1551 in art
The year 1551 in art involved some significant events and new works.
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Events
- Cristóvão Lopes succeeds his father Gregório Lopes as the royal painter of King John III of Portugal
Paintings
- Pieter Aertsen – A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms
- Pietro Negroni – Madonna with Child in Glory and Saints Paul and Luke
- Titian – Philip II in Armour
- Caterina van Hemessen – Portrait of a Lady (approximate date; Bowes Museum)
Births
- March 9 - Alessandro Alberti, Italian painter (died 1596)
- April 30 - Jacopo da Empoli, Italian Mannerist painter (died 1640)
- Luigi Benfatto, Italian painter, nephew of Paolo Veronese (died 1611)
- Jacopo Chimenti, Italian late-mannerist painter (died 1640)
- Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter, in 1571 a student in the Bolognese painters’ guild (died 1629)
- Tiburzio Vergelli, Italian sculptor and founder (died 1609)
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- 1551/1552: John de Critz, Flemish portrait painter active in England (died 1642)
Deaths
- May 18 - Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter (born 1486)[1]
- July - Adriaen Isenbrandt, Flemish Northern Renaissance painter (born 1480-1490)[2]
- July 11 - Girolamo Genga, Italian painter and architect (born 1476)[3]
- date unknown
- Diego de Arroyo, Spanish miniature painter (born 1498)
- Nicolas Chantereine, French sculptor and architect (born c.1485)
- Étienne Peson, French "primitive" painter (born 1485)
- Shin Saimdang, Korean genre works painter and calligraphist (born 1504)
- Juan de Villoldo, Spanish religious painter (date of birth unknown)
References
- Encyclopaedia Britannica: A New Survey of Universal Knowledge. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1964. p. 350.
- National Gallery of Art (U.S.); John Oliver Hand; Washington National Gallery of Art; Martha Wolff (1986). Early Netherlandish Painting. Cambridge University Press. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-89468-093-9.
- Matthew Pilkington (1805). A Dictionary of Painters: From the Revival of the Art to the Present Period. John Crowder, Warwick-Square. p. 216.
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