1596 in art

Events

Paintings

• Federico Barocci - Annunciation
• Caravaggio
• *The Lute Player
• *Medusa
• Annibale Carracci - ''The Choice of Hercules''

Births

• January 13 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch landscape painter
• February 2 - Jacob van Campen, Dutch artist and architect of the Golden Age
• April - Juan van der Hamen, Spanish still life painter
• May - Abraham van Diepenbeeck, Dutch painter of the Flemish School
• June 5 - Peter Wtewael, Dutch painter, son of Joachim Wtewael
• October 1 - Cesare Dandini, Italian painter
• October 5 - Pieter van Mierevelt, Dutch Golden Age painter
• November 1 – Pietro da Cortona, pseudonym of Pietro Berettini, prolific artist and architect of High Baroque
• December 24 - Leonaert Bramer, Dutch painter
• date unknown
• *Antonio Bisquert, Spanish painter of the Baroque period
• *Obaku Dokuryu, Japanese calligrapher and painter
• *Andrea di Leone, Italian painter of battle scenes
• *Xiao Yuncong, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet in the late Ming Dynasty
• probable
• *Thomas de Keyser, Dutch painter and architect
• *Antonio Catalani, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods

Deaths

• July 10 - Alessandro Alberti, Italian painter
• date unknown
• *Hans Donauer, German painter
• *George Gower, English portrait painter who became sergeant-painter to Queen Elizabeth I
• *Nicholas Francken of Herenthals, Flemish painter
• *Dario Varotari the Elder, Italian painter, sculptor, and architect
• *Pedro de Villegas Marmolejo, Spanish sculptor and painter
• probable
• *Niccolò Circignani, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period
• *Pellegrino Tibaldi, Italian mannerist architect, sculptor, and mural painter