1604 in art

Events

• Robert Peake the Elder is appointed picture maker to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales.

Publications

• Karel van Mander - ''Schilder-boeck''

Paintings

• Annibale Carracci
• *Landscape with the Flight into Egypt
• *The Martyrdom of St. Stephen
• *Monsignor Agucchi
• *Self-portrait
• Caravaggio
• *John the Baptist (Kansas City)
• *John the Baptist (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome)
• *The Crowning with Thorns (Prato)

Births

• February 6 - Jean Varin, French sculptor and engraver
• July 8 - Christiaen van Couwenbergh, Dutch Golden Age painter
• September 21 - Angelo Michele Colonna, Italian painter of frescoes
• date unknown
• *François Anguier, French sculptor
• *Mario Balassi, Italian painter
• *Giovanni Giacomo Barbelli, Italian painter, active in Brescia
• *Charles Beaubrun, French portrait painter
• *Bartolommeo Bianco, Italian architect, engineer, and painter
• *Luigi Baccio del Bianco, Italian architect, engineer, scenic designer and painter
• *Pierre Daret, French portrait painter and engraver
• *Chöying Dorje, 10th Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism and a painter and sculptor
• *Gijsbert d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter of barnyard fowl, father of Melchior d'Hondecoeter.
• *Johann Anton Eismann, Austrian painter
• *Giovanni Battista Michelini, Italian painter of religious and mythological subjects
• *Jan Baptist van Heil, Flemish painter
• *Cheng Zhengkui, Chinese landscape painter and poet
• probable
• *Jan Boeckhorst, German-born Flemish Baroque painter
• *Viviano Codazzi, Italian architectural painter

Deaths

• March 1 -, German sculptor
• date unknown
• *Pier Angelo Basili, Italian painter born in Gubbio
• *Ottavio Semini, Italian painter born and trained in Genoa
• probable - William Rogers, English engraver