1617 in art

Events from the year 1617 in art.

Events

 * Kanō Tan'yū becomes an official artist of the Tokugawa shogunate.
 * Lucas Vorsterman joins the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens, soon becoming Rubens's primary engraver.

Works

 * Abu al-Hasan - Shah Jahangir
 * Gian Lorenzo Bernini - marble sculptures
 * The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence (probable date)
 * with Pietro Bernini - Boy with a Dragon
 * Frans Hals - Shrovetide Revellers
 * Peter Paul Rubens
 * Adoration of the Magi
 * Mars and Rhea Silvia (approximate date)
 * Nicholas Stone - floor tomb of Sir William Curle in St Etheldreda's church, Old Hatfield, England
 * Diego Velázquez - The Lunch
 * Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom - Dutch Ships Ramming Spanish Galleys off the Flemish Coast in October 1602

Births

 * January 19 – Lucas Faydherbe, Dutch sculptor and architect (died 1697)
 * January 22 – Ludovicus Neefs, Flemish painter (died 1649)
 * February 5 – Jan Thomas van Ieperen, Flemish painter and engraver (died 1673)
 * May – John Michael Wright, English baroque portrait painter (died 1694)
 * August 10 (bapt.) – Ambrosius Brueghel, Flemish painter (died 1675)
 * October 17 – Dionisio Lazzari, Italian sculptor and architect (died 1689)
 * November 19 – Eustache Le Sueur, co-founder of the French Academy of painting (died 1655)
 * November 21 – Tosa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter (died 1691)
 * December – Gerard ter Borch, Dutch subject painter (died 1681)
 * December 7 – Evaristo Baschenis, Italian Baroque painter primarily of still lifes (died 1677)
 * December 31 – Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter best known for his religious works (died 1682)
 * date unknown
 * Emanuel de Witte, Dutch perspective painter (died 1692)
 * Pellegrino Piola, Italian painter (died 1640)
 * Paolo Porpora, Italian painter of floral still lifes (died 1670)
 * Carlo Sacchi, Italian painter and engraver (died 1706)

Deaths

 * January 1 – Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch printmaker, draughtsman and painter (born 1588)
 * September – Louis Finson - Flemish painter of the Dutch Golden Age (born 1580)
 * October 2 – Isaac Oliver, French-born English portrait miniature painter (born 1565)
 * date unknown
 * Fabrizio Castello, Italian painter of Genoese origin settled in Spain (born 1562)
 * Hans Ruprecht Hoffmann, German sculptor (born c.1545)
 * Giovanni Battista Vernici, Italian painter (born unknown)
 * Andrea Vicentino, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1542)