1609 in art
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Events from the year 1609 in art.
Events
- January 9 â Letters patent issued relating to accommodation and workshops for artists in the Louvre Palace mezzanine in Paris.[1]
- Hans Krumpper becomes chief sculptor to the Bavarian court under Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria.
- Mesrop of Khizan paints a Gospel which ends up in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Paintings
- Caravaggio
- Adam Elsheimer â The Flight into Egypt
- El Greco â Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple (San Ginés, Madrid)
- Peter Paul Rubens â some dates approximate
Births
- January 20 â Carlo Ceresa, Italian painter of portraitures, altarpieces and religious works (died 1679)
- March 1 (baptised) â Ambrosius Bosschaert the Younger, Dutch painter (died 1645)
- March 16 â Agostino Mitelli, Italian painter of quadratura (died 1660)
- March 23 (baptised) â Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian painter (died 1664)
- May 6 (baptised) â Antonie Waterloo, Dutch painter, publisher and draughtsman
- July 28 â Judith Leyster, Dutch painter of Haarlem (died 1660)
- August 25 â Giovanni Battista Salvi or Sassoferrato, Italian painter (died 1685)
- August 30 â Artus Quellinus the Elder, Flemish sculptor (died 1668)
- December 11 â Alexander Cooper, English Baroque miniature painter (died 1660)
- date unknown
- Jacob Adriaensz Backer, Dutch painter (died 1651)
- Giovanni Angelo Canini, Italian painter and engraver (died 1666)
- Giovanni Domenico Cerrini, Italian painter from the Bolognese School (died 1681)
- Samuel Cooper, English miniature painter (died 1672)
- Bernardino Gagliardi, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1660)
- Salomon Koninck, Dutch painter of genre scenes and portraits and engraver (died 1656)
- Carlo Francesco Nuvolone, Italian painter working in Lombardy (died 1661 or 1662)
- Tobias Pock, Austrian painter (died 1683)
- Herman Saftleven, Dutch painter of the Baroque period (died 1685)
- Giulio Cesare Venenti, Italian painter of landscapes and engraver (died 1697)
- probable
- François Collignon, French engraver, print-seller and publisher (died 1687)
- Domenico Gargiulo, Italian painter of landscapes (died 1675)
Deaths
- July 15 â Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (born 1560)
- July 20 â Federico Zuccari, Italian Mannerist painter and architect (born 1542/1543)
- October â Joseph Heintz the Elder, Swiss painter, draftsman and architect (born 1564)
- date unknown
- Giovanni Battista Armenini, Italian art historian and critic (born 1530)
- Aegidius Sadeler I, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family (born 1555)
- Giusto Utens, Flemish painter of a series of Medicean villas (born unknown)
- Tiburzio Vergelli, Italian sculptor and founder (born 1551)