1605 in art

Events from the year 1605 in art.

Events

 * (unknown)

Paintings

 * Caravaggio
 * Christ on the Mount of Olives
 * Ecce Homo
 * Saint Jerome in Meditation
 * Madonna and Child with St. Anne (Dei Palafrenieri)
 * Domenichino (c.1604–05)
 * Landscape with fishermen, hunters and washerwomen (Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford)
 * Landscape with Fording (Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome)
 * Portrait of Cardinal Girolamo Agucchi (Uffizi, Florence)
 * A Virgin with a Unicorn (Palazzo Farnese, Rome; fresco to a design by Carracci)
 * Nicholas Hilliard - miniature portrait of Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham
 * Guido Reni - David with the Head of Goliath
 * Peter Paul Rubens - The Fall of Phaeton (approximate date of original completion)
 * Joachim Wtewael - The Judgement of Paris (approximate date)
 * Domenico Zampieri - portrait of Cardinal Agucchi

Births

 * February 17 - Luca Ferrari, Italian painter (died 1654)
 * May 29 - Hendrick van Anthonissen, Dutch marine painter (died 1656)
 * August - Ercole Procaccini the Younger, Italian painter of altarpieces, later director of the academy established by the Procaccini (died 1675/1680)
 * date unknown
 * Ottavio Amigoni, Italian painter, active in Brescia (died 1661)
 * Jacopo Baccarini – Italian painter of the Baroque period born in Reggio Emilia (died 1682)
 * Carlo Biffi, Italian painter (died 1675)
 * Carlo Bozzoni, Italian painter (died 1657)
 * Carlo Cornara, Italian painter born in Milan (died 1673)
 * Francesco Cozza, Italian painter (died 1682)
 * Pedro de Camprobín, Spanish painter of animals, fruit, and flowers (died 1674)
 * Felice Ficherelli, Italian painter active in Tuscany (died 1660)
 * Girolamo Forabosco, Italian painter (died 1679)
 * Pietro Liberi, Italian painter nicknamed il Libertino (died 1687)
 * Francesco Maffei, Italian painter characterized by provincial stylistic quirks (died 1660)
 * Pierre Patel ("le bon Patel"), French Baroque era painter (died 1676)
 * Cheng Sui, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (died 1691)
 * probable
 * Adriaen Brouwer, Flemish genre painter (died 1638)
 * Pedro de Campolargo, Flemish-born Spanish painter and engraver (died 1675)
 * Dirk van Delen, Dutch Baroque Era painter (died 1671)
 * Luigi Primo, Flemish painter of portraits and altarpieces (died 1667)
 * Bartolommeo Scaligero, Italian painter (date of death unknown)
 * 1605-1610: Abraham Willemsens, Flemish painter of history and genre paintings (died 1672)

Deaths

 * February 11 - Stradanus, Flanders-born mannerist painter (born 1523)
 * March 17 - Pieter Bast, Dutch cartographer, engraver and draftsman (born 1550)
 * date unknown
 * Cristofano dell'Altissimo, Italian painter primarily working in Florence (born 1525)
 * Biagio Betti, Italian painter (born 1535)
 * Giovanni Contarini, Venetian painter (born 1549)
 * Giacomo Lauro, Italian painter (born 1550)
 * Gregorio Pagani, Italian painter active mainly in Florence (born 1558)
 * Felice Riccio, Italian painter (born 1542)
 * Giacomo Rocca, Italian painter (born 1592)
 * probable - Leonard Fryer, sergeant-painter to Queen Elizabeth I of England (date of birth unknown)