1590 in art
Events from the year 1590 in art.
Events
- Gian Paolo Lomazzo produces his critical treatise .
Works
- Federico Barocci -
- Annibale Carracci
- *Assumption of the Virgin
- *The Beaneater
- Antonio Circignani - Frescoes of the finding of the True Cross
- Hendrick de Clerck - Anne with the Virgin and Child
- Lavinia Fontana - Portrait of Gerolamo Mercuriale
- School of Fontainebleau - Gabrielle d'Estrees with a Sister
- Palma il Giovane - Francesco St Jerome, rare oil painting on copper
- Hasegawa Tōhaku - Shōrin-zu byōbu "Pine Trees" inkwash
- Cornelis van Haarlem – The Fall of the Titans
- Crispin van den Broeck - ''Two Young Men''
Births
- March 25 - Andries van Eertvelt, Flemish Baroque painter, primarily sea scenes
- December 3 - Daniel Seghers, Jesuit brother and Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in flower still lifes
- date unknown
- *Bartholomeus van Bassen, Dutch painter
- *Jacopo Barbello, Italian painter
- *Didier Barra, French Renaissance painter
- *Christoffel van den Berghe, Dutch painter of the Baroque period
- *Gregorio Bausá, Spanish painter
- *Juan Bautista de Espinosa, Spanish still life painter
- *Luciano Borzone, Italian painter with an antique style
- *Giovanni Bernardo Carlone, Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque periods
- *Bartolomeo Cavarozzi, Italian caravaggisti painter of the Baroque period active in Spain
- *Giovanni Battista Coriolano, Italian engraver
- *Felipe Diricksen, Spanish Baroque painter primarily of portraits and religious paintings
- *Giovanni Battista Discepoli, crippled Italian painter
- *Caterina Ginnasi, Italian painter of altarpieces for the church of Santa Lucia alle Botteghe Oscure
- *Michel Lasne, French engraver, draughtsman and collector
- *Floris van Schooten, Dutch painter
- *Raffaello Vanni, Italian painter for churches
- *Cornelis Verbeeck, Dutch painter
- probable
- *Angelica Veronica Airola, Italian painter
- *Camillo Berlinghieri, Italian painter of the Baroque period
- *Giovanni Campino, Italian painter from Camerino
- *Abraham de Vries, Dutch painter
- *Paolo Domenico Finoglia, Italian painter of the early-Baroque period
- *Esteban March, Spanish painter
- *Daniël Mijtens, Dutch portrait painter
- *Mario Righetti, Italian painter active in his native Bologna
Deaths
- February 3 - Germain Pilon, French sculptors of the French Renaissance
- April 22 - Sigmund Feyerabend, German bookseller and wood-engraver
- July 22 - Leone Leoni, Italian sculptor and medallist
- October 12 - Kanō Eitoku, Japanese painter of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, patriarchs of the Kanō school of Japanese painting
- October 29 - Dirck Coornhert, Dutch writer, engraver, philosopher, translator, politician and theologian
- November 8 - Joost Janszoon Bilhamer, Dutch sculptor, engraver, and cartographer
- date unknown
- *Cesare Baglioni, Italian painter specializing in quadratura
- *Miguel Barroso, Spanish painter
- *Wouter Crabeth I, Dutch glass painter
- *Bernaert de Rijckere, Flemish painter
- *Jacob Grimmer, Flemish landscape painter
- *Girolamo Lombardo, Italian sculptor
- *Domenico Poggini, Italian sculptor and engraver
- *Marietta Robusti, Venetian painter of the Renaissance period
- probable - Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Flemish printmaker and painter associated with the English court of the mid-16th Century