1693 in art
# 1693 in art

Events from the year 1693 in art.

## Events

* January 11 – A massive earthquake in Sicily leads indirectly to the development of a Sicilian Baroque style of architecture and decoration as palazzi, public buildings, cathedrals and churches require reconstruction.

## Paintings

* Wang Hui – A Thousand Peaks and Myriad Ravines
* Hyacinthe Rigaud – Portrait of Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark
* Jan Wyck – The Battle of the Boyne (approximate date)

## Births

* May 31 – Bartolomeo Nazari, Italian portraitist (died 1758)
* date unknown
   * Placido Campolo, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (died 1743)
   * Georg Rafael Donner, Austrian sculptor (died 1741)
   * Zheng Xie, Chinese painter of orchids, bamboo, and stones; one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou (died 1765)
* probable – Bernardino Ludovisi, Italian sculptor (died 1749)

## Deaths

* April 20 – Claudio Coello, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1642)
* July 31 – Willem Kalf, Dutch painter (born 1619)
* November – Nicolaes Maes, Dutch Baroque painter of genre works and portraits (born 1634)
* November 12 – Maria van Oosterwijck, Dutch Baroque painter, specializing in richly detailed still-lifes (born 1630)
* December 13 – Willem van de Velde the Elder, Dutch painter (born 1611)
* date unknown
   * Johann Franz Ermels, German painter and engraver (born 1641)
   * Dirck Ferreris, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1639)
   * Hendrik Graauw, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1627)
   * Bartolomé Pérez, Spanish painter of flowers and still lifes (born 1634)
   * Giovan Battista Ruoppolo, Neapolitan painter, notable for still-lifes (born 1629)
   * Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, Carniolan nobleman, scientist, writer, draughtsman, and polymath (born 1641)
