1616 in art

Events

• Jacob Jordaens marries the daughter of his teacher, Adam van Noort.
• Peter Paul Rubens begins work on classical tapestries for Genoese merchant Franco Cattaneo following signing of a contract in Antwerp with cloth dyers Jan Raes and Frans Sweerts.

Paintings

• Hendrik Goltzius - Lot and his Daughters
• Guercino - Moonlit Landscape
• Cornelis van Haarlem – Allegory of Vanity and Repentance
• Frans Hals - The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company
• Jacob Jordaens
• * Abduction of Europa
• * Adoration of the Shepherds
• * The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt
• Isaac Oliver - Portrait miniature of John Donne
• Peter Paul Rubens
• * Erichthonius discovered by the daughters of Cecrops
• * The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt
• * Tiger, Lion and Leopard Hunt
• * Portrait of a Young Girl
• * Romulus and Remus
• Sigismund of Seeon - Trithemius sui ipsius vindex sive Steganographiae
• Simon van de Passe - Engraving of Pocahontas

Sculptures

• Gian Lorenzo Bernini
• * Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children
• * Bust of Giovanni Battista Santoni
• Pietro Bernini - Flora
• Pietro and Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Autumn
• Giambologna - Equestrian statue of Philip III of Spain

Births

• February 2 - Sébastien Bourdon, French painter and engraver
• May 25 - Carlo Dolci, Italian painter of chiefly sacred subjects
• June 24 - Ferdinand Bol, Dutch artist, etcher, and draftsman
• September - Philips Angel, Dutch painter
• date unknown
• *Bernardo Cavallino, Italian painter of the Baroque period working in Naples
• *Pierfrancesco Cittadini, Italian painter of still life
• *Pietro del Po, Italian painter
• *Isaack Luttichuys, Dutch Golden Age portrait painter
• *Jean Michelin, French Protestant painter
• *Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia, Italian painter and artist biographer of the Baroque period
• *Sokuhi Nyoitsu, Buddhist monk of the Obaku Zen sect, poet and calligrapher
• Henri Testelin, French court painter
• Caesar van Everdingen – Dutch portrait painter

Deaths

• January - Orazio Borgianni, Italian painter and etcher of the Mannerist and early-baroque periods
• August 8 - Cornelis Ketel, Dutch Mannerist painter
• date unknown
• *Matteo Perez d'Aleccio, Italian painter of devotional, historical and maritime subjects during the Mannerist period
• *Jacques Bellange, French artist and printmaker from Lorraine
• *Orazio Farinati, Italian Mannerist painter
• *Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Quechua noble man known for illustrating a chronicle of the native peoples of the Andes
• *Siyâvash, Iranian Georgian miniature illustrator