1607 in art

Events from the year 1607 in art.

Events

• Work by the German painter Peter Reimers first appears in Kinsarvik, effectively beginning the Stavanger renaissance.

Paintings

• Caravaggio
  • Saint Jerome Writing
  • The Flagellation of Christ
  • The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew
  • The Seven Works of Mercy
  • David with the Head of Goliath (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
  • Madonna of the Rosary
  • The Crowning with Thorns
  • Christ at the Column
  • Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (National Gallery, London)
• Cigoli - The Sacrifice of Isaac (approximate date)
• Ambrosius Francken - triptych of the Crucifixion (formerly at main altar of Church of the Augustinians in Mechelen)
• Peter Paul Rubens - Susanna and the Elders

Births

• May 31 - Johann Wilhelm Baur, German engraver, etcher and miniature painter (died 1640)
• July 12 - Jean Petitot, French-Swiss enamel painter (died 1691)
• July 13 - Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian etcher (died 1677)
• October 24 – Jan Lievens (died 1674), Dutch painter and visual artist
• specific date not listed
  • Hendrick Andriessen, Flemish still-life painter (died 1655)
  • Bartholomeus Assteyn, Dutch painter (died 1669/1677)
  • Francesco Cairo, Italian painter active in Lombardy and Piedmont (died 1665)
  • Vincenzo Dandini, Italian painter active in Florence (died 1675)
  • Frans Francken III, Flemish painter (died 1667)
  • Mathieu Le Nain ("le Chevalier") (died 1677) of the Le Nain brothers, French Baroque painter
  • Alfonso Rivarola, Italian painter, active mainly in his native Ferrara (died 1640)
  • Cornelis Saftleven, Dutch painter (died 1681)
  • Gerard van Zyl, Dutch Golden Age painter of portraits and genre scenes (died 1665)

Deaths

• January - Gillis van Coninxloo, Dutch painter of forest landscapes (born 1544)
• March - Étienne Dupérac, French painter, draughtsman and engraver, topographer and antiquarian (born 1520)
• April 6 - Jan Saenredam, Dutch engraver (born 1565)
• May 10 - Pieter Schoubroeck, German landscape painter (born c.1570)
• July 24 - Alessandro Pieroni, Italian mannerist painter and architect (born 1550)
• September 22 - Alessandro Allori, Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school (born 1535)
• date unknown - Cornelius Cure, English-born sculptor of Dutch parentage
• probable - Barthel Bruyn the Younger, German portraitist, son of Barthel Bruyn the Elder (born 1530)

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