Events from the year 1570 in art.

• Ustad ‘Osman becomes head of the painters at the Seraglio workshop of Sultan Murad III.

• Federico Barocci - Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Vatican Museums)
• Joachim Beuckelaer - The Four Elements (series completed)
• Bernaert de Rijckere - The Festival of the Gods
• Hans Eworth- Elizabeth 1st
• El Greco - The Entombment of Christ (approximate completion date)
• Paolo Veronese - The Allegory of Love (ceiling paintings for Prague Castle; now in National Gallery, London)^[1]

• November 15 - Francesco Curradi, Italian painter of the style described as Counter-Maniera or Counter-Mannerism (died 1631)
• date unknown
  • Giuseppe Agellio, Italian painter (died after 1620)
  • Giulio Cesare Angeli, Italian painter (died 1630)
  • Cornelis Jacobsz Delff, Dutch painter (died 1643)
  • Tommaso Dolabella, Baroque painter from Venice (died 1650)
  • Renold Elstracke, one of the earliest native engravers in England (died 1625)
  • Epiphanius Evesham, British sculptor (died 1634)
  • Aegidius Sadeler II, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family (died 1629)
  • Gillis van Valckenborch, Flemish painter (died 1622)
  • Francesco Zucco, Italian painter (died 1627)
• probable
  • Abel Grimmer, Flemish painter (died c.1620)
  • Hans Krumpper, sculptor and plasterer (died 1634)
  • Pasquale Ottini, Italian painter active mainly in Verona (died 1630)
  • Isabella Parasole, Italian engraver on wood (date of death unknown)
  • Leonardo Parasole, Italian engraver on wood (date of death unknown)
  • Aegidius Sadeler, Flemish painter and engraver (died 1629)
  • Denis van Alsloot, Flemish painter (died 1626)
  • 1570-1575:Simon Frisius, Dutch engraver (died 1628/29)

• January 19 - Paris Bordone, Venetian painter (born 1495)
• October 1 – Frans Floris, Flemish painter (born 1519)
• October 3 - Hieronymus Cock, Flemish Northern Renaissance painter, etcher and publisher of prints (born 1510)
• November 27 - Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect, especially around the Piazza San Marco in Venice (born 1486)
• date unknown
  • Gaspar Becerra, Spanish painter and sculptor (born 1520)
  • Francesco Imparato, Italian painter active mainly in his natal city of Naples (born 1520)
  • Ferdinando Manlio, Italian sculptor (date of birth unknown)
  • Francesco Melzi, Italian painter, beloved and favourite pupil of Leonardo da Vinci (born 1491)
  • Francesco Primaticcio, Italian painter, architect, and sculptor (born 1504)
  • Martin Van Cleve, Flemish painter (born 1520)
• probable - Domenico del Barbieri, Florentine artist of the Renaissance period (born 1506)