1555 in art

Overview of the events of 1555 in art

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Events from the year 1555 in art.

Events

Villa Giulia is completed, which now houses the National Etruscan Museum's collection of Etruscan civilization art and artifacts

Sofonisba Anguissola - Lucia, Minerva and Europa Anguissola Playing Chess
Cristofano Gherardi - Transfiguration (Cortona)
c. 1555 – Titian
- Venus with a Mirror
- Venus and Musician (Museo del Prado's second version)
c.1555 - Paolo Veronese - Venus Disarming Cupid^[1]
c. 1555-1560 – Illuminated tughra of Sultan Suleiman, from Istanbul, Turkey (now in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

April 21 – Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (died 1619)
date unknown
- Carlo Antonio Procaccini, Italian painter of still lifes and landscapes (died unknown)
- Dong Qichang, Chinese painter, scholar, calligrapher, and art theorist of the later period of the Ming dynasty (died 1636)
- Aegidius Sadeler I, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family (died 1609)
- Antonio Tempesta, Florentine painter and engraver, worked in Rome, influenced by Counter-Mannerism (died 1630)
- Giovanni Battista Trotti, Italian painter active mainly in his native city of Cremona (died 1612)
probable
- Jacob de Backer, Flemish Mannerist painter and draughtsman (died 1585)