1599 in art
# 1599 in art

Events from the year 1599 in art.

## Events

* July 23 - Caravaggio receives his first public commission for paintings.

## Works

* Caravaggio, Basket of Fruit
* Caravaggio, Judith Beheading Holofernes
* Caravaggio, David and Goliath
* Caravaggio, Narcissus
* Paul Bril – Mountain Scene (miniature)
* Caravaggio
   * Basket of Fruit
   * Judith Beheading Holofernes
   * David and Goliath
   * Narcissus
* Pieter Pietersz the Elder – Poor Parents, Rich Children
* Hendrick van Balen the Elder – The Judgement of Paris

## Births

* February 15 - Pope Alexander II, Papal patron of the arts commissioned architectural and sculptural works by Gianlorenzo Bernini (died 1667)
* March 22 – Anthony van Dyck, Flemish Baroque artist who became England's leading court painter (died 1641)
* June – Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (died 1660)
* September 25 – Francesco Borromini (Francesco Castelli), prominent and influential Baroque architect in Rome (died 1667)
* November 30 – Andrea Sacchi, Italian painter of High Baroque Classicism (died 1661)
* December – Pieter van Laer, Dutch painter of genre scenes (died 1642)
* December 11 – Pieter Codde, Dutch painter of genre works (died 1678)
* date unknown
   * Francisco Collantes, Spanish Baroque era painter (died 1656)
   * Willem Cornelisz Duyster, Dutch painter from Amsterdam (died 1635)
   * Jan Miel, Flemish painter (died 1663)
   * Gerrit Reynst, Dutch merchant and art collector (died 1658)
   * Giovanni Battista Vanni, Italian painter of frescoes and engraver (died 1660)
   * Robert Walker – English portrait painter (died 1658)
* probable
   * Bartolommeo Coriolano, Italian engraver (died 1676)
   * Antioine Le Nain, French painter of the Le Nain family of painters (died 1648)

## Deaths

* October 27 - Gillis Coignet, painter (born 1540)
* date unknown
   * Alberto di Giovanni Alberti, Tuscan architect, wood carver and painter (born 1525)
   * Antoine Caron, French master glassmaker, illustrator, Mannerist painter and a master (teacher) at the School of Fontainebleau (born 1521)
   * Valerio Cioli, Italian sculptor (born 1529)
   * Gillis Coignet, Flemish painter (born 1542)
   * Wendel Dietterlin, German painter/architect, wrote treatise on the five orders entitled Architectura (1598) filled with Mannerist ornament (born 1550)
   * Giuseppe Meda, Italian painter, architect and hydraulics engineer (born c.1534)
   * Dominicus Lampsonius, Flemish poet and artist (born 1532)
   * Francesco Potenzano, Italian painter, poet, and promoter
   * Friedrich Sustris, Italian-born Dutch painter working in Bavaria (born c.1540)
   * Mayken Verhulst, Flemish miniaturist and watercolour painter (born 1518)
   * Pierre Woeiriot, French engraver, goldsmith, painter, sculptor and medallist (born 1532)
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