1615 in art

Events

• Easter - Persian Safavid hordes led by Shah Abbas the Great kill all the monks at the David Gareja monastery complex in Georgia and set fire to its collection of manuscripts and works of art.
• September - Inigo Jones appointed Surveyor-General of the King's Works in England.

Paintings

• Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens - The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man
• Claude Deruet - Hasekura Tsunenaga in Rome
• Domenico Fiasella
• *Christ Healing the Blind
• *Christ Raising the Son of the Widow of Nain
• Jacob Jordaens - Self-Portrait with Parents, Brothers, and Sisters
• Mesrop of Khizan
• *The Baptism of Christ
• *Saint John the Evangelist
• Guido Reni - Aurora and Apollo
• Peter Paul Rubens
• *A Statue of Ceres
• *Daniel in the Lion's Den
• *Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia
• *Venus at the Mirror
• Joachim Wtewael - ''The Judgement of Paris''

Births

• January 25 - Govert Flinck, painter of the Dutch Golden Age
• June 20 - Salvator Rosa, Italian painter, poet and printmaker
• date unknown
• *Samuel Bernard, French miniature painter and engraver
• *Alfonso Boschi, Italian painter, active mainly in Florence
• *Pieter de Ring, Dutch painter famous for his opulent, flashy still lifes
• *Gaspard Dughet, French painter
• *Daniel Schultz, Polish-Lithuanian painter
• *Zha Shibiao, landscape painter and calligrapher from Anhui
• *Fyodor Zubov, Russian painter, engraver, miniaturist and illuminator
• probable
• *Luca Forte, Italian painter of still-lifes in Naples
• *Jacob Peter Gowy, Flemish Baroque painter of The Flight of Icarus
• *Abraham van den Hecken, Dutch painter of genre pieces, religious and historical scenes, portraits and still lifes
• *Joris van der Haagen, Dutch painter

Deaths

• March 4 - Hans von Aachen, German mannerist painter
• August 15 - Mir Emad Hassani, Persian Nastaʿlīq script calligrapher
• August 25 - Pietro Francavilla, Franco-Flemish sculptor
• October 18 - Cherubino Alberti or Borghegiano, Italian engraver and painter
• December 23 - Bartolomeo Schedoni, Italian painter
• date unknown
• *Giulio Bruni, Italian painter
• *Jan de Hoey, Dutch painter
• *Francesco Stringa, Italian court painter for Duke Ranuccio I Farnese
• *Cesare Torelli, Italian painter
• probable - Farrukh Beg, Mughal painter who served in the court of Muhammad Hakim