# 1578 in art

Events from the year 1578 in art.

## Events

* March 8 - On the death of Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Küstrin, her husband, Margrave George Frederick I of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach commissions a monument by Willem van Bloche.

## Works

* George Gower – Lady Philippa Coningsby
* Cornelis Ketel – Portraits
** Richard Goodricke of Ribston
** Thomas Pead

## Births

* March 17 – Francesco Albani, Italian painter (died 1660)
* August 10 – Matteo Rosselli, Italian painter of historical paintings in the late Florentine and early Baroque (died 1650)
* October 12 – Baldassare Aloisi, Italian portrait painter and engraver (died 1638)
* date unknown
** Jan Baptist Barbé, Flemish engraver (died 1649)
** Battistello Caracciolo, Italian painter (died 1635)
** Agostino Ciampelli, Italian fresco painter (died 1640)
** Adam Elsheimer, German "cabinet" painter (died 1610)
** Fede Galizia, Italian still life painter (died 1630)
** Ottavio Leoni, Italian painter and printmaker (died 1630)
** Francisco Lopez Caro, Spanish painter (died 1662)
** Bartolomeo Schedoni, Italian painter (died 1615)
** Jean Toutin, French enamel worker, one of the first artists to make enamel portrait miniatures (died 1644)
** Alessandro Turchi, Italian painter (died 1649)
** Hieronymus Francken II, Flemish painter (d. unknown)
** Francesco Stringa, Italian court painter for Duke Ranuccio I Farnese (died 1615)
* probable
** Guy François, French painter (died 1650)
** Iwasa Matabei, Japanese painter (died 1650)
** Pieter Neeffs I, Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in architectural interiors of churches (died 1656)
** Gerrit van Bloclant, Dutch Renaissance painter (died 1650)

## Deaths

* January 5 – Giulio Clovio, Croatian illustrator and miniaturist (born 1498)
* February 5 – Giovanni Battista Moroni, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1520/1524)
* March 17 - Cornelis Cort, Dutch engraver and draughtsman (born 1533)
* August 28 - Giovanni Battista Zelotti, Italian painter (born 1526)
* October 13 - Jean Bullant, French sculptor and architect (born 1515)
* Date unknown
** Pierre Lamo, Italian history painter
** Bernardino Lanini, Italian Renaissance painter active mainly in Milan (born 1511) (probable date)
** Benedetto Pagni, Italian painter
** Qian Gu, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (born c.1508) (approximate date)
** Raffaellino da Reggio, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1550)

## Footnotes

* ↑ Puglisi, Catherine; Francesco Albani (1999). Francesco Albani. Yale University Press.
* ↑ "Rosselli, Matteo". artnet. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
* ↑ Knight, Charles (1856). The English Cyclopædia: A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volume 3. Bradbury & Evans.
* ↑ "Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, called Battistello Caracciolo (Naples 1578-1635)". Galerie Canesso. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
* ↑ "Agostino Ciampelli (Italian, 1578-1640)". artnet. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
* ↑ Pioch, Nicolas (14 July 2002). "Elsheimer, Adam". WebMuseum. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
* ↑ Hedges, Elaine; Ingrid Wendt (1980). In Her Own Image: Women Working in the Arts. Feminist Press. p. 54. ISBN 0-912670-62-2.
* ↑ "British Museum - Ottavio Leoni, Self-portrait, an engraving". Trustees of the British Museum. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
* ↑ "Bartolomeo Schedoni | artist | 1578 - 1615 | The National Gallery, London". The National Gallery. Retrieved 10 July 2010.
* ↑ Littleton; Marshall Cavendish Corporation (2005). Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology, Volume 1. Marshall Cavendish. p. 1078. ISBN 0-7614-7559-1.
* ↑ "Hieronymus Francken II (Flemish, 1578-1623)". The Walters Art Museum. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 10 July 2010.
* ↑ "British Museum - Iwasa Matabei, Monk Mongaku, from Heike Monogatari ('Tale of the Heike')". Trustees of the British Museum. Retrieved 10 July 2010.