1592 in art

Events

• Giulio Mancini comes to Rome and quickly builds a brilliant medical career, eventually becoming personal physician to Pope Urban VIII; while there, he becomes a discerning art collector.

Works

• Caravaggio – Boy Peeling Fruit
• Annibale Carracci
• *helps complete Founding of Rome frescoes in Palazzo Magnani, Bologna
• *Assumption for Bonasoni chapel in church of San Francesco
• *The Madonna of Bologna for chapel of Caprara Palace
• *The Virgin Appears to the Saints Luke and Catherine
• Giuseppe Cesari – Cappella Olgiati in Santa Prassede, Rome
• Hendrik Goltzius – engravings of the Muses
• Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger - The Ditchley Portrait
• Tintoretto – begins Last Supper fresco

Births

• February 23 - Balthazar Gerbier, Dutch art advisor and designer at the English court
• March 20 – Giovanni da San Giovanni, Italian painter
• September 5 – Jacopo Vignali, Florentine painter
• October 30 - Giulio Benso, Genovese painter
• November 4 - Gerard van Honthorst, Dutch painter of Utrecht
• date unknown
• *Miquel Bestard, Spanish painter from Majorca
• *Jacques Callot, printmaker and draughtsman from Lorraine
• *Ingen, Chinese Linji Chán Buddhist monk, poet, and calligrapher
• *Claes Corneliszoon Moeyaert, Catholic Dutch painter
• *Giacomo Rocca, Italian painter
• *Peter Snayers, Flemish battlefield painter
• *Wang Duo, Chinese calligrapher and painter of the Ming Dynasty
• probable
• *Jacob Pynas, Dutch painter
• *Wang Shimin, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing dynasty
• *Shao Mi, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty

Deaths

• February 13 – Jacopo Bassano, Italian landscape and genre painter
• February 23 - Natale Bonifacio, engraver and producer of woodcuts
• March 5 – Michael Coxcie, painter
• April 5 - Jerónimo Cosida, Spanish Renaissance painter, sculptor, goldsmith and architect
• April 13 - Bartolomeo Ammanati, architect and sculptor
• May - Dirck Barendsz, Dutch painter who was born and died in Amsterdam
• July 4 - Francesco Bassano the Younger, painter
• date unknown
• *Willem Boy, Flemish painter, sculptor, and architect active in Sweden
• *Alessandro Fei, Italian painter who primarily worked in a Mannerist style
• *David Kandel, Strasbourg-born botanical illustrator
• *Girolamo Muziano, Italian painter