1552 in art

Events

• Spanish sculptor and architect Alonso Berruguete begins work on the hospital of St. John the Baptist in Toledo.

Paintings

Jacobsz. – A Group of Guardsmen, Rijksmuseum

• Dirck Jacobsz. – A Group of Guardsmen
• Hans Mielich – Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria and his wife Anna of Austria playing chess
• Tintoretto – The Vision of St. Peter

Other works

• Altarpiece of the Iglesia de San Juan Bautista (Chiclana de la Frontera) by Roque Balduque and Andrés Ramírez

Births

• August 24 - Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (died 1614)
• September 21 - Barbara Longhi, Italian painter (died 1638)
• date unknown
  • Hans von Aachen, German Mannerist painter (died 1615)
  • Alessandro Casolano, Italian painter primarily working in Siena (died 1606)
  • Daniël van den Queborn, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1602)
  • Emanuel Sweert, Dutch painter (died 1612)
• probable
  • Avanzino Nucci, Italian painter (died 1629)
  • Cristoforo Roncalli, Italian painter (died 1626)

Deaths

• July 12 - Niccolò Soggi, Italian painter (born c.1480)
• date unknown
  • Amico Aspertini, early leader of the Bolognese School of painting (born c.1474)
  • Peter Dell the Elder, German sculptor (born 1490)
  • Lucas Cornelisz de Kock, Dutch painter at the Tudor court (born 1495)
  • Giovanni Antonio Lappoli, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1492)
  • Qiu Ying, Chinese painter who specialized in the gongbi brush technique (born 1494)