title: 1576 in art
text: # 1576 in art
  
  Events from the year 1576 in art.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Lavinia Fontana - Christ with the Symbols of the Passion
  * Wen Jia – Landscape in the Spirit of the Verses of Du Fu
  
  ## Births
  
  * 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)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 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)
  