1594 in art
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Paintings
- TintorettoTintorettoTintoretto , real name Jacopo Comin, was a Venetian painter and a notable exponent of the Renaissance school. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso...
– The Last Supper - CaravaggioCaravaggioMichelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque...
- The CardsharpsCardsharps (Caravaggio)The Cardsharps is a painting by the Italian Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.-History:The work represents an important milestone for Caravaggio...
- The Fortune Teller (Caravaggio)The Fortune Teller (Caravaggio)The Fortune Teller is a painting by Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It exists in two versions, both by Caravaggio, the first from 1594 , the second from 1595...
- The Cardsharps
Births
- June 15 - Nicolas PoussinNicolas PoussinNicolas Poussin was a French painter in the classical style. His work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color. His work serves as an alternative to the dominant Baroque style of the 17th century...
, FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
painter in the classicalClassicismClassicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for classical antiquity, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate. The art of classicism typically seeks to be formal and restrained: of the Discobolus Sir Kenneth Clark observed, "if we object to his restraint...
style (d. 16651665 in art-Events:* April – Gian Lorenzo Bernini arrives in Paris, where he remains until November, fêted by the population.* Claude Perrault begins work on the eastern wing of the Louvre.-Works:...
) - December - Jacob Gerritsz CuypJacob Gerritsz CuypJacob Gerritszoon Cuyp was a portrait and landscape painter. He was born and died in Dordrecht, and was the half-brother of Benjamin Gerritsz Cuyp and the father of the much more famous Aelbert Cuyp....
, DutchNetherlandsThe Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
portrait and landscape painter (d. 16521652 in art-Paintings:* Carel Fabritius - A View of Delft; the painting showing use of exaggerated perspective.-Births:*February 13 - Anton Domenico Gabbiani, Italian painter born in Florence...
) - December 14 - Willem Claeszoon HedaWillem Claeszoon HedaWillem Claeszoon Heda was one of the earliest Dutch Golden Age artists devoted exclusively to the painting of still lifes.-Biography:Heda was born in Haarlem,...
, Dutch artist devoted exclusively to the painting of still lifeStill lifeA still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural or man-made...
(d. 16801680 in art-Events:*Following the death of Sir Peter Lely, Godfrey Kneller is appointed Principal Painter to the Crown by King Charles II of England.-Births:*January 3 - Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German painter and stucco plasterer *date unknown...
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- Giovanni Battista BarcaGiovanni Battista BarcaGiovanni Battista Barca was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Mantua, but became a citizen of Verona. He appears to have been a pupil of Domenico Fetti.-References:...
, ItalianItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
painter (d. 16501650 in art- Paintings :*Claude Lorrain – Coast Scene with the landing of Aeneas and View of La Crescenza*Gerard Dou – The Dutch Housewife*Aniello Falcone – The Anchorite-Births:...
) - Carlo RidolfiCarlo RidolfiCarlo Ridolfi was an Italian art biographer and painter of the Baroque period.-Painter:He was born in Lonigo near Vicenza, and died in Venice. He was a pupil of the painter Antonio Vassilacchi . He painted a Visitation for the Ognissanti and an Adoration of the Magi for San Giovanni Elemosinario...
, Italian art biographer and painter (d. 16581658 in art-Paintings:*Adriaen van der Spelt and Frans van Mieris paint "Flower Piece with Curtain". It is now kept at The Art Institute of Chicago.*Rembrandt van Rijn – Self-portrait*Guido Cagnacci – Death of Cleopatra-Births:...
) - Cornelius van PoelenburghCornelius van PoelenburghCornelis van Poelenburgh, was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.-Biography:Though his birthplace is unknown, a signed document survives in Utrecht where he is listed as six years old and the son of Simon van Poelenburch, a Catholic canon in Utrecht. He initially trained with Abraham Bloemaert,...
, Dutch painter (d. 16671667 in art-Events:* February – the first theatre in Sweden, opens in Bollhuset and Lejonkulan in Stockholm.-Paintings:* Rembrandt van Rijn – The Jewish Bride-Births:*February 4 - Alessandro Magnasco, Italian Rococo painter of genre or landscape scenes...
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- Giovanni Battista Barca
Deaths
- May 31 – TintorettoTintorettoTintoretto , real name Jacopo Comin, was a Venetian painter and a notable exponent of the Renaissance school. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso...
(real name Jacopo Comin) Italian painter of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance (born 15181518 in art-Events:* Titian begins painting The Worship of Venus during 1518-1519.-Births:* September 29 – Tintoretto – Italian painter of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance * Antonio Badile – Italian painter from Verona * Mayken Verhulst – Flemish miniature,...
) - Cristóvão LopesCristóvão LopesCristóvão Lopes was a Portuguese painter.Cristóvão Lopes was the son and disciple of royal painter Gregório Lopes, who died in 1550. Cristóvão succeeded his father as the royal painter of King John III in 1551...
– PortuguesePortugalPortugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
portrait and altarpieceAltarpieceAn altarpiece is a picture or relief representing a religious subject and suspended in a frame behind the altar of a church. The altarpiece is often made up of two or more separate panels created using a technique known as panel painting. It is then called a diptych, triptych or polyptych for two,...
painter (b. 15161516 in art-Events:* Leonardo da Vinci moved to France and entered the service of King Francis I of France, being given the use of the manor house Clos Lucé connected via tunnel to the king's residence at the royal Château d'Amboise.-Paintings:...
) - Cristobal López – SpanishSpainSpain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
painter of portraits and devotional pictures (b. unknown)