1598 in art

Events

• Marin le Bourgeoys is appointed Valet de Chambre to King Henry IV of France. At court he produces artwork, firearms, air guns, crossbows, and movable globes.
• The first recorded use of the term "landscape" in English, to refer to a genre of painting, borrowed from the Dutch term "landschap".

Works

• Federico Barocci
• *Aeneas' Flight from Troy
• *St. Jerome
• Caravaggio
• *Saint Catherine
• *Sacrifice of Isaac
• *Martha and Mary Magdalene
• *''Portrait of Maffeo Barberini''

Births

• May 23 - Claude Mellan, French engraver and painter
• July 31 – Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor
• baptized November 7 – Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish Baroque painter
• December 7 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian Baroque sculptor and architect of 17th century Rome
• date unknown
• *Bartholomeus Breenbergh, Dutch painter
• *Domingos da Cunha, Portuguese painter
• *Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari, Italian painter of the Baroque period active in Genoa
• *Willem de Passe, Dutch engraver and designer of medals
• *Chen Hongshou, Chinese painter of late Ming Dynasty
• *Willem Hondius, Dutch engraver, cartographer and painter
• *Lambert Jacobsz, Dutch painter
• *Jean Lemaire, French painter
• *Bernard van Linge, Dutch glass and enamel painter
• probable - Wang Jian, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty

Deaths

• March 27 - Theodor de Bry, Flemish-born engraver, draftsman and book editor and publisher
• April 19 - Hans Fugger, patron of the arts
• June 25 - Giacomo Gaggini, Italian sculptor
• December 28 - Gillis Mostaert, Dutch painter, son of Jan Mostaert
• date unknown
• *Giovanni Antonio di Amato the younger, Italian painter
• *René Boyvin, French engraver who lived in Angers
• *Benedetto Caliari, Italian painter
• *Jacopino del Conte, Italian Mannerist painter
• *Guillaume Le Bé, French engraver
• probable - Marcin Kober, Polish court painter to King Stefan Batory