1596 in art

Events from the year 1596 in art.

Events

 * (unknown)

Paintings

 * Federico Barocci - Annunciation (Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Assisi)
 * Caravaggio
 * The Lute Player
 * Medusa (first version)
 * Annibale Carracci - The Choice of Hercules

Births

 * January 13 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch landscape painter (died 1656)
 * February 2 - Jacob van Campen, Dutch artist and architect of the Golden Age (died 1657)
 * April - Juan van der Hamen, Spanish still life painter (died 1631)
 * May - Abraham van Diepenbeeck, Dutch painter of the Flemish School (died 1675)
 * June 5 - Peter Wtewael, Dutch painter, son of Joachim Wtewael (died 1660)
 * October 1 - Cesare Dandini, Italian painter (died 1657)
 * October 5 - Pieter van Mierevelt, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1623)
 * November 1 – Pietro da Cortona, pseudonym of Pietro Berettini, prolific artist and architect of High Baroque (died 1669)
 * December 24 - Leonaert Bramer, Dutch painter (died 1674)
 * date unknown
 * Antonio Bisquert, Spanish painter of the Baroque period (died 1646)
 * Obaku Dokuryu, Japanese calligrapher and painter (died 1672)
 * Andrea di Leone, Italian painter of battle scenes (died 1675)
 * Xiao Yuncong, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet in the late Ming Dynasty (died 1673)
 * probable
 * Thomas de Keyser, Dutch painter and architect (died 1667)
 * Antonio Catalani, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods (d. unknown)

Deaths

 * July 10 - Alessandro Alberti, Italian painter (born 1551)
 * date unknown
 * Hans Donauer, German painter (b. c.1521)
 * George Gower, English portrait painter who became sergeant-painter to Queen Elizabeth I (born 1540)
 * Nicholas Francken of Herenthals, Flemish painter (b. unknown)
 * Dario Varotari the Elder, Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (b. c.1539)
 * Pedro de Villegas Marmolejo, Spanish sculptor and painter (born 1519)
 * probable
 * Niccolò Circignani, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period (born 1517/1524)
 * Pellegrino Tibaldi, Italian mannerist architect, sculptor, and mural painter (born 1527)