title: 1558 in art
text: # 1558 in art
  
  Events from the year 1558 in art.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Benvenuto Cellini begins writing his influential autobiography, focusing not only on his life but on his goldsmith's art, sculpture, and design.
  * Juan Bautista Vázquez the Elder returns to Avila to complete the altarpiece at the Monastery of Santa Maria de las Cuevas, left unfinished by Isidro de Villoldo.
  
  ## Paintings
  
  * Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
  * Pierre Reymond – Tazza: Scene from the Book of Proverbs
  * Domenico Campagnola – Callisto's Transformation into a Bear after Giving Birth to Arcas
  * Tintoretto – Saint George and the Dragon
  * Titian - Crucifixion
  * Paolo Veronese – Assumption of the Virgin
  
  ## Births
  
  * January (or February) Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and painter (died 1617)
  * December 3 - Gregorio Pagani, Italian painter active mainly in Florence (died 1605)
  * date unknown
     * Giovanni Alberti, Italian painter (died 1601)
     * Baldassare Croce, Italian academic painter and director of the Accademia di San Luca (died 1628)
     * Honami Kōetsu, Japanese craftsman, founder of the Rinpa school (died 1637)
     * Dirk Pietersz, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1621)
     * Juan de las Roelas, Seville-based painter (died 1625)
     * Gregorius Sickinger, Swiss painter, draughtsman, and engraver (died 1631)
     * Jan de Wael I, Flemish painter of the Baroque period (died 1633)
  * probable
     * Belisario Corenzio, Italian Mannerist painter (died 1643)
     * Chen Jiru, Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher during the Ming Dynasty (died 1639)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 24 - Gerlach Flicke, German limner and portrait painter working in London
  * August 15 - Paul Lautensack, Germain painter and musician (born 1478)
  * date unknown - Scipione Sacco, Italian painter of the Renaissance active in Cesena (born 1495)
  * probable
     * (died 1555/1558): Giovanni Francesco Caroto, Italian painter active in Verona (born 1480)
     * (died 1555/1558): Benedetto Montagna, Italian engraver (born 1481)
  