1584 in art

Events from the year 1584 in art.

Events

 * Giacomo della Porta completes the façade of the Church of the Gesu in Rome.
 * Dutch Golden Age painting begins.

Works

 * Annibale Carracci – The Beaneater (possible date)
 * Lavinia Fontana
 * Assumption of the Virgin with Saints Peter Chrysologus and Cassian
 * Portrait of the Coozzadini Family
 * Matteo Perez d'Aleccio – Saint Christopher carrying the Infant Saviour on his shoulder (fresco, Seville Cathedral)
 * Tintoretto – Capture of Zara from the Hungarians in 1346 amid a hurricane of missiles (Sala deilo Scrutinio, Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice)

Births

 * February 2 - Anna Visscher, Dutch artist, poet, and translator (died 1651)
 * date unknown
 * Pietro Francesco Alberti, Italian painter and engraver for the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods (died 1638)
 * Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo, Italian painter active mainly in Genoa (died 1638)
 * Giacomo Apollonio, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods (died 1654)
 * David Bailly, Leiden artist (died 1657)
 * Cesare Bassano, Italian painter and engraver (died 1648)
 * Felice Damiani, Italian painter of religious themed works and altarpieces (died 1608)
 * Jean de Beaugrand, French lineographer and mathematician (died 1640)
 * Pieter de Valck, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1625)
 * Cornelis de Vos, Flemish Baroque painter (died 1651)
 * Rafael Sadeler II, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family (died 1627/1632)
 * Shōkadō Shōjō, Japanese Edo period Buddhist monk, painter, calligrapher and master of the tea ceremony (died 1639)
 * Jan Tengnagel, Dutch painter (died 1631)
 * Jacob van der Laemen, Flemish painter (died 1624)
 * probable
 * Willem van der Vliet, Dutch painter and uncle of Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet (died 1642)

Deaths

 * January 4 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and illustrator (born 1539)
 * January 30 - Pieter Pourbus, Dutch-born Flemish Renaissance painter (born 1523)
 * May 22 - Ludger tom Ring the Younger, German painter and draughtsman (born 1522)
 * May 25 - Prospero Spani, Italian sculptor (born 1516)
 * August 29 - Lucas de Heere, Flemish portrait painter, poet and writer (born 1534)
 * date unknown
 * Pieter Balten - Flemish Renaissance painter (born 1525)
 * Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau, French architect, sculptor, designer (born 1510)
 * Giovanni Filippo Criscuolo, Italian painter (born c.1500)
 * Jacques du Broeucq, Dutch sculptor and architect (born c.1505)
 * Hu Zhengyan, Chinese artist, printmaker, calligrapher and publisher (died 1674)
 * Pierre Reymond, French enamelist (born 1513)
 * probable
 * Pieter Huys, Flemish painter (born 1519)
 * Lambert Sustris, Dutch painter (born 1515/1520)