1550 in art

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The year 1550 in art involved some significant events and new works.

Events[edit]

Antonis Mor is commissioned by Mary of Hungary to travel around Portugal and paint portraits of the Portuguese branch of her family.
Giorgio Vasari publishes Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori (The Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects) in Florence.

Paintings[edit]

Floris – Banquet of the Gods, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

Sofonisba Anguissola – Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola
Lucas Cranach the Elder – Self-portrait at 77
Frans Floris – Banquet of the Gods
Jan Mandijn – The Temptation of St. Anthony
Francesco de' Rossi – Portrait of a Young Man
Titian – Venus and Musician (Venus with an Organist and a Dog, Museo del Prado)

Births[edit]

April 18 - Alessandro Pieroni, Italian mannerist painter and architect (died 1607)
date unknown
- Cristoforo Augusta, Italian painter, pupil of Giovanni Battista Trotti (died 1600)
- Matthijs Bril, landscape painter of frescoes who worked in Rome (died 1583)
- Aert Pietersz, Dutch painter (died 1612)
- Jan Sadeler I, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family (died 1600)
probable
- Piermaria Bagnadore, Italian painter and architect of the late-Renaissance period (died 1627)
- Pier Angelo Basili, Italian painter born in Gubbio (died 1604)
- Pieter Bast, Dutch cartographer, engraver and draftsman (died 1605)
- Giovanni Paolo Cavagna, Italian painter, active mainly in Bergamo (died 1627)
- Giovanni Battista Cremonini, Italian painter of primarily frescoes (died 1610)
- Pedro de Bolduque, Spanish sculptor of Flemish origin (died 1595)
- Wendel Dietterlin, German painter/architect, author of a treatise on the five orders entitled Architectura (1598) filled with Mannerist ornament (died 1599)
- 1548/1550: Palma il Giovane, Italian Mannerist painter from Venice (died 1628)
- Marcin Kober, Polish court painter to King Stefan Batory (died 1598)
- Giovanni Paolo Lolmo, Italian painter (died 1593)
- Sampson Strong, Dutch-born portrait painter (died 1611)
- Nicolas van Houy, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1611)
- Hendrik van Steenwijk I, Dutch painter, earliest-known painter of architectural interiors (died 1603)
- Giovanni Vasanzio, Dutch-born architect, garden designer and engraver (died 1621)
- (born 1550/1551) Scarsellino, Italian painter, of the School of Ferrara (died 1620)
- Hans van Steenwinckel the Elder, Flemish/Danish sculptor and architect (died 1601)
- Đorđe Mitrofanović, Serbian portraitist, icon painter and muralist (died 1630)