1622 in art

Events

• April – Diego Velázquez moves from Seville to Madrid.

Paintings

• Artemisia Gentileschi – Portrait of a Condottiero
• Guercino – Et in Arcadia ego
• Frans Hals – Marriage Portrait of Isaac Massa and Beatrix van der Laen
• Gerard van Honthorst – Adoration of the Shepherds
• Pieter Lastman – The Angel and the Prophet Balaam
• Johann Liss – Judith in the Tent of Holofernes
• Guido Reni - St. Francis in Ecstasy
• Dirck van Baburen
• * Backgammon Players
• * Christ among the Doctors
• * The Lute Player
• * The Procuress
• * Young Man Singing
• Esaias van de Velde – The Cattle Ferry
• Anthony van Dyck – Teresia, Lady Shirley
• Diego Velázquez
• * La mulata
• * ''Portrait of Don Luis de Góngora''

Births

• February 18 - Thomas Regnaudin, French sculptor
• February 27 – Carel Fabritius, Dutch painter who works in Rembrandt's studio in Amsterdam
• May 4 – Juan de Valdés Leal, Spanish Baroque painter
• date unknown
• *Luo Mu, Chinese painter, poet and prose writer
• *Giovanni Maria Morandi, Italian painter of altarpieces
• *Theodore Poulakis, Greek Renaissance painter
• probable
• *Dominique Barrière, French painter and engraver
• *Abraham Lambertsz van den Tempel, Dutch Golden Age painter

Deaths

• April 15 - Leandro Bassano, Venetian artist and younger brother of Francesco Bassano the Younger
• May 17 - Leonello Spada, Italian Caravaggisto specializing in decorative quadratura painting
• June 3 - Francesco Carracci, Italian painter and engraver
• June 22 - Bernardino Cesari, Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early Baroque period
• August 10 - Giovanni Battista Viola, Italian painter of landscape canvases
• December 12 - Bartolomeo Manfredi, Italian painter, a leading member of the Caravaggisti
• date unknown
• *Costantini de' Servi, Italian painter
• *Aurelio Lomi, Italian painter of frescoes
• *Vespasiano Strada, Italian painter and engraver
• *Gillis van Valckenborch, Flemish painter