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The year 1577 in art involved some significant events and new works.
Events
- El Greco moves from Rome to Spain, where he will spend the rest of his life.
- The Accademia di San Luca is founded as an association of artists in Rome.
Works
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Lavinia Fontana - Self-Portrait at the Clavichord
Some dates approximate
- Lavinia Fontana - Self-Portrait at the Clavichord Accompanied by a Handmaiden
- El Greco - The Repentant Magdalen
- Nicholas Hilliard - Portrait miniatures
- The Duke of Alençon
- Marguerite of Navarre
- Self-portrait
- Cornelis Ketel - Martin Frobisher
Births
- March 20 - Alessandro Tiarini, Italian Baroque painter of frescoes, façade decorations, and altarpieces (died 1668)
- June 28 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (died 1640)
- July 21 - Adam Willaerts, Dutch painter (died 1664)
- October 17 - Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (died 1621)
- December 8 - Mario Minniti, Italian painter, also the model for Caravaggio's painting Boy with a Basket of Fruit (died 1640)
- date unknown
- Eugenio Caxés, Spanish painter (died 1634)
- Giacomo Cavedone, Italian painter of the Bolognese School (died 1660)
- Giovanni Battista Crescenzi, Italian painter and architect (died 1635)
- Aart Jansz Druyvesteyn, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1627)
- Cornelis van der Geest, Dutch merchant and art collector (died 1638)
Deaths
- February 17 - Giuliano Bugiardini, Italian painter (born 1475)
- May - Richard Aertsz, Dutch historical painter (born 1482)
- June 12 - Orazio Samacchini, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1532)
- date unknown
- Juan de Juni, French–Spanish sculptor (born 1507)
- Léonard Limousin, French painter, member of Limoges enamel painter family (born 1505)
- Guglielmo della Porta, Italian architect and sculptor (born c.1500)
- Antonis Mor, Dutch portrait painter (born 1517)
- Cristóbal Ramírez, painter and illuminator of manuscripts for King Philip II of Spain
- Lorenzo Sabbatini, Italian painter (born 1530)
- Michele Tosini, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1503)
- probable - Gert van Groningen, Danish sculptor (date of birth unknown)