1616 in art

Events from the year 1616 in art.

Events

 * Jacob Jordaens marries the daughter of his teacher, Adam van Noort.
 * Peter Paul Rubens begins work on classical tapestries for Genoese merchant Franco Cattaneo following signing of a contract in Antwerp with cloth dyers Jan Raes and Frans Sweerts.

Paintings

 * Hendrik Goltzius - Lot and his Daughters
 * Guercino - Moonlit Landscape
 * Cornelis van Haarlem – Allegory of Vanity and Repentance
 * Frans Hals - The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company
 * Jacob Jordaens
 * Abduction of Europa (1615-16)
 * Adoration of the Shepherds (his earliest dated extant work)
 * The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt (approximate date)
 * Isaac Oliver - Portrait miniature of John Donne
 * Peter Paul Rubens
 * Erichthonius discovered by the daughters of Cecrops (approximate date)
 * The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt
 * Tiger, Lion and Leopard Hunt
 * Portrait of a Young Girl
 * Romulus and Remus
 * Sigismund of Seeon - Trithemius sui ipsius vindex sive Steganographiae (painted in Ingolstadt)
 * Simon van de Passe - Engraving of Pocahontas (died 1617; later published in John Smith's Generall Historie of Virginia (1624))

Sculptures

 * Gian Lorenzo Bernini
 * Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children
 * Bust of Giovanni Battista Santoni (approximate completion date)
 * Pietro Bernini - Flora
 * Pietro and Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Autumn (approximate date)
 * Giambologna (completed by Pietro Tacca) - Equestrian statue of Philip III of Spain

Births

 * February 2 - Sébastien Bourdon, French painter and engraver (died 1671)
 * May 25 - Carlo Dolci, Italian painter of chiefly sacred subjects (died 1686)
 * June 24 - Ferdinand Bol, Dutch artist, etcher, and draftsman (died 1680)
 * September - Philips Angel, Dutch painter (died 1683)
 * date unknown
 * Bernardo Cavallino, Italian painter of the Baroque period working in Naples (died 1656)
 * Pierfrancesco Cittadini, Italian painter of still life (died 1681)
 * Pietro del Po, Italian painter (died 1692)
 * Isaack Luttichuys, Dutch Golden Age portrait painter (died 1673)
 * Jean Michelin, French Protestant painter (died 1670)
 * Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia, Italian painter and artist biographer of the Baroque period (died 1680)
 * Sokuhi Nyoitsu, Buddhist monk of the Obaku Zen sect, poet and calligrapher (died 1671)
 * Henri Testelin, French court painter (died 1695)
 * (born 1616/1617) Caesar van Everdingen – Dutch portrait painter (died 1678)

Deaths

 * January - Orazio Borgianni, Italian painter and etcher of the Mannerist and early-baroque periods (born 1575)
 * August 8 - Cornelis Ketel, Dutch Mannerist painter (born 1548)
 * date unknown
 * Matteo Perez d'Aleccio, Italian painter of devotional, historical and maritime subjects during the Mannerist period (born c.1547)
 * Jacques Bellange, French artist and printmaker from Lorraine (born 1575)
 * Orazio Farinati, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1559)
 * Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Quechua noble man known for illustrating a chronicle of the native peoples of the Andes (born 1535)
 * Siyâvash, Iranian Georgian miniature illustrator (born 1536)