1597 in art

Events from the year 1597 in art.

Works

 * Federico Barocci - Nativity (Museo del Prado)
 * Caravaggio
 * Penitent Magdalene
 * Rest on the Flight into Egypt
 * Medusa (second version)
 * Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto (Villa Ludovisi, Rome)
 * Dong Qichang - Wanluan Thatched Hall
 * Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, in Garter robes (approximate date)
 * El Greco - The Saint Joseph and the Christ Child (including a view of Toledo, Spain)
 * Christ Pantocrator together with the twelve apostles, above the entrance gate of the Holy Virgin main church in the Rohzen Monastery, Bulgaria

Births

 * February 2 - Jacob van Campen, Dutch artist and architect of the Golden Age (died 1657)
 * March 10 - Ercole Gennari, Italian Renaissance drawer and painter (died 1658)
 * June 9 - Pieter Jansz Saenredam, Dutch painter of structures, architectural portraitist (died 1665)
 * July 2 - Theodoor Rombouts, Flemish painter (died 1637)
 * September 28 - Justus Sustermans, Flemish painter in the Baroque style (died 1681)
 * date unknown
 * Claude Audran the Elder, French engraver (died 1677)
 * Orfeo Boselli, Italian sculptor working in Rome (died 1667)
 * Salomon de Bray (or Braij), Dutch painter (died 1664)
 * Pedro de Obregón, Spanish painter and printmaker (died 1659)
 * Henricus Hondius II, Dutch engraver, cartographer and publisher (died 1651)
 * Juan Ribalta, Spanish painter (died 1628)
 * Xiang Shengmo, Chinese painter in the Qing Dynasty (died 1658)
 * probable
 * Jan van Bijlert, Dutch painter, co-founder of the Bentvueghels (died 1671)
 * Pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter (died 1660)
 * Giacomo di Castro, Italian painter (died 1687)
 * Ludovico Lana, Italian painter, mainly active in Modena (died 1646)
 * Johann Liss, German-born painter (died c. 1631)

Deaths

 * February 2 - Lucas van Valckenborch, Flemish landscape painter (b. c.1535)
 * September 28 - Hendrick van den Broeck, Flemish painter active mainly in Rome (born 1519)
 * date unknown
 * Giovanni Battista de'Cavalieri, Italian engraver (born 1526)
 * Prospero Fontana, Italian painter of the late Renaissance (born 1512)
 * Francesco Morandini, Italian painter active in Florence (born 1544)
 * Willem Thibaut, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1524)