1594 in art

Events

• Hendrick de Clerck becomes court painter to Archduke Ernest of Austria.

Paintings

• Caravaggio
• *The Cardsharps
• *The Fortune Teller
• Ludovico Carracci – Transfiguration
• Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger – Captain Thomas Lee
• Tommaso Laureti – Frescos in Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome
• Tintoretto – The Last Supper
• Second School of Fontainebleau – ''Gabrielle d'Estrées and one of her sisters''

Sculpture

• Black Christ of Esquipulas

Births

• March 25 - Maria Tesselschade Visscher, Dutch poet and engraver
• June 15 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter in the classical style
• July 10 - Bartolomeo Gennari, Italian Renaissance painter
• December - Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, Dutch portrait and landscape painter
• December 14 - Willem Claeszoon Heda, Dutch artist devoted exclusively to the painting of still life
• date unknown
• *Charles Audran, French engraver
• *Giovanni Battista Barca, Italian painter
• *Peter Oliver, English miniaturist
• *Clara Peeters, Flemish still life painter
• *Carlo Ridolfi, Italian art biographer and painter
• *Cornelis van Poelenburgh, Dutch painter

Deaths

• May 31 – Tintoretto Italian painter of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance
• date unknown
• *Cristóvão Lopes, Portuguese portrait and altarpiece painter
• *Francisco Venegas, Spanish painter active in Portugal