#1560s

[history-of-fashion]

1560 Attributed to Alessandro Allori and assistants - Lucrezia de’ Medici

(North Carolina Museum of Art)

[oncanvas]

A Memento Mori Skeleton, France, 1566

Limestone 55 ½ in. (141 cm) high

[artschoolglasses]

Parts of an Armour for the Tilt, French, 1550-60

From the Philadelphia Museum of Art

[garadinervi]

Galileo Galilei, b. February 15, 1564 / 2026

(image: Galileo Galilei, Sidereus nuncius, apud Thomam Baglionum, Venetijs, 1610. Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, Washington D.C.)

[ltwilliammowett]

An Amsterdam 'hulk'c.1560 by Arnold de Lange, 2025

Oil on panel, 24 x 30 cm

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: The Sacrifice of Iphigenia Artist: Pieter Aertsen (Dutch, ca. 1508-1575) Date: ca. 1560 Genre: mythological art Movement: Northern Mannerism Medium: pen in brown ink Dimensions: 119 cm (46.9 in) high x 260 cm (102.4 in) wide Location: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands In this highly wrought drawing, figures in twisted poses typical of Mannerism react to the central act of violence, as Agamemnon prepares to plunge his sword into his bound daughter Iphigenia. Smoke billows from the altar beside them, showing that the sacrifice is imminent. The figure at far right who turns her face away may be Clytemnestra.

Pieter Aertsen, who worked both in his native Amsterdam and in Antwerp, specialized in genre scenes, including monumental paintings that blended genre art and still life. His work influenced both the emergent Flemish Baroque and the later Dutch Golden Age.

[ghw-archive]

Saoirse Ronan in Mary Queen of Scots, 2018

[blondebrainpowered]

Allegory of Winter, 1563-65

Artist: Bartolomeo Ammannati

Villa Medici, Castello

This allegorical stone statue in the garden of Villa Medici designed by Niccolò Tribolo is one of the famous works by Ammannati.