1627 in art

Events

* The Fontana della Barcaccia in Rome is engineered by Gian Lorenzo Bernini with help from his father.

Works

*Rembrandt
**"The Flight to Egypt" (painting)
**"The Gold Weigher"
**"St. Paul in Prison"

Births

* May 16 - Willem van Aelst, Dutch artist (d. 1683)
* August 2 - Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten (d. 1678)
* date unknown
**Philip Fruytiers, Flemish painter (died 1666)
**Roland Roghman, Dutch painter (died 1692)
**Josse de Corte, French sculptor (d. 1679)
**Onorio Marinari, Italian painter (d. 1715)
**Jan Siberechts, Flemish painter (d. 1703)
**Domenico Piola, Genoese painter (d. 1703)
**Jan de Bray - Dutch painter (d. 1697)
**Matthias Withoos - Dutch painter of still lifes and city scenes (d. 1703)
**Ippolito Galantini - Italian painter and monk (d. 1706)

Deaths

* Giovanni Paolo Cavagna, Italian painter (born 1556)
* Piermaria Bagnadore - Italian painter and architect of the late-Renaissance period (born 1556)
* Ippolito Borghese - Italian painter of the late-Renaissance (b. "unknown")
* Tiberio di Tito - Italian painter of portraits, including small pencil portraits (b. 1573)
* Sir Nathaniel Bacon - Painter of kitchen and market scenes with large vegetables, fruit, and buxom maids (b. 1585)
* Jacopo Ligozzi - Italian painter, illustrator, designer, and miniaturist of the late Renaissance and early Mannerist styles (b. 1547)