1570 – 1580s

Events in the 1570s 12

• 1336 – 1573 Muromachi period Ashikaga shoguns; Zen arts and growing chaos Under the Ashikaga shogunate based in Kyoto's Muromachi district, Japan saw the flowering of Zen-influenced arts — the tea ceremony, Noh theatre, ink painting and rock gardens. But central authority weakened, and the catastrophic Onin War (1467) tipped the country into the Sengoku age of civil war.
• 1488 – 1576 Titian Venetian Renaissance · Italy Titian (c. 1488 – August 27, 1576) was the leading Venetian painter of the 16th century, celebrated for his rich colour, dynamic compositions and influential portraits. He lived to nearly 90 and worked until the end.
• 1505 – 1572 Christopher Tye English Renaissance composer Christopher Tye was an English composer and music teacher at Ely Cathedral whose in nomines and sacred works helped define the English Renaissance polyphonic tradition.
• 1510 – 1572 Pierre Certon French Renaissance composer Pierre Certon was a French composer and singer at the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris whose chansons and sacred works were widely published and admired.
• 1571 – 1621 Michael Praetorius German Renaissance composer and theorist Michael Praetorius was a prolific German composer and music theorist whose encyclopedic Syntagma Musicum documented Renaissance musical practice. His sacred works filled many volumes.
• 1571 – 1610 Caravaggio Baroque · Italy Caravaggio (September 29, 1571 – July 18, 1610) was an Italian Baroque painter who revolutionised art with his radical use of chiaroscuro (light and shadow) and brutal realism. He killed a man in 1606 and died a fugitive at 38.
• 1571 Battle of Lepanto -- the naval check The Battle of Lepanto (7 October 1571) is the largest naval battle since antiquity -- 400+ ships, 150,000 men. A Holy League fleet under Don John of Austria destroys the Ottoman navy off the Greek coast. It is the first major Ottoman military defeat and the end of Ottoman naval supremacy in the western Mediterranean. Cervantes loses his left hand at Lepanto. But the strategic impact is limited: the Ottomans rebuild their fleet within a year and take Cyprus (1571) regardless. Lepanto is more symbolically than strategically decisive -- it breaks the myth of Ottoman invincibility at sea.
• 1572 – 1656 Thomas Tomkins English Renaissance composer Thomas Tomkins was an English composer and organist whose sacred anthems and keyboard works represent the final flowering of the English polyphonic tradition.
• 1573 – 1616 Johann Hermann Schein German Renaissance composer Johann Hermann Schein was a German composer who applied Italian madrigal and concerto techniques to German sacred and secular music, anticipating the Baroque style.
• 1574 – 1638 John Wilbye English madrigal composer John Wilbye was an English madrigalist whose two published collections contain some of the most refined and emotionally expressive English madrigals ever composed.
• 1576 – 1623 Thomas Weelkes English madrigal composer Thomas Weelkes was one of England's greatest madrigalists whose bold harmonies and expressive text-setting produced some of the finest English madrigals of the late Renaissance.
• 1577 – 1640 Peter Paul Rubens Baroque · Flanders Peter Paul Rubens (June 28, 1577 – May 30, 1640) was a Flemish Baroque painter whose exuberant, dynamic compositions defined the Counter-Reformation aesthetic. He ran a vast workshop and also served as a diplomat.