1606 in art

Events from the year 1606 in art.

Events

 * May 29 – Caravaggio kills a young man in a brawl in Rome.

Works

 * Caravaggio
 * Death of the Virgin (1604-1606)
 * Madonna di Loreto (1604-1606)
 * Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy
 * Portrait of Pope Paul V (1605-1606)
 * Saint Francis in Prayer
 * Saint Jerome Writing
 * Supper at Emmaus (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)
 * John de Critz (attrib.) – James VI and I (approximate date)
 * Frans Francken the Younger – The Witches' Sabbath
 * Peter Paul Rubens
 * The Judgement of Paris (approximate date)
 * Portraits of
 * Marchesa Brigida Spinola-Doria
 * Marchesa Maria Serra Pallavicino

Births

 * February 27 – Laurent de La Hire, French painter (died 1656)
 * April – Jan Davidsz de Heem, Dutch painter (died 1683)
 * May 3 – Lorenzo Lippi, Italian painter and poet (died 1664)
 * May 12 – Joachim von Sandrart, German art-historian and painter (died 1688)
 * July 15 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter (died 1669)
 * date unknown
 * Theodoor van Thulden, Dutch artist from 's-Hertogenbosch in North Brabant (died 1669)
 * Charles Errard, French painter, architect and engraver (died 1689)
 * Giacinto Gimignani, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome, during the Baroque period (died 1681)
 * Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (died 1680)
 * Pieter Quast, Dutch painter (died 1647)
 * Pietro Ricchi, Italian painter of the altarpiece for a church in Lucca (died 1675)
 * probable
 * (born 1606/1611): Viviano Codazzi, Italian painter of landscapes or vedute (died 1672)
 * (born 1606/1608): Johannes Bosschaert, member of the Bosschaert family of still life painters (born 1628/1629)
 * Joan Carlile, née Palmer, English professional portrait painter (died 1679)
 * Isaack Gilsemans, Dutch merchant and artist (died 1646)
 * Anthonie Jansz. van der Croos, Dutch painter (died 1661)

Deaths

 * August 6 – Ottaviano Nonni, Italian architect, sculptor, and painter (born 1536)
 * September 2 – Karel van Mander, Flemish painter, poet and biographer (born 1548)
 * date unknown
 * Tiziano Aspetti, Italian sculptor (born c.1557/1559)
 * Andrea Boscoli, Florentine painter (born c.1550/60)
 * Giovanni Maria Butteri, Italian painter primarily of frescoes (born 1540)
 * Alessandro Casolano, Italian painter primarily working in Siena (born 1552)
 * Giovanni Battista Fiammeri, Florentine Jesuit painter (born 1530)
 * Lodovico Leoni, Italian painter mainly active in Rome (born 1531)
 * Jan Vermeyen, Dutch goldsmith of the Renaissance Mannerism (born 1559)
 * probable - Paolo Farinati, Italian painter of the Mannerist style (born 1524)