1601 in art
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Events from the year 1601 in art.
Events
- July – Nicholas Hilliard writes to Robert Cecil, England's Secretary of State, acknowledging an annuity of £40, and asking permission to retire from London to save on household expenses.[1]
Paintings
- Caravaggio
- Annibale Carracci – Assumption of the Virgin (1600-1601, Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome)
- Peter Paul Rubens – The Deposition[4]
Births
- January 19 – Guido Cagnacci, Italian painter of the Bolognese School (died 1663)[5]
- March 19 – Alonso Cano, Spanish painter, architect and sculptor (died 1667)
- September 13 – Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (died 1678)[6]
- November 15 – Cecco Bravo, Florentine painter of the Baroque period (died 1661)
- date unknown
- Hendrick Bloemaert, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1672)
- Pieter de Bloot, Dutch painter (died 1658)
- Martin Droeshout, engraver (died 1650)
- Shi Kefa, Chinese government official and calligrapher (died 1645)
- probable
- Simon de Vlieger, painter (died 1653)
- Paulus Bor, Dutch painter (died 1669)
- Michel Corneille the Elder, French painter, etcher, and engraver (died 1664)
Deaths
- May 10 – Hans van Steenwinckel the Elder, Flemish/Danish sculptor and architect (born 1550)[7]
- July 24 – Joris Hoefnagel, Flemish painter and engraver (born 1542)[8]
- August 10 – Giovanni Alberti, Italian painter (born 1558)[9]
- date unknown
- Giacomo del Duca, Italian sculptor (born 1520)
- Zacharias Dolendo, Dutch engraver (born 1561)
- Teodoro Ghisi, Italian engraver (born 1536)
- Hugues Sambin, French sculptor and woodworker (born 1520)[10]
- Paris Nogari, Italian painter (born 1536)
- probable – Cesare Vecellio, Italian engraver and painter (born 1530)
References
- ^ HMC, Manuscripts of the Marquis of Salisbury at Hatfield House, vol. 11 (1906), p. 306
- ^ a b Hibbard, Howard (1983). Caravaggio. Westview Press. p. 119. ISBN 0-06-430128-1.
- ^ Grovier, Kelly (18 June 2021). "The Supper at Emmaus: A coded symbol hidden in a masterpiece". BBC. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
- ^ "Peter Paul Rubens, The Deposition". Galleria Borghese. Retrieved 20 March 2026.
- ^ Salomon, Xavier F. (2016). The Art of Guido Cagnacci. The Frick Collection. p. 19.
- ^ "Jan Brueghel (II)". RKD. Retrieved 20 March 2026.
- ^ The Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art: Orley-Zygmunt III. Oxford University Press. 2009. p. 299.
- ^ Lee Hendrix; Thea Vignau-Wilberg, eds. (2020). Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta: A Sixteenth-century Calligraphic Manuscript Inscribed by Georg Bocskay and Illuminated by Joris Hoefnagel. J. Paul Getty Museum. p. 23. ISBN 9781606066584.
- ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Alberti, Giovanni". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
- ^ Emmanuelle Brugerolles; David Guillet (1995). The Renaissance in France: Drawings from the Ecole Des Beaux-arts, Paris. Harvard University Art Museums. p. 234. ISBN 9780916724863.