1596 in art
# 1596 in art

Events from the year 1596 in art.

## Events

* (unknown)

## Paintings

* Federico Barocci - Annunciation (Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Assisi)
* Caravaggio
   * The Lute Player
   * Medusa (first version)
* Annibale Carracci - The Choice of Hercules

## Births

* January 13 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch landscape painter (died 1656)
* February 2 - Jacob van Campen, Dutch artist and architect of the Golden Age (died 1657)
* April - Juan van der Hamen, Spanish still life painter (died 1631)
* May - Abraham van Diepenbeeck, Dutch painter of the Flemish School (died 1675)
* June 5 - Peter Wtewael, Dutch painter, son of Joachim Wtewael (died 1660)
* October 1 - Cesare Dandini, Italian painter (died 1657)
* October 5 - Pieter van Mierevelt, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1623)
* November 1 – Pietro da Cortona, pseudonym of Pietro Berettini, prolific artist and architect of High Baroque (died 1669)
* December 24 - Leonaert Bramer, Dutch painter (died 1674)
* date unknown
   * Antonio Bisquert, Spanish painter of the Baroque period (died 1646)
   * Obaku Dokuryu, Japanese calligrapher and painter (died 1672)
   * Andrea di Leone, Italian painter of battle scenes (died 1675)
   * Xiao Yuncong, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet in the late Ming Dynasty (died 1673)
* probable
   * Thomas de Keyser, Dutch painter and architect (died 1667)
   * Antonio Catalani, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods (d. unknown)

## Deaths

* July 10 - Alessandro Alberti, Italian painter (born 1551)
* date unknown
   * Hans Donauer, German painter (b. c.1521)
   * George Gower, English portrait painter who became sergeant-painter to Queen Elizabeth I (born 1540)
   * Nicholas Francken of Herenthals, Flemish painter (b. unknown)
   * Dario Varotari the Elder, Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (b. c.1539)
   * Pedro de Villegas Marmolejo, Spanish sculptor and painter (born 1519)
* probable
   * Niccolò Circignani, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period (born 1517/1524)
   * Pellegrino Tibaldi, Italian mannerist architect, sculptor, and mural painter (born 1527)
