1603 in art

Events from the year 1603 in art.

Events

 * (unknown)

Paintings

 * Caravaggio
 * The Entombment of Christ (1602-1603)
 * Sacrifice of Isaac (Uffizi)
 * Peter Paul Rubens - Portrait of a Young Woman
 * Tawaraya Sōtatsu (with calligrapher Honami Kōetsu) - Poem scroll with deer
 * Andrea Vicentino - Battle of Lepanto (Doge's Palace, Venice)

Births

 * March 2 - Pietro Novelli, Italian painter, architect and stage set designer (died 1647)
 * June 3 - Pietro Paolini, Italian painter of still lifes and cabinet pictures (died 1681)
 * date unknown
 * Pieter Jansz van Asch, Dutch painter (died 1678)
 * Cornelis Bloemaert, Dutch painter and engraver (died 1692)
 * Jan Gerritsz van Bronckhorst Dutch painter and engraver of the Baroque period (died 1661)
 * Paolo Antonio Barbieri, Italian painter who was the brother of Guercino (died 1649)
 * Filippo Brizzi, Italian painter (died 1675)
 * Giovanni Battista Carlone, Italian painter active mainly in Genoa (died 1684)
 * Pietro della Vecchia, Italian painter of grotesque paintings and portraitures (died 1678)
 * Hans Ulrich Franck, German historical painter and etcher (died 1675)
 * Mario Nuzzi, Italian painter specializing in still life painting of flower arrangements (died 1673)
 * Paulus Pontius, Flemish engraver (died 1658)
 * Giovanni Quagliata, Italian painter of frescos and large canvases depicting historical and religious subjects (died 1673)
 * probable
 * Adriaen Hanneman, Dutch painter best known for his portraits of the exiled British royal court (died 1671)
 * Aert van der Neer, Dutch painter (died 1677)
 * Abraham Willaerts, Dutch marine painter (died 1669)

Deaths

 * July 23 - Santi di Tito, Italian painter of Late-Mannerist or proto-Baroque style (born 1536)
 * August/September - Hendrik van Steenwijk I, Dutch painter, earliest-known painter of architectural interiors (born 1550)
 * December 4 - Marten de Vos, Antwerp painter and draughtsman (born 1532)
 * date unknown
 * Étienne Dumonstier, French Renaissance portrait painter (born 1540)
 * Pieter Pietersz the Elder, Dutch painter (born 1540)
 * Joos van Winghe, Flemish painter (born 1544)