1553 in art
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- Cherubino AlbertiCherubino AlbertiCherubino Alberti , also called Borghegiano, was an Italian engraver and painter.-Biography:Alberti was born in 1553 in Borgo San Sepolcro, Tuscany , into family of artists...
or Borghegiano, Italian engraver and painter (d. 16151615 in art-Births:*January 25 - Govert Flinck, painter of the Dutch Golden Age *June 20 - Salvator Rosa, Italian painter, poet and printmaker *date unknown**Georg Daniel Schultz, Dutch painter...
) - Jerónimo de Ayanz y BeaumontJerónimo de Ayanz y BeaumontJerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont . Spanish soldier, painter, musician and inventor. He is best remembered for the invention of a steam-powered water pump for draining mines, for which he was granted a patent by the Spanish monarchy in 1606.-References:*García Tapia, Nicolás, Un inventor navarro:...
– Spanish soldier, painter, musician and inventor (d. 16131613 in art-Births:*February 24 – Mattia Preti, Italian Baroque artist who worked in Italy and Malta *March 12 - André Le Nôtre, landscape architect *April 7 – Gerrit Dou , Dutch painter , pupil of Rembrandt* date unknown...
) - Juan Pantoja de la CruzJuan Pantoja de la CruzJuan Pantoja de La Cruz Spanish painter, one of the best representatives of the Spanish school of court painters. He worked for Philip II and Philip III. The Museo del Prado contains examples of his severe portraiture style.- Life :Juan Pantoja de La Cruz was, born 1553 in Valladolid...
, Spanish painter (d. 16081608 in art-Paintings:*Caravaggio**The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist**Portrait of Fra Antonio Martelli**Sleeping Cupid**John the Baptist **Annunciation**Burial of St. Lucy-Births:...
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Deaths
- Augustin HirschvogelAugustin HirschvogelAugustin Hirschvogel was a German artist, mathematician, and cartographer known primarily for his etchings. His thirty-five small landscape etchings, made between 1545 and 1549, assured him a place in the Danube School, a circle of artists in sixteenth-century Bavaria and Austria.- Life :He began...
– German artist, mathematician, and cartographer known primarily for his etchingEtchingEtching is the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal...
s (b. 15031503 in art-Events:* Leonardo Da Vinci begins painting the Mona Lisa* Giuliano Bugiardini joins the painter's guild in Florence-Painting:* Raphael – Madonna and Child* Filippino Lippi – Marriage of St. Catherine...
) - Wolf HuberWolf HuberWolf Huber was an Austrian painter, printmaker, and architect, a leading member of the Danube School.-Life:Records show that Huber was born in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, but that by 1515 he was living in Passau. His relationship with other painters of that name living in Feldkirch is unknown,...
– AustriaAustriaAustria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, printmaker, and architectArchitectAn architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
, a leading member of the Danube SchoolDanube schoolThe Danube School or Donau School is the name of a circle of painters of the first third of the 16th century in Bavaria and Austria . Many also were innovative printmakers, usually in etching...
(b. 1485) - Lucas Cranach the ElderLucas Cranach the ElderLucas Cranach the Elder , was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving...
– GermanGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
and printmaker in woodcutWoodcutWoodcut—occasionally known as xylography—is a relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed, typically with gouges...
and engravingEngravingEngraving is the practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing...
(b. 1472)