1621 in art

Events

Paintings

* Giovanni Francesco Barbieri painted "The Suicide of Cleopatra".
* Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri (1589-1655) painted "Virgin and Child".
* Peter Paul Rubens painted "The Massacre of the Innocents".
* Domenico Zampieri painted "The Assumption of Mary Magdalene into Heaven".

Births

* David Beck - Dutch portrait painter (d. 1656)
* Gerbrand van den Eeckhout - Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age (d. 1674)
* Allart van Everdingen - Dutch painter and printmaker in etching and mezzotint (d. 1675)
* Isaac van Ostade - Dutch genre and landscape painter (d. 1649)
* Jan Baptist Weenix - Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age (d. 1660)
* Giacinto Brandi - Italian painter of the Baroque era, active mainly in Rome and Naples (d. 1691)
* Giuseppe Diamantini - Italian painter and printmaker of the Baroque period (d. 1705)
* Giulio Cesare Milani - Italian painter of the Baroque (d. 1678)
* Jacques Courtois - French painter (d. 1676)

Deaths

* Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (b. 1577)
* Louis de Caullery, French painter (b. 1555)
* Ambrosius Bosschaert, Dutch painter (b. 1573)
* Bernardino Cesari - Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early Baroque period (b. 1565)