1599 in art

Events

• July 23 - Caravaggio receives his first public commission for paintings.

Works

• Paul Bril – Mountain Scene
• Caravaggio
• *Basket of Fruit
• *Judith Beheading Holofernes
• *David and Goliath
• *Narcissus
• Pieter Pietersz the Elder – Poor Parents, Rich Children
• Hendrick van Balen the Elder – ''The Judgement of Paris''

Births

• February 15 - Pope Alexander II, Papal patron of the arts commissioned architectural and sculptural works by Gianlorenzo Bernini
• March 22 – Anthony van Dyck, Flemish Baroque artist who became England's leading court painter
• baptized June 6 – Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter
• September 25 – Francesco Borromini, prominent and influential Baroque architect in Rome
• November 30 – Andrea Sacchi, Italian painter of High Baroque Classicism
• December – Pieter van Laer, Dutch painter of genre scenes
• December 11 – Pieter Codde, Dutch painter of genre works
• date unknown
• *Francisco Collantes, Spanish Baroque era painter
• *Willem Cornelisz Duyster, Dutch painter from Amsterdam
• *Jan Miel, Flemish painter
• *Gerrit Reynst, Dutch merchant and art collector
• *Giovanni Battista Vanni, Italian painter of frescoes and engraver
• *Robert Walker – English portrait painter
• probable
• *Bartolommeo Coriolano, Italian engraver
• *Antioine Le Nain, French painter of the Le Nain family of painters

Deaths

• October 27 - Gillis Coignet, painter
• date unknown
• *Alberto di Giovanni Alberti, Tuscan architect, wood carver and painter
• *Antoine Caron, French master glassmaker, illustrator, Mannerist painter and a master at the School of Fontainebleau
• *Valerio Cioli, Italian sculptor
• *Gillis Coignet, Flemish painter
• *Wendel Dietterlin, German painter/architect, wrote treatise on the five orders entitled Architectura filled with Mannerist ornament
• *Giuseppe Meda, Italian painter, architect and hydraulics engineer
• *Dominicus Lampsonius, Flemish poet and artist
• *Francesco Potenzano, Italian painter, poet, and promoter
• *Friedrich Sustris, Italian-born Dutch painter working in Bavaria
• *Mayken Verhulst, Flemish miniaturist and watercolour painter
• *Pierre Woeiriot, French engraver, goldsmith, painter, sculptor and medallist