See also: 1526 in art, other events of 1527, 1528 in art, list of years in art. Events January 5 - Felix Manz, co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, was drowned in the Limmat River in Zürich by the Zürich Reformed state church. ... This page indexes the individual year in art pages. ...

Works

• Sir Thomas More - Hans Holbein

Hans Holbein is the name of two German Renaissance painters: Hans Holbein the Elder (1460-1524) Hans Holbein the Younger (c. ...

Births

• date unknown - Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter (d. 1593)
• date unknown - Luca Cambiasi, Italian painter, (d. 1585)

Self-portrait Vertemnus, a portrait of Rudolf II Winter, 1573 Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527 in Milan, Italy - 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books -- that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas... Events May 18 - Playwright Thomas Kyds accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe. ... Luca Cambiasi (1527-1585), Genoese painter, familiarly known as Lucchetto da Genova (his surname is written also Cambiaso or Cangiagio), was born at Moneglia in the Genoese state, the son of a painter named Giovanni Cambiasi. ... 1585 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. ...

Deaths

• date unknown - Cristoforo Solari, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1460)