Events from the year 1575 in art.

Events

• June - The bronze fauns on Bartolommeo Ammanati's Fountain of Neptune in Florence are completed.
• Approximate date - Lavinia Fontana begins her career in Bologna as the first female career artist in Western Europe.^[1]

Works

• Alessandro Allori - Christ and the Samaritan Woman (Altarpiece for Basilica of Santa Maria Novella, Florence; now Prato)
• Federico Barocci - Madonna and Child with the Infant John the Baptist and St Joseph (Madonna with the Cat) (approximate date; National Gallery, London)
• Lavinia Fontana - Monkey Child (her earliest known work; now lost)
• Titian - Saint Jerome in Penitence
• Paolo Veronese - Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine
• Jacopo Zucchi – The Assembly of the Gods
• - The Darley Portrait
  • The Phoenix Portrait

Births

• November 4 – Guido Reni, Italian painter (died 1642)
• date unknown
  • Hendrick van Balen, Flemish painter from Antwerp (died 1632)
  • Giovanni Andrea Donducci, Italian painter of the Bolognese School (painting) (died 1655)
  • Marcello Provenzale, Italian painter and mosaicist (died 1639)
  • Tommaso Salini, Italian painter of still life (died 1625)
  • Abraham van Blijenberch, Flemish painter (died 1624)
• probable
  • Jacques Bellange, French artist and printmaker from Lorraine (died 1616)
  • Orazio Borgianni, Italian painter and etcher of the Mannerist and early-baroque periods (died 1616)
  • Bartolomé de Cárdenas, Spanish painter (died 1628)
  • Domenico Falcini, Flemish Renaissance painter and engraver (died 1632)
  • Floris van Dyck, Dutch still life painter (died 1651)
  • (born 1575/1580) Tanzio da Varallo, Italian painter of the late-Mannerist or early Baroque period (died 1632/1633)
  • (born 1575/1580) Gillis d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter who worked in a Flemish style (died 1638)
  • (born 1575/1580) Abraham van der Doort, Dutch-born artist and curator (died 1640)

Deaths

• June 2 – Pieter Aertsen, Dutch painter (born 1508)^[2]
• October 8 - Jan Matsys, Flemish painter (born c.1510)
• October 20 - Cornelis Floris de Vriendt, Flemish sculptor and architect (born 1514)
• November - Corneille de Lyon, Dutch painter (born 1505)
• December 29 - Giovanni Battista Scultori, Italian painter, sculptor and engraver (born 1503)
• date unknown
  • Wen Boren, Chinese landscape painter of the Ming Dynasty (born 1502)
  • Federico Brandani, Italian sculptor and stuccoist who worked in an urbane Mannerist style as a court artist (born 1522/1525)
  • Lodovico Lombardo, Italian sculptor (born c.1507)
  • Giuseppe Porta, Italian painter active mainly in Venice (born 1520)