1617 in art
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Events from the year 1617 in art.
Events
- KanŠTan'yū becomes an official artist of the Tokugawa shogunate.
- Lucas Vorsterman joins the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens, soon becoming Rubens's primary engraver.
Works
- Abu al-Hasan - Shah Jahangir
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini - marble sculptures
- The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence (probable date)
- with Pietro Bernini - Boy with a Dragon
- Frans Hals - Shrovetide Revellers
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Adoration of the Magi
- Mars and Rhea Silvia (approximate date)
- Nicholas Stone - floor tomb of Sir William Curle in St Etheldreda's church, Old Hatfield, England[1]
- Diego Velázquez - The Lunch
- Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom - Dutch Ships Ramming Spanish Galleys off the Flemish Coast in October 1602
Births
- January 19 â Lucas Faydherbe, Dutch sculptor and architect (died 1697)
- January 22 â Ludovicus Neefs, Flemish painter (died 1649)
- February 5 â Jan Thomas van Ieperen, Flemish painter and engraver (died 1673)
- May â John Michael Wright, English baroque portrait painter (died 1694)
- August 10 (bapt.) â Ambrosius Brueghel, Flemish painter (died 1675)
- October 17 â Dionisio Lazzari, Italian sculptor and architect (died 1689)
- November 19 â Eustache Le Sueur, co-founder of the French Academy of painting (died 1655)
- November 21 â Tosa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter (died 1691)
- December â Gerard ter Borch, Dutch subject painter (died 1681)
- December 7 â Evaristo Baschenis, Italian Baroque painter primarily of still lifes (died 1677)
- December 31 â Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter best known for his religious works (died 1682)
- date unknown
- Emanuel de Witte, Dutch perspective painter (died 1692)
- Pellegrino Piola, Italian painter (died 1640)
- Paolo Porpora, Italian painter of floral still lifes (died 1670)
- Carlo Sacchi, Italian painter and engraver (died 1706)
Deaths
- January 1 â Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch printmaker, draughtsman and painter (born 1588)
- September â Louis Finson - Flemish painter of the Dutch Golden Age (born 1580)[2]
- October 2 â Isaac Oliver, French-born English portrait miniature painter (born 1565)
- date unknown
- Fabrizio Castello, Italian painter of Genoese origin settled in Spain (born 1562)[3]
- Hans Ruprecht Hoffmann, German sculptor (born c.1545)
- Giovanni Battista Vernici, Italian painter (born unknown)
- Andrea Vicentino, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1542)[4]