Events

Works

Paintings

• Giovanni Battista Moroni - Portrait of a Man before the Virgin and Child
• Lattanzio Gambara - Apollo
• Daniele da Volterra - Massacre of the Innocents

Births

• Adam Willaerts - Dutch painter of the Baroque period (d. 1664)
• Agostino Carracci - Italian painter and printmaker (d. 1602)
• Leandro Bassano - Venetian artist and younger brother of Francesco Bassano the Younger (d. 1622)
• Pietro Tacca - Italian sculptor and follower of Giambologna (d. 1640)
• (b. 1557/1560): Benedetto Bandiera - Italian painter of the early-Baroque period (d. 1634)

Deaths

• Pontormo - Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine school (b. 1494)
• Giacomo Francia - Italian engraver (b. 1486)