1604 in art
# 1604 in art

Events from the year 1604 in art.

## Events

* Robert Peake the Elder is appointed picture maker to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales.

## Publications

* Karel van Mander - Schilder-boeck

## Paintings

* Caravaggio, John the Baptist (Kansas City)
* Caravaggio, John the Baptist (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica)
* Caravaggio, The Crowning with Thorns
* Annibale Carracci (approximate date)
   * Landscape with the Flight into Egypt (Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome)
   * The Martyrdom of St. Stephen (The Louvre, Paris)
   * Monsignor Agucchi (York Art Gallery, England)
   * Self-portrait (Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg)
* Caravaggio
   * John the Baptist (Kansas City)
   * John the Baptist (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome)
   * The Crowning with Thorns (Prato)

## Births

* February 6 - Jean Varin, French sculptor and engraver (died 1672)
* July 8 - Christiaen van Couwenbergh, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1667)
* September 21 - Angelo Michele Colonna, Italian painter of frescoes (died 1687)
* date unknown
   * François Anguier, French sculptor (died 1669)
   * Mario Balassi, Italian painter (died 1667)
   * Giovanni Giacomo Barbelli, Italian painter, active in Brescia (died 1656)
   * Charles Beaubrun, French portrait painter (died 1692)
   * Bartolommeo Bianco, Italian architect, engineer, and painter (died 1656)
   * Luigi Baccio del Bianco, Italian architect, engineer, scenic designer and painter (died 1657)
   * Pierre Daret, French portrait painter and engraver (died 1678)
   * Chöying Dorje, 10th Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism and a painter and sculptor (died 1674)
   * Gijsbert d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter of barnyard fowl (died 1653), father of Melchior d'Hondecoeter.
   * Johann Anton Eismann, Austrian painter (died 1698)
   * Giovanni Battista Michelini, Italian painter of religious and mythological subjects (died 1655)
   * Jan Baptist van Heil, Flemish painter (died 1688)
   * Cheng Zhengkui, Chinese landscape painter and poet (died 1670)
* probable
   * Jan Boeckhorst, German-born Flemish Baroque painter (died 1668)
   * Viviano Codazzi, Italian architectural painter (died 1670)

## Deaths

* March 1 - Leonhard Baumhauer [de], German sculptor (born 1535)
* date unknown
   * Pier Angelo Basili, Italian painter born in Gubbio (born 1550)
   * Ottavio Semini, Italian painter born and trained in Genoa (born 1530)
* probable - William Rogers, English engraver (born 1545)
