1597 in art

Works

• Federico Barocci - Nativity
• Caravaggio
• *Penitent Magdalene
• *Rest on the Flight into Egypt
• *Medusa
• *Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto
• Dong Qichang - Wanluan Thatched Hall
• Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, in Garter robes
• El Greco - The Saint Joseph and the Christ Child
• Christ Pantocrator together with the twelve apostles, above the entrance gate of the Holy Virgin main church in the Rohzen Monastery, Bulgaria

Births

• February 2 - Jacob van Campen, Dutch artist and architect of the Golden Age
• March 10 - Ercole Gennari, Italian Renaissance drawer and painter
• June 9 - Pieter Jansz Saenredam, Dutch painter of structures, architectural portraitist
• July 2 - Theodoor Rombouts, Flemish painter
• September 28 - Justus Sustermans, Flemish painter in the Baroque style
• date unknown
• *Claude Audran the Elder, French engraver
• *Orfeo Boselli, Italian sculptor working in Rome
• *Salomon de Bray, Dutch painter
• *Pedro de Obregón, Spanish painter and printmaker
• *Henricus Hondius II, Dutch engraver, cartographer and publisher
• *Juan Ribalta, Spanish painter
• *Xiang Shengmo, Chinese painter in the Qing Dynasty
• probable
• *Jan van Bijlert, Dutch painter, co-founder of the Bentvueghels
• *Pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter
• *Giacomo di Castro, Italian painter
• *Ludovico Lana, Italian painter, mainly active in Modena
• *Johann Liss, German-born painter

Deaths

• February 2 - Lucas van Valckenborch, Flemish landscape painter
• September 28 - Hendrick van den Broeck, Flemish painter active mainly in Rome
• date unknown
• *Giovanni Battista de'Cavalieri, Italian engraver
• *Prospero Fontana, Italian painter of the late Renaissance
• *Francesco Morandini, Italian painter active in Florence
• *Willem Thibaut, Dutch Golden Age painter