1613 in art

Events

• April 27 – Inigo Jones is appointed Surveyor of the King's Works in England.
• August 11 – Cesare Corte, after a period imprisoned by the Roman Inquisition, confesses and undergoes a public abjuration of his heretical beliefs. He dies in prison a few weeks later.

Paintings

• Cristofano Allori – Judith with the Head of Holofernes
• Jan Brueghel the Elder – The Entry of the Animals Into Noah's Ark
• Lavinia Fontana – Minerva Dressing
• Hendrik Goltzius – Adam and ''Eve''

Births

• February 24 – Mattia Preti, Italian Baroque artist who worked in Italy and Malta
• March 12 – André Le Nôtre, landscape architect
• April 7 – Gerrit Dou, Dutch painter, pupil of Rembrandt
• October 12 – Jacques d'Arthois, Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in landscapes date unknown
• *Pier Martire Armani, Italian painter
• *Gian Pietro Bellori, Italian painter, antiquarian and biographer of artists
• *Marco Boschini, Italian painter of the early-Baroque period in Venice
• *Giovanni Maria Bottala, Italian painter
• *Conrad Buno, German copperplate engraver, cartographer and publisher
• *Giulio Carpioni, Italian painter and etcher of the early Baroque era
• *Dirck Cornelis de Hooch, Dutch portrait painter
• *Pieter de Bailliu, Flemish engraver
• *Aniella di Beltrano, Italian painter
• *Cornelis Mahu, Flemish painter
• *Giovanni Paolo Oderico, Italian painter mainly active in Genoa
• *Antonio Travi, deaf Italian landscape painter
• *Giulio Trogli, Italian painter nicknamed il Paradosso
• *Bartholomeus van der Helst, Dutch portrait painter
• *Jacob van der Roer van Dordrecht, Dutch Golden Age portrait painter

Deaths

• February 27 – Pietro Facchetti, Italian painter primarily of portraits
• March 13 – Giovanni Battista Caccini, Italian sculptor
• March 23 – Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont, Spanish soldier, painter, musician and inventor
• March 25 – Taddeo Carlone, Swiss-Italian sculptor and architect
• July – Giovan Battista Cavagna, architect, engineer and painter
• June 18 – Cigoli, Italian painter and architect of the late Mannerist period
• July 19 – Nicolaus van Aelst, Flemish engraver and painter
• date unknown
• *Durante Alberti, Italian painter, member of family of artists
• *Cesare Corte, Italian painter active mainly in his natal city of Genoa
• *Ercole dell'Abate, Italian painter
• *Giovanni Battista da Ponte, Italian painter active in Venice and his native Bassano del Grappa
• *Simone de Magistris, Italian painter and sculptor
• *Ventura Salimbeni, Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker