1593 in art

Events

* (unknown)

Paintings

*Caravaggio - "Boy with a Basket of Fruit"

Births

* Artemisia Gentileschi - an Italian Baroque painter (d. c.1652)
* Georges de La Tour, painter from the Duchy of Lorraine, now in France (d. 1652)
* Jacob Jordaens - Flemish Baroque painter from the Antwerp school of painting (d. 1678)
* Matthäus Merian - Swiss engraver (d. 1650)
* Giovanni Battista Barbiani - Italian painter of the Baroque period (d. 1650)
* Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen - Dutch portrait painter (d. 1661)
* Willem van Haecht - Flemish painter (d. 1637)
* Ercole Sarti - Italian deaf-mute painter of the Baroque period, active in Ferrara (d. "unknown")
* Louis Le Nain - French painter of the Le Nain family of painters (d. 1648)
* Ni Yuanlu - Chinese calligrapher and painter during the Ming Dynasty (d. 1644)

Deaths

*Giuseppe Arcimboldo - Italian painter best known for creating portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, and flowers (b. 1527)
* Jean Cousin the Elder - French painter, sculptor, etcher, engraver, and geometrician (b. 1500)
* Xu Wei - Ming Chinese painter, poet and dramatist (b. 1521)