1617 in art

Events from the year 1617 in art.

Events

Kanō Tan'yū becomes an official artist of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Lucas Vorsterman joins the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens, soon becoming Rubens's primary engraver.

Works

Abu al-Hasan - Shah Jahangir
Gian Lorenzo Bernini - marble sculptures
*The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
*with Pietro Bernini - Boy with a Dragon
Frans Hals - Shrovetide Revellers
Peter Paul Rubens
*Adoration of the Magi
*Mars and Rhea Silvia
Nicholas Stone - floor tomb of Sir William Curle in St Etheldreda's church, Old Hatfield, England
Diego Velázquez - The Lunch
Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom - ''Dutch Ships Ramming Spanish Galleys off the Flemish Coast in October 1602''

Births

January 19 – Lucas Faydherbe, Dutch sculptor and architect
January 22 – Ludovicus Neefs, Flemish painter
February 5 – Jan Thomas van Ieperen, Flemish painter and engraver
May – John Michael Wright, English baroque portrait painter
August 10 – Ambrosius Brueghel, Flemish painter
October 17 – Dionisio Lazzari, Italian sculptor and architect
November 19 – Eustache Le Sueur, co-founder of the French Academy of painting
November 21 – Tosa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter
December – Gerard ter Borch, Dutch subject painter
December 7 – Evaristo Baschenis, Italian Baroque painter primarily of still lifes
December 31 – Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter best known for his religious works date unknown
*Emanuel de Witte, Dutch perspective painter
*Pellegrino Piola, Italian painter
*Paolo Porpora, Italian painter of floral still lifes
*Carlo Sacchi, Italian painter and engraver

Deaths

January 1 – Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch printmaker, draughtsman and painter
September – Louis Finson - Flemish painter of the Dutch Golden Age
October 2 – Isaac Oliver, French-born English portrait miniature painter
date unknown
*Fabrizio Castello, Italian painter of Genoese origin settled in Spain
*Hans Ruprecht Hoffmann, German sculptor
*Giovanni Battista Vernici, Italian painter
*Andrea Vicentino, Italian Mannerist painter