1583 in art

Events from the year 1583 in art.

Events

Italian Jesuit painter Giovanni Niccolo is sent to Portuguese Japan to found a painters' seminary.

Bartolomeo Passarotti – The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (painted for chapel of Gabella Grossa, Bologna; now in Pinacotheca there)
Annibale Carracci – Crucifixion
Lavinia Fontana – Newborn Baby in a Crib (approximate date)
Joseph Heintz – Venus and Adonis
Quentin Metsys the Younger – The Sieve Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I of England

Giambologna – Venus After the Bath
Germain Pilon – Effigies of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici in coronation dress

date unknown
- Alessandro Bardelli, Italian painter (died 1633)
- Paolo Biancucci, Italian painter primarily of religious scenes (died 1653)
- Antonio Carracci, Italian painter (died 1618)
- Nicolaes de Giselaer, Dutch painter and draughtsman (died 1654)
- Pieter Lastman, Dutch painter (died 1633)
- Juan de Mesa, Spanish sculptor (died 1627)
- Astolfo Petrazzi, Italian painter, active mainly in his native Siena (died 1653/1665)
- Giovanni Valesio, Italian painter and engraver from Bologna (died 1633)
- Hendrik van der Borcht the elder, engraver (died 1651)
probable
- Hendrik Goudt, Dutch painter (died 1648)
- Jan Porcellis, Dutch marine artist (died 1632)
- Jan Pynas, Dutch Baroque painter (died 1631)

March 24 - Hubert Goltzius, Dutch painter, engraver and printer (born 1526)
June 8 - Matthijs Bril, landscape fresco painter who worked in Rome (born 1550)
October 30 – Pirro Ligorio, Italian architect, painter, antiquarian and garden designer (born 1510)
December 23 – Nicolás Factor, Spanish painter (born 1520)
date unknown
- Orazio Alfani, Italian painter (born 1510)
- Lorenzo Costa the Younger, Italian painter (born 1537)
- Wen Jia, Chinese painter of landscapes and flowers (born 1501)
- Marco Pino, Italian painter of the Renaissance and Mannerist period (born 1521)
- Martino Rota, engraver and printmaker (born 1520)
probable
- Jean Court, enamel painter (born 1511)
- Melchior Lorck, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker of Danish-German origin (born 1526/1527)