1594 in art

Events from the year 1594 in art.

Events

• Hendrick de Clerck becomes court painter to Archduke Ernest of Austria.

Paintings

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  Anon., Gabrielle d'Estrées
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  Caravaggio, The Cardsharps
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  Caravaggio, The Fortune Teller
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  Gheeraerts, Captain Thomas Lee
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  Tintoretto, The Last Supper

• Caravaggio
  • The Cardsharps
  • The Fortune Teller
• Ludovico Carracci – Transfiguration
• Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger – Captain Thomas Lee
• Tommaso Laureti – Frescos in Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome (1587–94)
• Tintoretto – The Last Supper (fresco in San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, 1592–94)
• Second School of Fontainebleau – Gabrielle d'Estrées and one of her sisters (Louvre, Paris)

Sculpture

• Black Christ of Esquipulas

Births

• March 25 - Maria Tesselschade Visscher, Dutch poet and engraver (died 1649)
• June 15 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter in the classical style (died 1665)
• July 10 - Bartolomeo Gennari, Italian Renaissance painter (died 1661)
• December - Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, Dutch portrait and landscape painter (died 1652)
• December 14 - Willem Claeszoon Heda, Dutch artist devoted exclusively to the painting of still life (died 1680)
• date unknown
  • Charles Audran, French engraver (died 1674)
  • Giovanni Battista Barca, Italian painter (died 1650)
  • Peter Oliver, English miniaturist (died 1648)
  • Clara Peeters, Flemish still life painter (died c.1657)
  • Carlo Ridolfi, Italian art biographer and painter (died 1658)
  • Cornelis van Poelenburgh, Dutch painter (died 1667)

Deaths

• May 31 – Tintoretto (real name Jacopo Comin) Italian painter of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance (born 1518)
• date unknown
  • Cristóvão Lopes, Portuguese portrait and altarpiece painter (born 1516)
  • Francisco Venegas, Spanish painter active in Portugal (born 1525)