1552 in art
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Events from the year 1552 in art.
Events
- date unknown â Spanish sculptor and architect Alonso Berruguete begins work on the hospital of St. John the Baptist in Toledo.[1]
Paintings
- Christoph Amberger â Portrait of Sebastian Münster[2]
- Bronzino â Portrait of the Dwarf Nano Morgante[3]
- Dirck Jacobsz. â A Group of Guardsmen
- Hans Mielich â Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria and his wife Anna of Austria playing chess
- Tintoretto â The Vision of St. Peter
- Giorgio Vasari â Allegory of Patience
Other works
- Altarpiece of the Iglesia de San Juan Bautista (Chiclana de la Frontera) by Roque Balduque and Andrés RamÃrez
- Pierino da Vinci â Samson Slaying a Philistine (sculpture - ca.)[4]
Births
- August 24 (bapt.) â Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (died 1614)[5]
- September 21 â Barbara Longhi, Italian painter (died 1638)[6]
- date unknown
- Hans von Aachen, German Mannerist painter (died 1615)
- Alessandro Casolano, Italian painter primarily working in Siena (died 1606)
- Daniël van den Queborn, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1602)
- Emanuel Sweert, Dutch painter (died 1612)
- probable
- Avanzino Nucci, Italian painter (died 1629)
- Cristoforo Roncalli, Italian painter (died 1626)
Deaths
- July 12 â Niccolò Soggi, Italian painter (born c.1480)[citation needed]
- date unknown
- Amico Aspertini, early leader of the Bolognese School of painting (born c.1474)[7]
- Peter Dell the Elder, German sculptor (born 1490)
- Lucas Cornelisz de Kock, Dutch painter at the Tudor court (born 1495)[8]
- Giovanni Antonio Lappoli, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1492)
- Qiu Ying, Chinese painter who specialized in the gongbi brush technique (born 1494)
- Wilhelm Stetter, German Renaissance painter (born 1487)