1606 in art
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Events from the year 1606 in art.
Events
- May 29 – Caravaggio kills a young man in a brawl in Rome. Sentenced to beheading, he flees the city.
Works
Image:Michelangelo_Caravaggio_034.jpg|Caravaggio, Supper at Emmaus
Image:CaravaggioFrancisPrayer.jpg|Caravaggio, Saint Francis in Prayer
Image:Pope Paul V.jpg|Caravaggio, Portrait of Pope Paul V
File:Saint Jerome Writing-Caravaggio (1605-6).jpg|Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing
Image:Michelangelo Caravaggio 069.jpg|Caravaggio, Death of the Virgin
Image:Michelangelo Caravaggio 001.jpg|Caravaggio, Madonna di Loreto
Image:Marchesa Brigida Spinola-Doria.jpg|Rubens, Portrait of Marchesa Brigida Spinola-Doria
- Caravaggio
- Death of the Virgin (1604-1606)
- Madonna di Loreto (1604-1606)
- Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy
- Portrait of Pope Paul V (1605-1606)
- Saint Francis in Prayer
- Saint Jerome Writing
- Supper at Emmaus (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)
- John de Critz (attrib.) – James VI and I (approximate date)
- Frans Francken the Younger – The Witches' Sabbath
- Peter Paul Rubens
- The Judgement of Paris (approximate date)
- Portraits of
- Marchesa Brigida Spinola-Doria
- [https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1257098 Marchesa Maria Serra Pallavicino]
Births
- February 27 – Laurent de La Hire, French painter (died 1656)
- April – Jan Davidsz de Heem, Dutch painter (died 1683)
- May 3 – Lorenzo Lippi, Italian painter and poet (died 1664)
- May 12 – Joachim von Sandrart, German art-historian and painter (died 1688)
- July 15 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter (died 1669){{cite web |title=BBC - History - Historic Figures: Rembrandt (1606-1669) |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/rembrandt.shtml |website=www.bbc.co.uk |access-date=11 May 2025}}
- date unknown
- Theodoor van Thulden, Dutch artist from 's-Hertogenbosch in North Brabant (died 1669)
- Charles Errard, French painter, architect and engraver (died 1689)
- Giacinto Gimignani, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome, during the Baroque period (died 1681)
- Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (died 1680)
- Pieter Quast, Dutch painter (died 1647)
- Pietro Ricchi, Italian painter of the altarpiece for a church in Lucca (died 1675)
- probable
- (born 1606/1611): Viviano Codazzi, Italian painter of landscapes or vedute (died 1672)
- (born 1606/1608): Johannes Bosschaert, member of the Bosschaert family of still life painters (born 1628/1629)
- Joan Carlile, née Palmer, English professional portrait painter (died 1679)
- Isaack Gilsemans, Dutch merchant and artist (died 1646)
- Anthonie Jansz. van der Croos, Dutch painter (died 1661)
Deaths
- August 6 – Ottaviano Nonni, Italian architect, sculptor, and painter (born 1536)
- September 2 – Karel van Mander, Flemish painter, poet and biographer (born 1548)
- date unknown
- Tiziano Aspetti, Italian sculptor (born c.1557/1559)
- Andrea Boscoli, Florentine painter (born c.1550/60)
- Giovanni Maria Butteri, Italian painter primarily of frescoes (born 1540)
- Alessandro Casolano, Italian painter primarily working in Siena (born 1552)
- Giovanni Battista Fiammeri, Florentine Jesuit painter (born 1530)
- Lodovico Leoni, Italian painter mainly active in Rome (born 1531)
- Jan Vermeyen, Dutch goldsmith of the Renaissance Mannerism (born 1559)
- probable - Paolo Farinati, Italian painter of the Mannerist style (born 1524)