1693 in art
Events from the year 1693 in art.
Events
- January 11 – A massive earthquake in Sicily leads indirectly to the development of a Sicilian Baroque style of architecture and decoration as palazzi, public buildings, cathedrals and churches require reconstruction.
Paintings
[Image:Thousandpeaks.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Wang Hui, A Thousand Peaks and Myriad Ravines, 1693]- Wang Hui – A Thousand Peaks and Myriad Ravines
- Godfrey Kneller – Portrait of Hortense Mancini
- Hyacinthe Rigaud – Portrait of Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark
- Jan Wyck – ''The Battle of the Boyne''
Births
- May 31 – Bartolomeo Nazari, Italian portraitist date unknown
- * Placido Campolo, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period
- * Georg Rafael Donner, Austrian sculptor
- * Zheng Xie, Chinese painter of orchids, bamboo, and stones; one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou probable – Bernardino Ludovisi, Italian sculptor
Deaths
- April 20 – Claudio Coello, Spanish Baroque painter
- July 31 – Willem Kalf, Dutch painter
- November – Nicolaes Maes, Dutch Baroque painter of genre works and portraits
- November 12 – Maria van Oosterwijck, Dutch Baroque painter, specializing in richly detailed still-lifes
- December 13 – Willem van de Velde the Elder, Dutch painter date unknown
- * Johann Franz Ermels, German painter and engraver
- * Dirck Ferreris, Dutch Golden Age painter
- * Hendrik Graauw, Dutch Golden Age painter
- * Bartolomé Pérez, Spanish painter of flowers and still lifes
- * Giovan Battista Ruoppolo, Neapolitan painter, notable for still-lifes
- * Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, Carniolan nobleman, scientist, writer, draughtsman, and polymath