1584 in art

Events

• Giacomo della Porta completes the façade of the Church of the Gesu in Rome.
• Dutch Golden Age painting begins.

Works

• Annibale Carracci – The Beaneater
• Lavinia Fontana
• *Assumption of the Virgin with Saints Peter Chrysologus and Cassian
• *Portrait of the Coozzadini Family
• Matteo Perez d'Aleccio – Saint Christopher carrying the Infant Saviour on his shoulder
• Tintoretto – ''Capture of Zara from the Hungarians in 1346 amid a hurricane of missiles''

Births

• February 2 - Anna Visscher, Dutch artist, poet, and translator
• November 18 - Caspar de Crayer, Flemish painter
• date unknown
• *Pietro Francesco Alberti, Italian painter and engraver for the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods
• *Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo, Italian painter active mainly in Genoa
• *Giacomo Apollonio, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods
• *David Bailly, Leiden artist
• *Cesare Bassano, Italian painter and engraver
• *Felice Damiani, Italian painter of religious themed works and altarpieces
• *Jean de Beaugrand, French lineographer and mathematician
• *Pieter de Valck, Dutch Golden Age painter
• *Cornelis de Vos, Flemish Baroque painter
• *Rafael Sadeler II, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family
• *Shōkadō Shōjō, Japanese Edo period Buddhist monk, painter, calligrapher and master of the tea ceremony
• *Jan Tengnagel, Dutch painter
• *Jacob van der Laemen, Flemish painter
• probable
• *Willem van der Vliet, Dutch painter and uncle of Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet

Deaths

• January 4 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and illustrator
• January 30 - Pieter Pourbus, Dutch-born [Dutch and Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting|Flemish Renaissance painting|Flemish Renaissance] painter
• May 22 - Ludger tom Ring the Younger, German painter and draughtsman
• May 25 - Prospero Spani, Italian sculptor
• August 29 - Lucas de Heere, Flemish portrait painter, poet and writer
• date unknown
• *Pieter Balten - Flemish Renaissance painter
• *Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau, French architect, sculptor, designer
• *Giovanni Filippo Criscuolo, Italian painter
• *Jacques Du Brœucq, Dutch sculptor and architect
• *Hu Zhengyan, Chinese artist, printmaker, calligrapher and publisher
• *Pierre Reymond, French enamelist
• probable
• *Pieter Huys, Flemish painter
• *Lambert Sustris, Dutch painter