1616 in art
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Overview of the events of 1616 in art
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Events from the year 1616 in art.
Events
[edit ]- Jacob Jordaens marries the daughter of his teacher, Adam van Noort.
- Peter Paul Rubens begins work on classical tapestries for Genoese merchant Franco Cattaneo following signing of a contract in Antwerp with cloth dyers Jan Raes and Frans Sweerts.
Paintings
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- Hendrik Goltzius - Lot and his Daughters
- Guercino - Moonlit Landscape
- Cornelis van Haarlem – Allegory of Vanity and Repentance
- Frans Hals - The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company
- Jacob Jordaens
- Abduction of Europa (1615-16)
- Adoration of the Shepherds (his earliest dated extant work)
- The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt (approximate date)
- Isaac Oliver - Portrait miniature of John Donne
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Sigismund of Seeon - Trithemius sui ipsius vindex sive Steganographiae (painted in Ingolstadt)
- Simon van de Passe - Engraving of Pocahontas (died 1617; later published in John Smith's Generall Historie of Virginia (1624))
Sculptures
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- Gian Lorenzo Bernini
- Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children
- Bust of Giovanni Battista Santoni (approximate completion date)
- Pietro Bernini - Flora
- Pietro and Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Autumn (approximate date)
- Giambologna (completed by Pietro Tacca) - Equestrian statue of Philip III of Spain
Births
[edit ]- February 2 - Sébastien Bourdon, French painter and engraver (died 1671)
- May 25 - Carlo Dolci, Italian painter of chiefly sacred subjects (died 1686)
- June 24 - Ferdinand Bol, Dutch artist, etcher, and draftsman (died 1680)
- September - Philips Angel, Dutch painter (died 1683)
- date unknown
- Bernardo Cavallino, Italian painter of the Baroque period working in Naples (died 1656)
- Pierfrancesco Cittadini, Italian painter of still life (died 1681)
- Pietro del Po, Italian painter (died 1692)
- Isaack Luttichuys, Dutch Golden Age portrait painter (died 1673)
- Jean Michelin, French Protestant painter (died 1670)
- Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia, Italian painter and artist biographer of the Baroque period (died 1680)
- Sokuhi Nyoitsu, Buddhist monk of the Obaku Zen sect, poet and calligrapher (died 1671)
- Henri Testelin, French court painter (died 1695)
- (born 1616/1617) Caesar van Everdingen – Dutch portrait painter (died 1678)
Deaths
[edit ]- January - Orazio Borgianni, Italian painter and etcher of the Mannerist and early-baroque periods (born 1575)
- August 8 - Cornelis Ketel, Dutch Mannerist painter (born 1548)
- date unknown
- Matteo Perez d'Aleccio, Italian painter of devotional, historical and maritime subjects during the Mannerist period (born c.1547)
- Jacques Bellange, French artist and printmaker from Lorraine (born 1575)
- Orazio Farinati, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1559)
- Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Quechua noble man known for illustrating a chronicle of the native peoples of the Andes (born 1535)
- Siyâvash, Iranian Georgian miniature illustrator (born 1536)