1586 in art

Events

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Works

El Greco – The Burial of the Count of Orgaz

• Anonymous – Portrait of Sir Henry Unton
• Giuseppe Arcimboldo – An Allegory of Death
• El Greco – The Burial of the Count of Orgaz

Births

• date unknown
  • Giovanni Stefano Marucelli, Italian painter and architect active mainly in Tuscany (died 1646)
  • Orazio Riminaldi, Italian Caravaggisti painter of the Baroque period (died 1631)
  • Tiberio Tinelli, Italian painter of portraits of aristocracy, merchants, and intellectuals in Venice (died 1638)
• probable
  • Massimo Stanzione, Italian Caravaggisti Baroque painter of frescoes (died 1656)
  • Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (died 1647)

Deaths

• May 9 - Luis de Morales, Spanish painter (born 1510)
• date unknown
  • Francesco Camilliani, Italian sculptor (born 1530)
  • Giovanni Battista Maganza, Italian religious painter (b. c.1513)
  • Matthias Zündt, German engraver (born 1496)
• probable - Pedro Campaña, Flemish painter of the Renaissance period (born 1503)