1594 in art

Events from the year 1594 in art.

Events

 * Hendrick de Clerck becomes court painter to Archduke Ernest of Austria.

Paintings

 * Caravaggio
 * The Cardsharps
 * The Fortune Teller
 * Ludovico Carracci – Transfiguration
 * Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger – Captain Thomas Lee
 * Tommaso Laureti – Frescos in Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome (1587–94)
 * Tintoretto – The Last Supper (fresco in San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, 1592–94)
 * Second School of Fontainebleau – Gabrielle d'Estrées and one of her sisters (Louvre, Paris)

Sculpture

 * Black Christ of Esquipulas

Births

 * March 25 - Maria Tesselschade Visscher, Dutch poet and engraver (died 1649)
 * June 15 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter in the classical style (died 1665)
 * July 10 - Bartolomeo Gennari, Italian Renaissance painter (died 1661)
 * December - Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, Dutch portrait and landscape painter (died 1652)
 * December 14 - Willem Claeszoon Heda, Dutch artist devoted exclusively to the painting of still life (died 1680)
 * date unknown
 * Charles Audran, French engraver (died 1674)
 * Giovanni Battista Barca, Italian painter (died 1650)
 * Peter Oliver, English miniaturist (died 1648)
 * Clara Peeters, Flemish still life painter (died c.1657)
 * Carlo Ridolfi, Italian art biographer and painter (died 1658)
 * Cornelis van Poelenburgh, Dutch painter (died 1667)

Deaths

 * May 31 – Tintoretto (real name Jacopo Comin) Italian painter of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance (born 1518)
 * date unknown
 * Cristóvão Lopes, Portuguese portrait and altarpiece painter (born 1516)
 * Francisco Venegas, Spanish painter active in Portugal (born 1525)