1608 in art

Events

Paintings

• Caravaggio
  • The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
  • Portrait of Fra Antonio Martelli
  • Sleeping Cupid
  • John the Baptist (St John the Baptist at the Fountain)
  • Annunciation
  • Burial of St. Lucy

Births

• April/May - Pieter Post, Dutch architect, painter and printmaker (d. 1669)
• October 30 - Lazzaro Morelli, sculptor (d. 1690)
• date unknown
  • Salvi Castellucci, Italian painter active in Arezzo (d. 1672)
  • Niccolo Laniere, Italian painter and engraver (d. 1646)
  • Willem de Poorter, Dutch painter (d. 1648)
  • Giacomo Torelli, Italian set designer and engraver (d. 1678)
  • Abraham Wuchters, Dutch-Danish painter and engraver (d. 1682)
• (b. 1608/1612): Giovanni Stefano Danedi Italian painter of frescoes (d. 1690)

Deaths

• June - Bernardo Buontalenti, Italian stage designer, architect, theatrical designer, military engineer and artist (born 1536)
• June 5 - Ippolito Andreasi, painter (born 1548)
• July 26 - Pablo de Céspedes, Spanish painter, poet, and architect (b. 1538)
• August 13 - Giambologna, sculptor of marble and bronze statuary (b. 1529)
• October 11 – Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Italian painter (b. c.1549/1551)
• October 26 - Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Spanish painter (born 1553)
• November 14 - Bartolomeo Carducci, Italian painter (b. 1560)
• date unknown - Alessandro Vittoria, Italian Mannerist sculptor of the Venetian school (b. 1525)