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").{{cite book|authorlink=Anthony Blunt|last=Blunt|first=Anthony|title=Artistic Theory in Italy, 1450–1600|orig-date=1940|date=1985|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-19-881050-4|page=119}}

File:Pieter Bruegel the Elder- The Harvesters - Google Art Project.jpg, The Harvesters, 1565, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York]]

• 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)

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