1576 in art

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Events from the year 1576 in art.

Events

June 16 - Giovanni Battista Viola, Italian painter of landscape canvases (died 1622)
August - David Vinckboons, Dutch painter of Flemish origin (died 1632)
September 1 - Scipione Borghese, Italian art collector (died 1633)
date unknown
- Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (died 1646)
- Roelant Savery, Flanders-born Dutch baroque painter of the Golden Age (died 1633)
- Gregorio Fernández, Spanish sculptor Castilian school of sculpture (died 1636)
- Francisco Herrera the Elder, Spanish painter and founder of the Seville school for the arts (died 1656)
- Giovanni Battista Billoni, Italian painter born in Padua (died 1636)
- Leonello Spada, Italian Caravaggisti specializing in decorative quadratura painting (died 1622)
probable
- Cornelis Boel, Flemish draughtsman and engraver (died 1621)
- Pietro Paolo Bonzi, Italian painter, best known for his landscapes and still-lifes (died 1636)
- Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1633)

February 22 - Bernardino Gatti, Italian painter (born c.1495)
May 26 - Vincenzo Danti, Italian sculptor (born 1530)
August 27 – Titian, leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance (born 1485)
November 27 - Santi Buglioni, Italian sculptor (born 1494)
date unknown
- Pieter Claeissens the Elder, Flemish painter (born 1500)
- Aqa Mirak, Persian illustrator and painter (born unknown)
- Lorenzo Sabbatini, Italian Mannerist painter (born c.1530)
- Levina Teerlinc, Flemish miniaturist who served as a painter to the English court (born 1510/1520)
- Lu Zhi, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty (born c.1496)