title: 1583 in art
text: # 1583 in art
  
  Events from the year 1583 in art.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Italian Jesuit painter Giovanni Niccolo is sent to Portuguese Japan to found a painters' seminary.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Bartolomeo Passarotti – The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (painted for chapel of Gabella Grossa, Bologna; now in Pinacotheca there)
  * Annibale Carracci – Crucifixion
  * Lavinia Fontana – Newborn Baby in a Crib (approximate date)
  * Joseph Heintz – Venus and Adonis
  * Quentin Metsys the Younger – The Sieve Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I of England
  
  ## Sculptures
  
  * Giambologna – Venus After the Bath
  * Germain Pilon – Effigies of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici in coronation dress
  
  ## Births
  
  * date unknown
     * Alessandro Bardelli, Italian painter (died 1633)
     * Paolo Biancucci, Italian painter primarily of religious scenes (died 1653)
     * Antonio Carracci, Italian painter (died 1618)
     * Nicolaes de Giselaer, Dutch painter and draughtsman (died 1654)
     * Pieter Lastman, Dutch painter (died 1633)
     * Juan de Mesa, Spanish sculptor (died 1627)
     * Astolfo Petrazzi, Italian painter, active mainly in his native Siena (died 1653/1665)
     * Giovanni Valesio, Italian painter and engraver from Bologna (died 1633)
     * Hendrik van der Borcht the elder, engraver (died 1651)
  * probable
     * Hendrik Goudt, Dutch painter (died 1648)
     * Jan Porcellis, Dutch marine artist (died 1632)
     * Jan Pynas, Dutch Baroque painter (died 1631)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * March 24 - Hubert Goltzius, Dutch painter, engraver and printer (born 1526)
  * June 8 - Matthijs Bril, landscape fresco painter who worked in Rome (born 1550)
  * October 30 – Pirro Ligorio, Italian architect, painter, antiquarian and garden designer (born 1510)
  * December 23 – Nicolás Factor, Spanish painter (born 1520)
  * date unknown
     * Orazio Alfani, Italian painter (born 1510)
     * Lorenzo Costa the Younger, Italian painter (born 1537)
     * Wen Jia, Chinese painter of landscapes and flowers (born 1501)
     * Marco Pino, Italian painter of the Renaissance and Mannerist period (born 1521)
     * Martino Rota, engraver and printmaker (born 1520)
  * probable
     * Jean Court, enamel painter (born 1511)
     * Melchior Lorck, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker of Danish-German origin (born 1526/1527)
  