1601 in art

Events from the year 1601 in art.

Events

• July – Nicholas Hilliard writes to Robert Cecil, England's Secretary of State, acknowledging an annuity of £40, and asking permission to retire from London to save on household expenses.^[1]

Paintings

• Caravaggio
  • The Conversion of Saint Paul (1600-1601)^{[citation needed]}
  • Conversion on the Way to Damascus^[2]
  • Crucifixion of St. Peter^[2]
  • Supper at Emmaus^[3]
• Annibale Carracci – Assumption of the Virgin (1600-1601, Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome)
• Peter Paul Rubens – The Deposition^[4]

Births

• January 19 – Guido Cagnacci, Italian painter of the Bolognese School (died 1663)^[5]
• March 19 – Alonso Cano, Spanish painter, architect and sculptor (died 1667)
• September 13 – Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (died 1678)^[6]
• November 15 – Cecco Bravo, Florentine painter of the Baroque period (died 1661)
• date unknown
  • Hendrick Bloemaert, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1672)
  • Pieter de Bloot, Dutch painter (died 1658)
  • Martin Droeshout, engraver (died 1650)
  • Shi Kefa, Chinese government official and calligrapher (died 1645)
• probable
  • Simon de Vlieger, painter (died 1653)
  • Paulus Bor, Dutch painter (died 1669)
  • Michel Corneille the Elder, French painter, etcher, and engraver (died 1664)

Deaths

• May 10 – Hans van Steenwinckel the Elder, Flemish/Danish sculptor and architect (born 1550)^[7]
• July 24 – Joris Hoefnagel, Flemish painter and engraver (born 1542)^[8]
• August 10 – Giovanni Alberti, Italian painter (born 1558)^[9]
• date unknown
  • Giacomo del Duca, Italian sculptor (born 1520)
  • Zacharias Dolendo, Dutch engraver (born 1561)
  • Teodoro Ghisi, Italian engraver (born 1536)
  • Hugues Sambin, French sculptor and woodworker (born 1520)^[10]
  • Paris Nogari, Italian painter (born 1536)
• probable – Cesare Vecellio, Italian engraver and painter (born 1530)

References

1. ^ HMC, Manuscripts of the Marquis of Salisbury at Hatfield House, vol. 11 (1906), p. 306
2. ^ Hibbard, Howard (1983). Caravaggio. Westview Press. p. 119. ISBN 0-06-430128-1.
3. ^ Grovier, Kelly (18 June 2021). "The Supper at Emmaus: A coded symbol hidden in a masterpiece". BBC. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
4. ^ "Peter Paul Rubens, The Deposition". Galleria Borghese. Retrieved 20 March 2026.
5. ^ Salomon, Xavier F. (2016). The Art of Guido Cagnacci. The Frick Collection. p. 19.
6. ^ "Jan Brueghel (II)". RKD. Retrieved 20 March 2026.
7. ^ The Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art: Orley-Zygmunt III. Oxford University Press. 2009. p. 299.
8. ^ Lee Hendrix & Thea Vignau-Wilberg (eds.) (2020). Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta: A Sixteenth-century Calligraphic Manuscript Inscribed by Georg Bocskay and Illuminated by Joris Hoefnagel. J. Paul Getty Museum. p. 23. ISBN 9781606066584.
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10. ^ Emmanuelle Brugerolles & David Guillet (1995). The Renaissance in France: Drawings from the Ecole Des Beaux-arts, Paris. Harvard University Art Museums. p. 234. ISBN 9780916724863.