1592 in art

Events

Works

*Giuseppe Cesari - Cappella Olgiati in Santa Prassede
*Tintoretto begins work on the "Last Supper" fresco (San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice; completed in 1594)
*Caravaggio paints "Boy Peeling Fruit"

Births

*March 20 - Giovanni da San Giovanni, Italian painter (d. 1636)
*September 5 - Jacopo Vignali, Florentine painter (d. 1664)
* Balthazar Gerbier, Dutch art advisor and designer at the English court (d. 1663)
* Gerard van Honthorst - Dutch painter of Utrecht (d. 1656)
* Claes Corneliszoon Moeyaert - Catholic Dutch painter (d. 1655)
* Jacob Pynas - Dutch painters of the Baroque period (d. 1650)
* Giulio Benso - Genovese painter of the early Baroque (d. 1668)
* Wang Shimin - Chinese landscape painter during the Ch'ing Dynasty (d. 1680)
* Shao Mi - Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty (d. 1642)
* Wang Duo - Chinese calligrapher and painter in Ming Dynasty (d. 1652)

Deaths

* February 13 - Jacopo Bassano, painter (born c1515)
* March 5 - Michael Coxcie, painter (born 1499)
* Bartolomeo Ammanati, architect and sculptor (born 1511)
* Francesco Bassano the Younger, painter (born 1559)
* Girolamo Muziano, painter (born 1532)
* Dirck Barendsz - Dutch painter who was born and died in Amsterdam (b. 1534)
* Willem Boy - Flemish painter, sculptor, and architect (b. "unknown")
* Aurelio Luini - Italian painter from Milan (b. 1530)