1608 in art

Events from the year 1608 in art.

Events

 * August - Caravaggio is arrested and imprisoned for his part in a brawl. He subsequently escapes and flees Malta.
 * December 1 - The senior Knights of Malta, after verifying that Caravaggio has failed to appear before them although summoned four times, vote unanimously to expel their putridum et foetidum ex-brother.
 * Hendrick Avercamp moves from Amsterdam to Kampen.
 * Mesrop of Khizan paints a Gospel.

Paintings

 * Hendrick Avercamp - Winter Landscape with Iceskaters (approximate date)
 * Caravaggio
 * The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
 * Portrait of Fra Antonio Martelli
 * Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt and his Page (1607–08)
 * Sleeping Cupid
 * John the Baptist (St John the Baptist at the Fountain)
 * Annunciation
 * Burial of St. Lucy
 * Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger - Portrait of a boy aged two
 * Frans Pourbus the Younger - Marguerite of Savoy, Duchess of Gonzaga, Duchess of Mantua
 * Carlo Saraceni - Landscape with Salmacis and Hermaphroditus (approximate date)

Births

 * April/May - Pieter Post, Dutch architect, painter and printmaker (died 1669)
 * October 30 - Lazzaro Morelli, sculptor (died 1690)
 * date unknown
 * Salvi Castellucci, Italian painter active in Arezzo (died 1672)
 * Niccolo Laniere, Italian painter and engraver (died 1646)
 * Willem de Poorter, Dutch painter (died 1648)
 * Francisco Salmerón, Spanish painter (died 1632)
 * Giacomo Torelli, Italian set designer and engraver (died 1678)
 * Pieter van Abeele, Dutch medallist and coiner in Amsterdam (died 1684)
 * Abraham Wuchters, Dutch-Danish painter and engraver (died 1682)
 * (born 1608/1612): Giovanni Stefano Danedi, Italian painter of frescoes (died 1690)

Deaths

 * June - Bernardo Buontalenti, Italian stage designer, architect, theatrical designer, military engineer and artist (born 1536)
 * June 5 - Ippolito Andreasi, Italian painter (born 1548)
 * July 26 - Pablo de Céspedes, Spanish painter, poet, and architect (born 1538)
 * August 13 - Giambologna, Flemish sculptor of marble and bronze statuary working in Italy (born 1529)
 * October 11 – Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Italian painter (born c.1549/1551)
 * October 26 - Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Spanish painter (born 1553)
 * November 14 - Bartolomeo Carducci, Italian painter (born 1560)
 * date unknown
 * Felice Damiani, Italian painter of religious themed works and altarpieces (born 1584)
 * Kanō Mitsunobu, Japanese painter of the Kanō school (born unknown)
 * Pieter van der Borcht the Elder, Flemish Renaissance painter and etcher (born 1535 or 1545)
 * Alessandro Vittoria, Italian Mannerist sculptor of the Venetian school (born 1525)