Giuseppe Arcimboldo – Summer
Federico Barocci – Portrait of Francisco II della Rovere (Uffizi)
Lucas de Heere (attributed) – The Family of Henry VIII, an Allegory of the Tudor Succession (approximate date)
Nicholas Hilliard - Portrait miniature and (approximate date) "Pelican" portrait of Elizabeth I of England
Paolo Veronese
Allegory of the Battle of Lepanto (approximate date)
Feast of St Gregory the Great
date unknown
Jan Antonisz van Ravesteyn, painter of the Dutch court in The Hague (died 1657)
Fabrizio Boschi, Italian painter of the early-Baroque period, active in Florence (died 1642)
Barend van Someren, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1632)
probable
Giovanni Bernardino Azzolini or Mazzolini or Asoleni, Italian painter (died 1645)
March 5 - Giulio Campi, Italian painter and architect (born 1500)
November 23 – Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian artist and poet (born 1503)
December 22 - François Clouet, French Renaissance miniaturist and painter (born 1510)
date unknown
Mir Sayyid Ali, Persian illustrator and painter (born 1510)
Mirabello Cavalori, Italian painter mainly active in Florence (born 1520)
Danese Cattaneo – Italian sculptor (born 1509)
probable - Jean Goujon, French sculptor and architect during the French Renaissance (born c.1510)
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