1590 in art

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Events from the year 1590 in art.

Events

• Gian Paolo Lomazzo produces his critical treatise Idea del tempio della pittura ("The ideal temple of painting").

Works

• Federico Barocci - Christ and Mary Magdalen (Noli me tangere)
• Annibale Carracci
  • Assumption of the Virgin (Museo del Prado, Madrid)
  • The Beaneater (latest likely date)
• Antonio Circignani - Frescoes of the finding of the True Cross (Basilica of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, Rome)
• Kapellekerk, Brussels; now in Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
  there, inventory 53)
• Lavinia Fontana - Portrait of Gerolamo Mercuriale (approximate date)
• School of Fontainebleau - Gabrielle d'Estrees with a Sister
• Palma il Giovane - Francesco St Jerome, rare oil painting on copper
• Hasegawa Tōhaku - Shōrin-zu byōbu "Pine Trees" inkwash
• Cornelis van Haarlem – The Fall of the Titans (1588–1590)
• Crispin van den Broeck
  - Two Young Men

Births

• March 25 (bapt.) - Andries van Eertvelt, Flemish Baroque painter, primarily sea scenes (died 1652)
• December 3 - Daniel Seghers, Jesuit brother and Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in flower still lifes (died 1661)
• date unknown
  • Bartholomeus van Bassen, Dutch painter (died 1652)
  • Jacopo Barbello, Italian painter (died 1656)
  • Didier Barra, French Renaissance painter (died 1656)
  • Christoffel van den Berghe, Dutch painter of the Baroque period (died 1645)
  • Gregorio Bausá, Spanish painter (died 1656)
  • Juan Bautista de Espinosa, Spanish still life painter (died 1641)
  • Luciano Borzone, Italian painter with an antique style (died 1645)
  • Giovanni Bernardo Carlone, Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque periods (died 1630)
  • Bartolomeo Cavarozzi, Italian caravaggisti painter of the Baroque period active in Spain (died 1625)
  • Giovanni Battista Coriolano, Italian engraver (died 1649)
  • Felipe Diricksen, Spanish Baroque painter primarily of portraits and religious paintings (died 1679)
  • Giovanni Battista Discepoli, crippled Italian painter (died 1660)
  • Caterina Ginnasi, Italian painter of altarpieces for the church of Santa Lucia alle Botteghe Oscure (died 1660)
  • Michel Lasne, French engraver, draughtsman and collector (died 1667)
  • Floris van Schooten, Dutch painter (died 1655)
  • Raffaello Vanni, Italian painter for churches (died 1657)
  • Cornelis Verbeeck, Dutch painter (died 1637)
• probable
  • Angelica Veronica Airola, Italian painter (died 1670)
  • Camillo Berlinghieri, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1635)
  • Giovanni Campino, Italian painter from Camerino (died 1650
    )
  • Abraham de Vries, Dutch painter (died 1655)
  • Paolo Domenico Finoglia, Italian painter of the early-Baroque period (died 1645)
  • Esteban March, Spanish painter (died 1660)
  • Daniël Mijtens, Dutch portrait painter (died 1647/1648)
  • Mario Righetti, Italian painter active in his native Bologna (d. unknown)

Deaths

• February 3 - Germain Pilon, French sculptors of the French Renaissance (born 1537)
• April 22 - Sigmund Feyerabend, German bookseller and wood-engraver (born 1528)
• medallist (born 1509
  )
• Azuchi-Momoyama period, patriarchs of the Kanō school of Japanese painting (born 1543
  )
• October 29 - Dirck Coornhert, Dutch writer, engraver, philosopher, translator, politician and theologian (born 1522)
• November 8 - Joost Janszoon Bilhamer, Dutch sculptor, engraver, and cartographer (born 1521)
• date unknown
  • Cesare Baglioni, Italian painter specializing in quadratura (born 1525)
  • Miguel Barroso, Spanish painter (born 1538)^[1]
  • Wouter Crabeth I, Dutch glass painter (born 1510)
  • Bernaert de Rijckere, Flemish painter (born 1535)
  • Jacob Grimmer, Flemish landscape painter (born 1526)
  • Girolamo Lombardo, Italian sculptor (born 1506)
  • Domenico Poggini, Italian sculptor and engraver (born 1520)
  • Marietta Robusti, Venetian painter of the Renaissance period (born 1560)
• probable -
  printmaker and painter associated with the English court of the mid-16th Century (born 1520
  )