1597 in art
# 1597 in art

Events from the year 1597 in art.

## Works

* Caravaggio, Penitent Magdalene
* Caravaggio, Rest on the Flight into Egypt
* Caravaggio, Medusa
* Caravaggio, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto
* Dong Qichang, Wanluan Thatched Hall
* Federico Barocci - Nativity (Museo del Prado)
* Caravaggio
   * Penitent Magdalene
   * Rest on the Flight into Egypt
   * Medusa (second version)
   * Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto (Villa Ludovisi, Rome)
* Dong Qichang - Wanluan Thatched Hall
* Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, in Garter robes (approximate date)
* El Greco - The Saint Joseph and the Christ Child (including a view of Toledo, Spain)
* Christ Pantocrator together with the twelve apostles, above the entrance gate of the Holy Virgin main church in the Rohzen Monastery, Bulgaria

## Births

* February 2 - Jacob van Campen, Dutch artist and architect of the Golden Age (died 1657)
* March 10 - Ercole Gennari, Italian Renaissance drawer and painter (died 1658)
* June 9 - Pieter Jansz Saenredam, Dutch painter of structures, architectural portraitist (died 1665)
* July 2 - Theodoor Rombouts, Flemish painter (died 1637)
* September 28 - Justus Sustermans, Flemish painter in the Baroque style (died 1681)
* date unknown
   * Claude Audran the Elder, French engraver (died 1677)
   * Orfeo Boselli, Italian sculptor working in Rome (died 1667)
   * Salomon de Bray (or Braij), Dutch painter (died 1664)
   * Pedro de Obregón, Spanish painter and printmaker (died 1659)
   * Henricus Hondius II, Dutch engraver, cartographer and publisher (died 1651)
   * Juan Ribalta, Spanish painter (died 1628)
   * Xiang Shengmo, Chinese painter in the Qing Dynasty (died 1658)
* probable
   * Jan van Bijlert, Dutch painter, co-founder of the Bentvueghels (died 1671)
   * Pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter (died 1660)
   * Giacomo di Castro, Italian painter (died 1687)
   * Ludovico Lana, Italian painter, mainly active in Modena (died 1646)
   * Johann Liss, German-born painter (died c. 1631)

## Deaths

* February 2 - Lucas van Valckenborch, Flemish landscape painter (b. c.1535)
* September 28 - Hendrick van den Broeck, Flemish painter active mainly in Rome (born 1519)
* date unknown
   * Giovanni Battista de'Cavalieri, Italian engraver (born 1526)
   * Prospero Fontana, Italian painter of the late Renaissance (born 1512)
   * Francesco Morandini, Italian painter active in Florence (born 1544)
   * Willem Thibaut, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1524)
