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