1575 in art

• June - The bronze fauns on Bartolommeo Ammanati's Fountain of Neptune in Florence are completed. • Approximate date - Lavinia Fontana begins her career in Bologna as the first female career artist in Western Europe. ==Works==

– The Assembly of the Gods, private collection • Alessandro Allori - Christ and the Samaritan Woman (Altarpiece for Basilica of Santa Maria Novella, Florence; now Prato) • Federico Barocci - Madonna and Child with the Infant John the Baptist and St Joseph (Madonna with the Cat) (approximate date; National Gallery, London) • Lavinia Fontana - Monkey Child (her earliest known work; now lost) • Titian - Saint Jerome in Penitence • Paolo Veronese - Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine • Jacopo Zucchi – The Assembly of the Gods • - The Darley Portrait • The Phoenix Portrait ==Births==

• November 4 – Guido Reni, Italian painter (died 1642) • date unknown • Hendrick van Balen, Flemish painter from Antwerp (died 1632) • Giovanni Andrea Donducci, Italian painter of the Bolognese School (painting) (died 1655) • Marcello Provenzale, Italian painter and mosaicist (died 1639) • Tommaso Salini, Italian painter of still life (died 1625) • Abraham van Blijenberch, Flemish painter (died 1624) • probable • Jacques Bellange, French artist and printmaker from Lorraine (died 1616) • Orazio Borgianni, Italian painter and etcher of the Mannerist and early-baroque periods (died 1616) • Bartolomé de Cárdenas, Spanish painter (died 1628) • Domenico Falcini, Flemish Renaissance painter and engraver (died 1632) • Floris van Dyck, Dutch still life painter (died 1651) • (born 1575/1580) Tanzio da Varallo, Italian painter of the late-Mannerist or early Baroque period (died 1632/1633) • (born 1575/1580) Gillis d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter who worked in a Flemish style (died 1638) • (born 1575/1580) Abraham van der Doort, Dutch-born artist and curator (died 1640) ==Deaths==

• June 2 – Pieter Aertsen, Dutch painter (born 1508) • October 8 - Jan Matsys, Flemish painter (born c.1510) • October 20 - Cornelis Floris de Vriendt, Flemish sculptor and architect (born 1514) • November - Corneille de Lyon, Dutch painter (born 1505) • December 29 - Giovanni Battista Scultori, Italian painter, sculptor and engraver (born 1503) • date unknown • Wen Boren, Chinese landscape painter of the Ming Dynasty (born 1502) • Federico Brandani, Italian sculptor and stuccoist who worked in an urbane Mannerist style as a court artist (born 1522/1525) • Lodovico Lombardo, Italian sculptor (born c.1507) • Giuseppe Porta, Italian painter active mainly in Venice (born 1520) ==References==