1609 in art
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Events
- Hans KrumpperHans KrumpperHans Krumpper was a German sculptor, plasterer, architect and intendant of the arts who served the Bavarian dukes William V...
becomes chief sculptor to the Bavarian court under Maximilian I, Elector of BavariaMaximilian I, Elector of BavariaMaximilian I, Duke/Elector of Bavaria , called "the Great", was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire. His reign was marked by the Thirty Years' War ....
Paintings
- 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...
painted The Raising of Lazarus - 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...
painted Adoration of the ShepherdsAdoration of the Shepherds (Caravaggio)The Adoration of the Shepherds is a 1609 painting by the Italian artist Caravaggio.-External links:*http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/c/caravagg/11/67sheph.html... - 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...
painted Nativity with St. Francis and St. LawrenceNativity with St. Francis and St. LawrenceThe Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is a painting from 1609 by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio .It was stolen on October 16, 1969 from the Oratory of San Lorenzo in Palermo, Sicily.... - 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...
painted Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Madrid)Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Madrid) (Caravaggio)Salome with the Head of John the Baptist , c. 1609, is a painting by the Italian master Caravaggio in the Palacio Real, Madrid.The early Caravaggio biographer Giovanni Bellori, writing in 1672, records the artist sending a Salome with the Head of John the Baptist from Naples to the Grand Master of... - Peter Paul Rubens painted Honeysuckle BowerHoneysuckle BowerThe Honeysuckle Bower is a self-portrait of the Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens and his first wife Isabella Brant. They wed on October 3, 1609, in St. Michael's Abbey in Antwerp, shortly after he had returned to the city after eight years in Italy.The painting is a full-length double...
Births
- July 28 – Judith LeysterJudith LeysterJudith Jans Leyster was a Dutch Golden Age painter. She was one of three significant women artists in Dutch Golden Age painting; the other two, Rachel Ruysch and Maria van Oosterwijk, were specialized painters of flower still-lifes, while Leyster painted genre works, a few portraits, and a...
, Dutch painter of Haarlem (d. 16601660 in art-Births:* Antonio Amorosi – Italian painter of the late-Baroque, active in Ascoli Piceno and Rome * Jakub Bogdan – Slovak still-life painter * Felice Cignani – Italian painter from Bologna , son of Carlo Cignani...
) - August 25 – Giovanni Battista Salvi or Sassoferrato, Italian painter (d. 16851685 in art-Paintings:* Simon Ushakov, Painted The Last Supper -Births:*March 17 - Jean-Marc Nattier, French painter *date unknown**Charles Cressent, French furniture-maker, sculptor and fondeur-ciseleur of the régence style...
) - Jacob Adriaensz BackerJacob Adriaensz BackerJacob Adriaensz Backer was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He produced about 140 paintings in twenty years. In his style he was influenced by Wybrand de Geest, Rubens and Abraham Bloemaert. Also his drawings are highly interesting and skillful...
, Dutch painter (d. 16511651 in art-Events:* Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or "Fountain of the Four Rivers" completed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini-Paintings:* Diego Velázquez – Rokeby Venus-Births:*August 13 - Balthasar Permoser, Austrian sculptor *date unknown...
) - Ambrosius Bosschaert the Younger – Dutch painter (d. 16451645 in art-Paintings:* approx. date - William Dobson - The Painter with Sir Charles Cottrell and another.* Claude Lorrain - Landscape with Apollo and Mercury .-Births:...
) - Giovanni Benedetto CastiglioneGiovanni Benedetto CastiglioneGiovanni Benedetto Castiglione was an Italian Baroque artist, painter, printmaker and draftsman, of the Genoese school. He is best known now for his elaborate engravings, and as the inventor of the printmaking technique of monotyping. He was known as Il Grechetto in Italy and in France as Le...
– Italian painter (d. 16641664 in art-Paintings:* Claude Lorrain - Landscape with Psyche outside the Palace of Cupid -Births:* Torii Kiyonobu I – Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style, especially on Kabuki signboards...
) - Carlo CeresaCarlo CeresaCarlo Ceresa was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly around Bergamo.-Biography:...
– 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 of portraitures, altarpieces and religious works (d. 16791679 in art-Works:*François de Troy - Portrait of Nils Bielke*Memorial painting of Isaac Bargrave in Canterbury Cathedral, attributed to Cornelius Jansen-Births:*January 27 – Jean-François de Troy, French painter *April 24 - Francesco Mancini, painter...
) - Giovanni Domenico CerriniGiovanni Domenico CerriniGiovanni Domenico Cerrini , also called Gian Domenico Cerrini or il Cavalier Perugino, was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome and influenced in large part by painter of the Bolognese School.-Biography:...
– 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 from the Bolognese SchoolBolognese School (painting)The Bolognese School or the School of Bologna of painting flourished in Bologna, the capital of Emilia Romagna, between the 16th and 17th centuries in Italy, and rivalled Florence and Rome as the center of painting. Its most important representatives include the Carracci family, including Ludovico...
(d. 16811681 in art-Births: *April 18 – Girolamo Donnini, Italian painter of the Baroque period *December 14 – Giuseppe Valentini, Italian violinist, painter, poet, and composer *date unknown**Francesco Conti, Italian Venetian painter...
) - Samuel CooperSamuel CooperSamuel Cooper was an English miniature painter, and younger brother of Alexander Cooper.He is believed to have been born in London, and was a nephew of John Hoskins, the miniature painter, by whom he was educated. He lived in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, and frequented the Covent Garden...
– English miniature painter (d. 16721672 in art-Paintings: *Kanō Tanyū – 春景図 -Births:*October 18 – Giuseppe Antonio Caccioli, Italian painter *date unknown**Alberto Carlieri – Italian painter of the late-Baroque period...
) - Bernardino GagliardiBernardino GagliardiBernardino Gagliardi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome. Born in città di Castello. He was a pupil initially of Rinaldo Rinaldi in his native city, then of the painter Avanzino Nucci. He was titled a cavalieri by the Pope.In Rome, he painted the altarpiece San...
– 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 of the BaroqueBaroqueThe Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
period (d. 16601660 in art-Births:* Antonio Amorosi – Italian painter of the late-Baroque, active in Ascoli Piceno and Rome * Jakub Bogdan – Slovak still-life painter * Felice Cignani – Italian painter from Bologna , son of Carlo Cignani...
) - Salomon KoninckSalomon KoninckSalomon Koninck was a Dutch painter of genre scenes and portraits, and an engraver.Koninck was born in Amsterdam, the son of a goldsmith, originally from Antwerp, and was a nephew of Philips de Koninck. Salomon became a pupil of Pieter Lastman, David Colijns, François Venants and Claes...
– 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...
painter of genre scenesGenre paintingGenre works, also called genre scenes or genre views, are pictorial representations in any of various media that represent scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes. Such representations may be realistic, imagined, or...
, portraits and an engraver (d. 16561656 in art-Works:* The Procuress – Johannes Vermeer * Las Meninas – Diego Velázquez -Births:*April 9 - Francesco Trevisani, Italian painter of frescoes...
) - Agostino MitelliAgostino MitelliAgostino Mitelli was an Italian painter of the Baroque period and best known as a fresco painter of quadratura or illusionistic perspectival architectural frameworks....
– 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 of quadratura (d. 16601660 in art-Births:* Antonio Amorosi – Italian painter of the late-Baroque, active in Ascoli Piceno and Rome * Jakub Bogdan – Slovak still-life painter * Felice Cignani – Italian painter from Bologna , son of Carlo Cignani...
) - Carlo Francesco NuvoloneCarlo Francesco NuvoloneCarlo Francesco Nuvolone was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Lombardy.He was born in Milan to a Cremonese father and mannerist painter, Panfilo Nuvolone. After working with his father, he studied under Giovanni Battista Crespi in the Accademia Ambrosiana in Milan...
– painter (d. 17021702 in art-Births:*July 31 – Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter *August 15 – Francesco Zuccarelli, painter, elected to the Venetian Academy in 1763 *December 22 - Jean-Etienne Liotard, Swiss-French painter *date unknown...
) - Artus QuellinusArtus QuellinusArtus Quellinus also known as Artus Quellijn, Artus I Quellinus or Artus Quellinus the Elder , was a Flemish sculptor.-Life:...
– Flemish sculptor (d. 16681668 in art-Events:*The Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford is completed, to a design by Sir Christopher Wren.-Works:*Charles Le Brun – La Colère*Johannes Vermeer – The Astronomer-Births:*date unknown**Francesco Maria Schiaffino, Italian sculptor...
) - Herman SaftlevenHerman SaftlevenHerman Saftleven the Younger , was a Dutch painter of the Baroque period.-Biography:Born in Rotterdam, Saftleven lived most of his life in Utrecht. His brothers, Cornelis Saftleven and Abraham Saftleven were both painters...
– 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...
painter of the BaroqueBaroqueThe Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
period (d. 16851685 in art-Paintings:* Simon Ushakov, Painted The Last Supper -Births:*March 17 - Jean-Marc Nattier, French painter *date unknown**Charles Cressent, French furniture-maker, sculptor and fondeur-ciseleur of the régence style...
) - Giulio Cesare VenentiGiulio Cesare VenentiGiulio Cesare Venenti was an Italian engraver of the Baroque period.He was born in Bologna, where he first apprenticed under Francesco Brizio and Reni. He is best known for engravings of painters of Northern Italy including Parmigianino, Domenico Maria Canuti, and Annibale Carracci, including his...
– 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 of landscapes and engraver (d. 16971697 in art-Births:* October 28 – Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto, Venetian artist famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice * Bernard Accama or Bernardus, Dutch historical and portrait painter, born in Friesland...
) - Antoni Waterloo – painter, publisher and draughtsman
- (b. 1609/1610): Domenico GargiuloDomenico GargiuloDomenico Gargiulo was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Naples and known for his landscapes....
– 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 of landscapes (d. 16751675 in art-Births:*April 29 – Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, Italian decorative and mural painter from Venice *June 23 – Louis de Silvestre, French painter *October 7 = Rosalba Carriera, Venetian Rococo painter especially of portrait miniatures...
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Deaths
- November 3 – Annibale CarracciAnnibale CarracciAnnibale Carracci was an Italian Baroque painter.-Early career:Annibale Carracci was born in Bologna, and in all likelihood first apprenticed within his family...
, Italian painter (b. 15601560 in art-Births:* November 3 – Annibale Carracci, Italian painter * Ludovico Buti – Italian painter active mostly in Florence * Baldassare d'Anna – Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period * Bartolomeo Carducci – Italian painter...
) - Giovanni Antonio DosioGiovanni Antonio DosioGiovanni Antonio Dosio was an Italian architect and sculptor.He was born in San Gimignano. A student of Ammanati, with whom he realized the Villa dell'Ambrogiana, Dosio worked primarily in Rome and Florence , with some commissions that took him to Naples.During his early years in Rome, where he...
– Italian architect and sculptor (b. 15331533 in art-Works:*Hans Holbein - The Ambassadors*Hans Holbein - Thomas Cromwell -Births:* Giovanni Battista da Ponte – Italian painter active in Venice and his native Bassano...
) - Joseph Heintz the Elder – Swiss painter, draftsman and architect (b. 15641564 in art-Births:* Pieter Brueghel the Younger – Flemish Renaissance painter * Vincenzo Giustiniani – art collector, patron of Caravaggio * Joseph Heintz the Elder – Swiss painter, draftsman and architect...
) - Giusto UtensGiusto UtensGiusto Utens or Justus Utens was a Flemish painter who is remembered for the series of Medicean villas in lunette form that he painted for the third grand duke of Tuscany, Ferdinando I, in 1599–1602....
– Flemish painter of a series of Medicean villas (b. unknown) - Federico ZuccariFederico ZuccariFederico Zuccari, also known as Federigo Zuccaro , was an Italian Mannerist painter and architect, active both in Italy and abroad.-Biography:Zuccari was born at Sant'Angelo in Vado, near Urbino ....
– 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...
ManneristMannerismMannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but Northern Mannerism continued into the early 17th century throughout much of Europe...
painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
and architectArchitectAn architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
(b. 1542/15431542 in art-Painting:* Wen Zhengming – Wintry trees after Li Cheng* Titian – Portrait of Ranuccio Farnese* Domenico Beccafumi – Madonna and Child with Infant John the Baptist-Births:...
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