Events from the year 1574 in art.

• Niccolò Circignani decorates the "Room of the Exploits" in the Palazzo del Comune at Castiglione del Lago.

• Niccolò Circignani - Frescos at Palazzo della Corgna in Castiglione del Lago
• Jean de Court - Henri, Duke of Anjou
• Corneille de Lyon - Gabrielle de Rochechouart
• Hans von Aachen - Self-portrait (approximate date)

• April - Matteo Zaccolini, Italian painter, priest and author of the late Mannerist and early Baroque periods (died 1630)
• May 14 - Daniel Dumonstier, French portraitist in crayon (died 1646)
• date unknown
  • Francesco Brizio, Italian painter and engraver of the Bolognese School (died 1623)
  • Baccio Ciarpi, Italian painter (died 1654)
  • Guillaume Dupré, French sculptor and medallist (died 1643)
  • Nicodemo Ferrucci, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1650)
  • Giulio Cesare Procaccini, Italian painter and sculptor of Milan (died 1625)
  • Wen Zhenmeng, Chinese Ming Dynasty painter, calligrapher, scholar, author, and garden designer (died 1636)

• March 18 – Lattanzio Gambara, Italian painter, active in Renaissance and Mannerist styles (born 1530)
• June 27 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (born 1511)
• October - Carlo Portelli, Italian painter (date of birth unknown)
• October 1 - Marten van Heemskerk, Dutch portrait and religious painter (born 1498)
• December 10 - Ascanio Condivi, Italian painter and writer, primarily remembered as the biographer of Michelangelo (born 1525)
• date unknown
  • Ascanio Condivi, Italian painter and writer (born 1525)
  • Hans Eworth, Flemish painter (born 1520)
  • Camillo Filippi, Italian painter (date of birth unknown)
  • Francesco Menzocchi, Italian painter (born 1502)
• probable
  • Joachim Beuckelaer, Flemish painter primarily of scenes of kitchen and markets (born 1533)
  • Jacopo Bertoia, Italian painter (born 1544)
  • Giulio Bonasone, Italian painter and engraver (born 1498)
  • Marco d'Agrate, Italian sculptor (born 1504)