Events from the year1556 in art.

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• Sofonisba Anguissola –Self-portrait at the easel
• Jan Sanders van Hemessen –The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant
• Paolo Veronese -Jupiter Hurling Thinderbolts at the Vices (Begun in 1554 - completed in 1556 - created for theSala dei Consiglio dei Dieci, of thePalazzo Ducale inVenice, now in the collection of theLouvre)

• August 16 -Bartolomeo Cesi, Italian painter of theBolognese School (died1629)
• October 24 -Giovanni Battista Caccini, Italian sculptor (died1613)
• date unknown
  • Giovanni Bizzelli, Italian painter (died1612)
  • Aurelio Lomi, Italian painter offrescoes (died1622)
  • Carlo Maderno, Italian sculptor (died1629)
  • Alessandro Maganza, Italian Mannerist painter (died1630)
  • Pietro Malombra,Italian painter (died1618)
  • Lazzaro Tavarone, Genoese painter (died1641)
• probable
  • Adrien de Vries, lateManneristsculptor born in theNetherlands (died1626)
  • Otto van Veen, painter,draughtsman, andhumanist (died1629)

• April -Cristofano Gherardi, Italian Mannerist painter (born1508)
• August 1 -Girolamo da Carpi, court painter and decorator to the Duke d'Este (born1501)
• date unknown
  • Luca Penni, Italian painter, member of theSchool of Fontainebleau (born1500)
  • Girolamo da Santa Croce, Italian Renaissance painter (born1480/1485)
• probable –Jan Mostaert, Haarlem painter (born1475)

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