1590 in art

Events from the year 1590 in art.

Events

 * Gian Paolo Lomazzo produces his critical treatise Idea del tempio della pittura ("The ideal temple of painting").

Works



 * Federico Barocci - Christ and Mary Magdalen (Noli me tangere)
 * Annibale Carracci
 * Assumption of the Virgin (Museo del Prado, Madrid)
 * The Beaneater (latest likely date)
 * Antonio Circignani - Frescoes of the finding of the True Cross (Basilica of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, Rome)
 * Hendrick de Clerck - Anne with the Virgin and Child (for Kapellekerk, Brussels; now in Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium there, inventory 53)
 * Lavinia Fontana - Portrait of Gerolamo Mercuriale (approximate date)
 * School of Fontainebleau - Gabrielle d'Estrees with a Sister
 * Palma il Giovane - Francesco St Jerome, rare oil painting on copper
 * Hasegawa Tōhaku - Shōrin-zu byōbu "Pine Trees" inkwash
 * Cornelis van Haarlem – The Fall of the Titans (1588–1590)
 * Crispin van den Broeck - Two Young Men

Births

 * March 25 (bapt.) - Andries van Eertvelt, Flemish Baroque painter, primarily sea scenes (died 1652)
 * December 3 - Daniel Seghers, Jesuit brother and Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in flower still lifes (died 1661)
 * date unknown
 * Bartholomeus van Bassen, Dutch painter (died 1652)
 * Jacopo Barbello, Italian painter (died 1656)
 * Didier Barra, French Renaissance painter (died 1656)
 * Christoffel van den Berghe, Dutch painter of the Baroque period (died 1645)
 * Gregorio Bausá, Spanish painter (died 1656)
 * Juan Bautista de Espinosa, Spanish still life painter (died 1641)
 * Luciano Borzone, Italian painter with an antique style (died 1645)
 * Giovanni Bernardo Carlone, Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque periods (died 1630)
 * Bartolomeo Cavarozzi, Italian caravaggisti painter of the Baroque period active in Spain (died 1625)
 * Giovanni Battista Coriolano, Italian engraver (died 1649)
 * Felipe Diricksen, Spanish Baroque painter primarily of portraits and religious paintings (died 1679)
 * Giovanni Battista Discepoli, crippled Italian painter (died 1660)
 * Caterina Ginnasi, Italian painter of altarpieces for the church of Santa Lucia alle Botteghe Oscure (died 1660)
 * Michel Lasne, French engraver, draughtsman and collector (died 1667)
 * Floris van Schooten, Dutch painter (died 1655)
 * Raffaello Vanni, Italian painter for churches (died 1657)
 * Cornelis Verbeeck, Dutch painter (died 1637)
 * probable
 * Angelica Veronica Airola, Italian painter (died 1670)
 * Camillo Berlinghieri, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1635)
 * Giovanni Campino, Italian painter from Camerino (died 1650)
 * Abraham de Vries, Dutch painter (died 1655)
 * Paolo Domenico Finoglia, Italian painter of the early-Baroque period (died 1645)
 * Esteban March, Spanish painter (died 1660)
 * Daniël Mijtens, Dutch portrait painter (died 1647/1648)
 * Mario Righetti, Italian painter active in his native Bologna (d. unknown)

Deaths

 * February 3 - Germain Pilon, French sculptors of the French Renaissance (born 1537)
 * April 22 - Sigmund Feyerabend, German bookseller and wood-engraver (born 1528)
 * July 22 - Leone Leoni, Italian sculptor and medallist (born 1509)
 * October 12 - Kanō Eitoku, Japanese painter of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, patriarchs of the Kanō school of Japanese painting (born 1543)
 * October 29 - Dirck Coornhert, Dutch writer, engraver, philosopher, translator, politician and theologian (born 1522)
 * November 8 - Joost Janszoon Bilhamer, Dutch sculptor, engraver, and cartographer (born 1521)
 * date unknown
 * Cesare Baglioni, Italian painter specializing in quadratura (born 1525)
 * Miguel Barroso, Spanish painter (born 1538)
 * Wouter Crabeth I, Dutch glass painter (born 1510)
 * Bernaert de Rijckere, Flemish painter (born 1535)
 * Jacob Grimmer, Flemish landscape painter (born 1526)
 * Girolamo Lombardo, Italian sculptor (born 1506)
 * Domenico Poggini, Italian sculptor and engraver (born 1520)
 * Marietta Robusti, Venetian painter of the Renaissance period (born 1560)
 * probable - Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Flemish printmaker and painter associated with the English court of the mid-16th Century (born 1520)