1599 in art

Events

Jul 23: Caravaggio receives his first public commission for paintings

Works

*Caravaggio painted "Basket of Fruit"
*Caravaggio painted "Judith Beheading Holofernes"
*Caravaggio painted "David and Goliath"
*Caravaggio painted "Narcissus"

Births

* June - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)
* September 25 - Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli, prominent and influential Baroque architect in Rome (d. 1667)
* Anthony van Dyck - Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England (d. 1641)
* Jan Miel - Flemish painter (d. 1663)
* Pieter Codde - Dutch painter of genre works (d. 1678)
* Willem Cornelisz Duyster - Dutch painter from Amsterdam (d. 1635)
* Pieter van Laer - Dutch painter of genre scenes (d. 1642)
* Francisco Collantes - Spanish Baroque era painter (d. 1656)
* Bartolommeo Coriolano - Italian engraver of the Baroque period (d. 1676)
* Andrea Sacchi - Italian painter of High Baroque Classicism (d. 1661)
* Giovanni Battista Vanni - Italian painter of frescoes and engraver (d. 1660)
* Antioine Le Nain - French painter of the Le Nain family of painters (d. 1648)

Deaths

* Antoine Caron - French master glassmaker, illustrator, Mannerist painter and a master (teacher) at the School of Fontainebleau (b. 1521)
* Wendel Dietterlin, German painter/architect, wrote treatise on the five orders entitled "Architectura" (1598) filled with Mannerist ornament