1593 in art

, Boy with a Basket of Fruit, 1593 • Caravaggio – Boy with a Basket of Fruit • Santi di Tito – Vision of St Thomas Aquinas • Cornelis van Haarlem – The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis • Hans von Aachen – Pallas Athena, Venus and Juno • Rowland Lockey- Sir Thomas More and Family • Streatham portrait ==Births==

• March 13 - Georges de La Tour, painter from the Duchy of Lorraine, now in France (died 1652) • May 19 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish Baroque painter from the Antwerp school of painting (died 1678) • July 8 - Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian Baroque painter (d. c.1654) • September 22 - Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (died 1650) • October - Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen, Dutch portrait painter (died 1661) • December 23 - Ercole Sarti, Italian deaf painter, active in Ferrara (d. unknown) • date unknown • Giovanni Battista Barbiani, Italian painter (died 1650) • Willem van Haecht, Flemish painter (died 1637) • Balthasar van der Ast, Dutch Golden Age painter who specialized in still lifes of flowers and fruit (died 1657) • Jan van de Velde, Dutch School painter and engraver of animal, landscape and still-life subjects (died 1641) • probable • Louis Le Nain, French painter of the Le Nain family of painters (died 1648) • Ni Yuanlu, Chinese calligrapher and painter during the Ming Dynasty (died 1644) • Balthasar van der Ast, Dutch painter who specialized in still lifes of flowers and fruit (died 1657) • 1593/1601: Pieter Soutman, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1657) ==Deaths==

• July 11 - Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter best known for creating portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, and flowers (born 1527) • November 20 - Hans Bol, Flemish painter (born 1534) • November 30 - Niccolò Granello, Italian fresco painter established in Spain (born 1553) • date unknown • Claudio de Arciniega, Spanish sculptor and architect (born 1520) • Giovanni Paolo Lolmo, Italian painter (born 1550) • Zhang Han, Chinese scholar-official, literary author, painter, and essayist (born 1511) • Xu Wei, Ming Dynasty Chinese painter, poet and dramatist (born 1521) • probable - Jean Cousin the Elder, French painter, sculptor, etcher, engraver, and geometrician (born 1500) ==References==