1565 in art

Events from the year 1565 in art.

• September - Titian goes to Cadore to design decorations for the church at Pieve, which will be partly executed by his pupils.
• Before December - Daniele da Volterra begins the work of overpainting nudity in the late Michelangelo's The Last Judgment (Sistine Chapel), earning himself the nickname Il Braghettone ("the breeches maker").^[1]

• Pieter Bruegel the Elder paints
  • the cycle of the seasons
    • The Hunters in the Snow (winter) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
    • The Gloomy Day (old beginning of the year in March) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
    • The Hay Harvest (early summer) in Nelahozeves (Czech Republic).
    • The Harvesters (late summer) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York.
    • The Return of the Herd (autumn) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
  • Winter Landscape with Skaters and Bird Trap.
  • Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery.
• Lucas Cranach the Younger paints the Altarpiece of the Reformers in Dessau.
• Sebastiano Filippi (Bastianino) paints Birth of the Virgin.
• Tintoretto begins painting the cycle of the life of Christ (completed 1567), including Crucifixion, in the Sala dell'Albergo (Hall of the Hostel) at the Scuola di San Rocco in Venice.
• Titian paints
  • The Penitent Magdalene.
  • Venus Blindfolding Cupid at about this date.
• Giorgio Vasari paints the frescoes on the walls of the Palazzo Vecchio representing scenes of the Austrian Habsburg estates.
• Paolo Veronese paints the Allegory of Virtue and Vice and Wisdom and Strength in Venice, Italy.

• May 15 - Hendrick de Keyser, Dutch sculptor and architect (died 1621)
• June 2 - Francisco Ribalta, Spanish painter, mostly of religious subjects (died 1628)
• date unknown
  • Bernardino Cesari, Italian painter (died 1621)
  • Camillo Mariani, Italian sculptor of the early Baroque (died 1611)
  • Konoe Nobutada, Momoyama period Japanese poet, calligrapher, painter and diarist (died 1614)
  • Isaac Oliver, French-born English portrait miniature painter (died 1617)
  • Jan Saenredam, Dutch engraver (died 1607)
  • Decio Termisani, Naples-born Italian painter (died 1600)
• probable
  • Reza Abbasi, Persian miniaturist, painter and calligrapher of the Isfahan School (died 1635)
  • Achille Calici, Italian painter (died unknown)
  • Cheng Jiasui, Chinese landscape painter and poet during the Ming Dynasty (died 1643)
  • Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch painter and engraver (died 1629)

• date unknown
  • Antonio Begarelli ("Begarino"), Italian sculptor (born 1499)
  • Antonio Bernieri, Italian painter, pupil of Correggio (born 1516)
  • Bernardino Licinio, Italian painter (born c.1489)
  • Pietro Negroni, Italian painter (born c.1505)
  • Paolo Pino, Italian painter and art writer (born 1534)
  • Joseph Weiß, Germain painter (born c.1486)
• probable - Garcia Fernandes, Portuguese Renaissance painter (born unknown)