1603 in art

Events

• August 28 - Painter Giovanni Baglione files suit in Rome for libel against Caravaggio, Orazio Gentileschi, Ottavio Leoni and Filipo Trisegni in connection with some unflattering poems circulated around the city over the preceding summer. Caravaggio continues to criticise Baglione's work in court and is held in the Tor di Nona prison for a few weeks before being placed under house arrest.

Paintings

• Caravaggio
• *The Entombment of Christ
• *Sacrifice of Isaac
• Peter Paul Rubens - Portrait of a Young Woman
• Tawaraya Sōtatsu - Poem scroll with deer
• Andrea Vicentino - ''Battle of Lepanto''

Births

• March 2 - Pietro Novelli, Italian painter, architect and stage set designer
• June 3 - Pietro Paolini, Italian painter of still lifes and cabinet pictures
• date unknown
• *Pieter Jansz van Asch, Dutch painter
• *Cornelis Bloemaert, Dutch painter and engraver
• *Jan Gerritsz van Bronckhorst Dutch painter and engraver of the Baroque period
• *Paolo Antonio Barbieri, Italian painter who was the brother of Guercino
• *Filippo Brizzi, Italian painter
• *Giovanni Battista Carlone, Italian painter active mainly in Genoa
• *Pietro della Vecchia, Italian painter of grotesque paintings and portraitures
• *Hans Ulrich Franck, German historical painter and etcher
• *Mario Nuzzi, Italian painter specializing in still life painting of flower arrangements
• *Paulus Pontius, Flemish engraver
• *Giovanni Quagliata, Italian painter of frescos and large canvases depicting historical and religious subjects
• probable
• *Adriaen Hanneman, Dutch painter best known for his portraits of the exiled British royal court
• *Aert van der Neer, Dutch painter
• *Abraham Willaerts, Dutch marine painter

Deaths

• July 23 - Santi di Tito, Italian painter of Late-Mannerist or proto-Baroque style
• August/September - Hendrik van Steenwijk I, Dutch painter, earliest-known painter of architectural interiors
• December 4 - Marten de Vos, Antwerp painter and draughtsman
• date unknown
• *Étienne Dumonstier, French Renaissance portrait painter
• *Pieter Pietersz the Elder, Dutch painter
• *Joos van Winghe, Flemish painter