1593 in art

Events

Paintings

• Caravaggio – Boy with a Basket of Fruit
• Santi di Tito – Vision of St Thomas Aquinas
• Cornelis van Haarlem – The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
• Hans von Aachen – Pallas Athena, Venus and Juno
• Rowland Lockey- Sir Thomas More and Family
• Streatham portrait

Births

• March 13 - Georges de La Tour, painter from the Duchy of Lorraine, now in France
• May 19 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish Baroque painter from the Antwerp school of painting
• July 8 - Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian Baroque painter
• September 22 - Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver
• October - Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen, Dutch portrait painter
• December 23 - Ercole Sarti, Italian deaf painter, active in Ferrara
• date unknown
• *Giovanni Battista Barbiani, Italian painter
• *Willem van Haecht, Flemish painter
• *Balthasar van der Ast, Dutch Golden Age painter who specialized in still lifes of flowers and fruit
• *Jan van de Velde, Dutch School painter and engraver of animal, landscape and still-life subjects
• probable
• *Louis Le Nain, French painter of the Le Nain family of painters
• *Ni Yuanlu, Chinese calligrapher and painter during the Ming Dynasty
• *Balthasar van der Ast, Dutch painter who specialized in still lifes of flowers and fruit
• *1593/1601: Pieter Soutman, Dutch Golden Age painter

Deaths

• July 11 - Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter best known for creating portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, and flowers
• November 20 - Hans Bol, Flemish painter
• November 30 - Niccolò Granello, Italian fresco painter established in Spain
• date unknown
• *Claudio de Arciniega, Spanish sculptor and architect
• *Giovanni Paolo Lolmo, Italian painter
• *Zhang Han, Chinese scholar-official, literary author, painter, and essayist
• *Xu Wei, Ming Dynasty Chinese painter, poet and dramatist
• probable - Jean Cousin the Elder, French painter, sculptor, etcher, engraver, and geometrician