1606 in art

Events

• May 29 – Caravaggio kills a young man in a brawl in Rome. Sentenced to beheading, he flees the city.

Works

• Caravaggio
• *Death of the Virgin
• *Madonna di Loreto
• *Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy
• *Portrait of Pope Paul V
• *Saint Francis in Prayer
• *Saint Jerome Writing
• *Supper at Emmaus
• John de Critz – James VI and I
• Frans Francken the Younger – The Witches' Sabbath
• Peter Paul Rubens
• *The Judgement of Paris
• *Portraits of
• **Marchesa Brigida Spinola-Doria
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Births

• February 27 – Laurent de La Hire, French painter
• April – Jan Davidsz de Heem, Dutch painter
• May 3 – Lorenzo Lippi, Italian painter and poet
• May 12 – Joachim von Sandrart, German art-historian and painter
• July 15 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter
• date unknown
• *Theodoor van Thulden, Dutch artist from 's-Hertogenbosch in North Brabant
• *Charles Errard, French painter, architect and engraver
• *Giacinto Gimignani, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome, during the Baroque period
• *Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter
• *Pieter Quast, Dutch painter
• *Pietro Ricchi, Italian painter of the altarpiece for a church in Lucca
• probable
• *: Viviano Codazzi, Italian painter of landscapes or vedute
• *: Johannes Bosschaert, member of the Bosschaert family of still life painters
• *Joan Carlile, née Palmer, English professional portrait painter
• *Isaack Gilsemans, Dutch merchant and artist
• *Anthonie Jansz. van der Croos, Dutch painter

Deaths

• August 6 – Ottaviano Nonni, Italian architect, sculptor, and painter
• September 2 – Karel van Mander, Flemish painter, poet and biographer
• date unknown
• *Tiziano Aspetti, Italian sculptor
• *Andrea Boscoli, Florentine painter
• *Giovanni Maria Butteri, Italian painter primarily of frescoes
• *Alessandro Casolano, Italian painter primarily working in Siena
• *Giovanni Battista Fiammeri, Florentine Jesuit painter
• *Lodovico Leoni, Italian painter mainly active in Rome
• *Jan Vermeyen, Dutch goldsmith of the Renaissance Mannerism
• probable - Paolo Farinati, Italian painter of the Mannerist style