# 1590 in art

Events from the year 1590 in art.

## Events

* Gian Paolo Lomazzo produces his critical treatise Idea del tempio della pittura ("The ideal temple of painting").

## Works

* Federico Barocci - Christ and Mary Magdalen (Noli me tangere)
* Annibale Carracci
** Assumption of the Virgin (Museo del Prado, Madrid)
** The Beaneater (latest likely date)
* Antonio Circignani - Frescoes of the finding of the True Cross (Basilica of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, Rome)
* Hendrick de Clerck - Anne with the Virgin and Child (for Kapellekerk, Brussels; now in Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium there, inventory 53)
* Lavinia Fontana - Portrait of Gerolamo Mercuriale (approximate date)
* School of Fontainebleau - Gabrielle d'Estrees with a Sister
* Palma il Giovane - Francesco St Jerome, rare oil painting on copper
* Hasegawa Tōhaku - Shōrin-zu byōbu "Pine Trees" inkwash
* Cornelis van Haarlem – The Fall of the Titans (1588–1590)
* Crispin van den Broeck - Two Young Men

## Births

* March 25 (bapt.) - Andries van Eertvelt, Flemish Baroque painter, primarily sea scenes (died 1652)
* December 3 - Daniel Seghers, Jesuit brother and Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in flower still lifes (died 1661)
* date unknown
** Bartholomeus van Bassen, Dutch painter (died 1652)
** Jacopo Barbello, Italian painter (died 1656)
** Didier Barra, French Renaissance painter (died 1656)
** Christoffel van den Berghe, Dutch painter of the Baroque period (died 1645)
** Gregorio Bausá, Spanish painter (died 1656)
** Juan Bautista de Espinosa, Spanish still life painter (died 1641)
** Luciano Borzone, Italian painter with an antique style (died 1645)
** Giovanni Bernardo Carlone, Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque periods (died 1630)
** Bartolomeo Cavarozzi, Italian caravaggisti painter of the Baroque period active in Spain (died 1625)
** Giovanni Battista Coriolano, Italian engraver (died 1649)
** Felipe Diricksen, Spanish Baroque painter primarily of portraits and religious paintings (died 1679)
** Giovanni Battista Discepoli, crippled Italian painter (died 1660)
** Caterina Ginnasi, Italian painter of altarpieces for the church of Santa Lucia alle Botteghe Oscure (died 1660)
** Michel Lasne, French engraver, draughtsman and collector (died 1667)
** Floris van Schooten, Dutch painter (died 1655)
** Raffaello Vanni, Italian painter for churches (died 1657)
** Cornelis Verbeeck, Dutch painter (died 1637)
* probable
** Angelica Veronica Airola, Italian painter (died 1670)
** Camillo Berlinghieri, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1635)
** Giovanni Campino, Italian painter from Camerino (died 1650)
** Abraham de Vries, Dutch painter (died 1655)
** Paolo Domenico Finoglia, Italian painter of the early-Baroque period (died 1645)
** Esteban March, Spanish painter (died 1660)
** Daniël Mijtens, Dutch portrait painter (died 1647/1648)
** Mario Righetti, Italian painter active in his native Bologna (d. unknown)

## Deaths

* February 3 - Germain Pilon, French sculptors of the French Renaissance (born 1537)
* April 22 - Sigmund Feyerabend, German bookseller and wood-engraver (born 1528)
* July 22 - Leone Leoni, Italian sculptor and medallist (born 1509)
* October 12 - Kanō Eitoku, Japanese painter of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, patriarchs of the Kanō school of Japanese painting (born 1543)
* October 29 - Dirck Coornhert, Dutch writer, engraver, philosopher, translator, politician and theologian (born 1522)
* November 8 - Joost Janszoon Bilhamer, Dutch sculptor, engraver, and cartographer (born 1521)
* date unknown
** Cesare Baglioni, Italian painter specializing in quadratura (born 1525)
** Miguel Barroso, Spanish painter (born 1538)
** Wouter Crabeth I, Dutch glass painter (born 1510)
** Bernaert de Rijckere, Flemish painter (born 1535)
** Jacob Grimmer, Flemish landscape painter (born 1526)
** Girolamo Lombardo, Italian sculptor (born 1506)
** Domenico Poggini, Italian sculptor and engraver (born 1520)
** Marietta Robusti, Venetian painter of the Renaissance period (born 1560)
* probable - Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Flemish printmaker and painter associated with the English court of the mid-16th Century (born 1520)