1590 in art

Events

Works

• Annibale Carracci - The Beaneater
• Hendrick De Clerck - Anne with the Virgin and Child for the Kapellekerk in Brussels (now in the Koninklijke Musea, Brussels, inventory number 53).
• Pomerancio - Frescoes of the finding of the True Cross, at the church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome.
• School of Fontainebleau - Gabrielle d'Estrees with a Sister.

Births

• December 3 - Daniel Seghers, Jesuit brother and Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in flower still lifes (d. 1661)
• date unknown
  • Bartholomeus van Bassen, Dutch painter (d. 1652)
  • Jacopo Barbello, Italian painter (d. 1656)
  • Christoffel van den Berghe, Dutch painter of the Baroque period (d. 1645)
  • Gregorio Bausá, Spanish painter (d. 1656)
  • Juan Bautista de Espinosa, Spanish still life painter (d. 1641)
  • Luciano Borzone, Italian painter with an antique style (d. 1645)
  • Giovanni Bernardo Carlone, Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque periods (d. 1630)
  • Giovanni Battista Coriolano, Italian engraver (d. 1649)
  • Giovanni Battista Discepoli, crippled Italian painter (d. 1660)
  • Caterina Ginnasi, Italian painter of altarpieces for the church of Santa Lucia (d. 1660)
  • Esteban March, Spanish painter (d. 1660)
  • Floris van Schooten, Dutch painter (d. 1655)
  • Raffaello Vanni, Italian painter for churches (d. 1657)
  • Cornelis Verbeeck, Dutch painter (d. 1637)
• probable
  • Angelica Veronica Airola, Italian painter (d. 1670)
  • Camillo Berlinghieri, Italian painter of the Baroque period (d. 1635)
  • Giovanni Campino, Italian painter from Camerino (d. 1650)
  • Paolo Domenico Finoglia, Italian painter of the early-Baroque period (d. 1645)
  • Daniël Mijtens, Dutch portrait painter (d. 1647/1648)
  • Mario Righetti, Italian painter active in his native Bologna (d. unknown)
  • Abraham de Vries, Dutch painter (d. 1662)

Deaths

• July 22 - Leone Leoni, Italian sculptor and medallist (b. 1509)
• October 12 - Kanō Eitoku, Japanese painter of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, patriarchs of the Kanō school of Japanese painting (b. 1543)
• Cesare Baglioni – Italian painter specializing in quadratura (b. 1525)
• Niccolò Circignani – Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period (b. 1530/1535)
• Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder – Flemish printmaker and painter associated with the English court of the mid-16th Century (b. 1520)
• Domenico Poggini – Italian sculptor
• Germain Pilon – French sculptors of the French Renaissance (b. 1535)