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Contents 1 Events 2 Works 3 Paintings 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• Benvenuto Cellini begins writing his influential autobiography on his life and goldsmith's art, sculpture, and design

Works

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, 1558

Paintings

• Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
• Pierre Reymond - Tazza: Scene from the Book of Proverbs
• Domenico Campagnola - Callisto's Transformation into a Bear after Giving Birth to Arcas
• Paolo Veronese - Assumption of the Virgin

Births

• Hendrik Goltzius - Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and painter (d. 1617)
• Honami Kōetsu - Japanese craftsman, founder of the Rinpa school (d. 1637)
• Belisario Corenzio - Italian Mannerist painter (d. 1643)
• Chen Jiru - Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher during the Ming Dynasty (d. 1639)

Deaths