1596 in art

Events

* (unknown)

Paintings

Caravaggio paints "The Lute Player" 1596

Births

* November 1 - Pietro da Cortona, byname of Pietro Berettini, prolific artist and architect of High Baroque (d. 1669)
* Obaku Dokuryu, Japanese calligrapher and painter (d. 1672)
* Leonaert Bramer, Dutch painter (d. 1674)
* Jacob van Campen - Dutch artist and architect of the Golden Age (d. 1657)
* Abraham van Diepenbeeck - Dutch painter of the Flemish School (d. 1675)
* Jan van Goyen - Dutch landscape painter (d. 1656)
* Thomas de Keyser - Dutch painter and architect (d. 1667)
* Juan van der Hamen - Spanish still life painter (d. 1631)
* Antonio Catalani - Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods (d. "unknown")
* Cesare Dandini - Italian painter (d. 1657)
* Andrea di Leone - Italian painter of battle scenes (d. 1675)
* Xiao Yuncong - Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet in the late Ming Dynasty (d. 1673)

Deaths

* George Gower - English portrait painter who became sergeant-painter to Queen Elizabeth I (b. 1540)
* Nicholas of Herenthals - Flemish painter (b. "unknown")
* Pellegrino Tibaldi - Italian mannerist architect, sculptor, and mural painter (b. 1527)