1594 in art

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)

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