1599 in art

Events from the year 1599 in art.

Events

 * July 23 - Caravaggio receives his first public commission for paintings.

Works

 * Paul Bril – Mountain Scene (miniature)
 * Caravaggio
 * Basket of Fruit
 * Judith Beheading Holofernes
 * David and Goliath
 * Narcissus
 * Pieter Pietersz the Elder – Poor Parents, Rich Children
 * Hendrick van Balen the Elder – The Judgement of Paris

Births

 * February 15 - Pope Alexander II, Papal patron of the arts commissioned architectural and sculptural works by Gianlorenzo Bernini (died 1667)
 * March 22 – Anthony van Dyck, Flemish Baroque artist who became England's leading court painter (died 1641)
 * June – Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (died 1660)
 * September 25 – Francesco Borromini (Francesco Castelli), prominent and influential Baroque architect in Rome (died 1667)
 * November 30 – Andrea Sacchi, Italian painter of High Baroque Classicism (died 1661)
 * December – Pieter van Laer, Dutch painter of genre scenes (died 1642)
 * December 11 – Pieter Codde, Dutch painter of genre works (died 1678)
 * date unknown
 * Francisco Collantes, Spanish Baroque era painter (died 1656)
 * Willem Cornelisz Duyster, Dutch painter from Amsterdam (died 1635)
 * Jan Miel, Flemish painter (died 1663)
 * Gerrit Reynst, Dutch merchant and art collector (died 1658)
 * Giovanni Battista Vanni, Italian painter of frescoes and engraver (died 1660)
 * Robert Walker – English portrait painter (died 1658)
 * probable
 * Bartolommeo Coriolano, Italian engraver (died 1676)
 * Antioine Le Nain, French painter of the Le Nain family of painters (died 1648)

Deaths

 * October 27 - Gillis Coignet, painter (born 1540)
 * date unknown
 * Alberto di Giovanni Alberti, Tuscan architect, wood carver and painter (born 1525)
 * Antoine Caron, French master glassmaker, illustrator, Mannerist painter and a master (teacher) at the School of Fontainebleau (born 1521)
 * Valerio Cioli, Italian sculptor (born 1529)
 * Gillis Coignet, Flemish painter (born 1542)
 * Wendel Dietterlin, German painter/architect, wrote treatise on the five orders entitled Architectura (1598) filled with Mannerist ornament (born 1550)
 * Giuseppe Meda, Italian painter, architect and hydraulics engineer (born c.1534)
 * Dominicus Lampsonius, Flemish poet and artist (born 1532)
 * Francesco Potenzano, Italian painter, poet, and promoter
 * Friedrich Sustris, Italian-born Dutch painter working in Bavaria (born c.1540)
 * Mayken Verhulst, Flemish miniaturist and watercolour painter (born 1518)
 * Pierre Woeiriot, French engraver, goldsmith, painter, sculptor and medallist (born 1532)