1588 in art

Events from the year 1588 in art.

Events

 * Opificio delle pietre dure established in Florence.
 * Cornelis van Haarlem starts working on The Fall of the Titans

Paintings

 * Annibale Carracci – approximate date
 * Landscape with a Fishing Scene (Musée du Louvre)
 * Venus with a Satyr and Cupids (Uffizi)
 * Hendrik Goltzius – The Four Disgracers (engravings)
 * George Gower – Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I of England
 * Cornelis van Haarlem - Baptism of Christ
 * Nicholas Hilliard – Young Man Among Roses
 * Kaspar Memberger the Elder – Building of the Ark
 * Hans von Aachen – The Judgement of Paris (approximate date)

Births

 * January 10 – Nicolaes Eliaszoon Pickenoy, Dutch painter of Flemish origin (died 1653/1656)
 * January 20 – Francesco Gessi, Italian painter of frescoes (died 1649)
 * September 10 (bapt.) – Nicholas Lanier, English composer, singer, lutenist, painter and art collector (died 1666)
 * date unknown
 * Claude Deruet, French Baroque painter (died 1660)
 * Giuseppe Badaracco, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1657)
 * Marco Antonio Bassetti, Italian painter (died 1630)
 * Ilario Casolano, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1661)
 * Hendrick ter Brugghen, Dutch painter, and a leading member of the Dutch followers of Caravaggio (died 1629)
 * Jan Sadeler II, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family (died 1665)
 * Cristóbal Vela, Spanish Baroque painter and gilder (died 1654)

Deaths

 * March 9 – Pomponio Amalteo, Italian painter of the Venetian school (born 1505)
 * April 19 – Paolo Veronese, Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice (born 1528)
 * August 8 – Alonso Sánchez Coello, portrait painter of the Spanish Renaissance (born 1531/1532)
 * date unknown
 * Marco Marchetti, Italian painter (born 1528)
 * Jacques le Moyne de Morgues, French artist and member of Jean Ribault's expedition to the New World (born 1533)
 * Plautilla Nelli, Florentine religious painter and nun (born 1524)
 * Jacopo Strada, Italian painter, architect, goldsmith, inventor of machines, numismatist, linguist, collector and merchant of works of art (born 1507)