrammaticaAntiveduto GrammaticaAntiveduto Grammatica was a proto-Baroque Italian painter, active near Rome.Grammatica was born in either Siena or Rome. According to Giovanni Baglione the artist was given the name Antiveduto because his father had a premonition that he would be soon be born during a journey between his native...
– proto-BaroqueBaroqueThe Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
ItalianItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
painter nicknamed Antiveduto ("foreseen") (d. 16261626 in art-Works:*Rembrandt**The Angel and the Prophet Balaam**Consul Cerialis and the Germanic Legions**A Musical Gathering**The Rest on the Flight to Egypt **Tobit and Anna with the Kid-Births:...
) - Paulus MoreelsePaulus MoreelsePaulus Moreelse was a Dutch painter, mainly of portraits.-Life:Moreelse was born and died in Utrecht. He was a pupil of the Delft portrait painter Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, who had himself been a pupil of Anthonie van Blocklandt. He took a study-trip to Italy, where he received many portrait...
– Dutch painter, mainly of portraits (d. 16381638 in art-Events:*Francisco Zurbarán begins work on the series of paintings in the Santa María de Guadalupe-Works:*Gian Lorenzo Bernini – Bust of Thomas Baker*Nicolas Poussin – Les Bergers d'Arcadie*Rembrandt – Stormy Landscape...
) - Jan Harmensz. MullerJan Harmensz. MullerJan Harmensz. Muller was a Flemish engraver, draughtsman and painter.Muller was born in Amsterdam. His father was a book printer, engraver and publisher. He learned the engraving trade while working at the family business. He traveled and lived in Italy for a time...
– Dutch painter (d. 16281628 in art-Events:*February – Gerrit Dou becomes a pupil of Rembrandt; the latter, then 22 years of age, paints a cheerful self-portrait, which will be sold 380 years later, in 2008, for 4 and a half million dollars....
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Deaths
- February 13 – Benvenuto CelliniBenvenuto CelliniBenvenuto Cellini was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, painter, soldier and musician, who also wrote a famous autobiography. He was one of the most important artists of Mannerism.-Youth:...
, Italian artist (born 15001500 in art-Events:* Sandro Botticelli begins painting of Adoration of the Christ Child as a tondo , oil on panel.-Painting:* Hieronymus Bosch – The Temptation of St...
) - Hans AsperHans AsperHans Asper was a Swiss painter.He lived his entire life in Zurich. Nothing is known of his life until 1526, when he married the daughter of Ludwig Nöggi, a master carpenter who sat in the city council, and his first artwork dates only from 1531...
, Swiss painter (born 1499) - Niccolo dell'AbbateNiccolò dell'AbbateNicolò dell' Abate, sometimes Niccolò, was an Italian painter and decorator. He was of the Emilian school, and was part of the staff of artists called the School of Fontainebleau that introduced the Italianate Renaissance to France.-Biography:Niccolò dell'Abbate was born in Modena, the son of a...
– Italian ManneristMannerismMannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but Northern Mannerism continued into the early 17th century throughout much of Europe...
painter and decorator, of the EmiliaEmilia (region of Italy)Emilia is a historical region of northern Italy which approximately corresponds to the western and north-eastern portions of today’s Emilia-Romagna region...
n school (born 1509/15121509 in art-Painting:* Raphael – Stanza della Segnatura – fresco Vatican Palace, Rome* Fra Bartolomeo – The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, with St. John the Baptist – Getty Museum* Gerard David – "The Virgin among angels and saint" is painted-Births:...
) - Maso da San FrianoMaso da San FrianoMaso da San Friano was an Italian painter active in Florence. His real name was Tomaso D'Antonio Manzuoli. He was born in San Friano and died in Florence....
– Italian painter active in FlorenceFlorenceFlorence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
(b. 15361536 in art-Painting:* Bramantino – The Flight into Egypt * Hans Holbein – Henry VIII* Titian – La Belle-Births:...
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