1598 in art

Overview of the events of 1598 in art

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Events from the year 1598 in art.

Events

Marin le Bourgeoys is appointed Valet de Chambre to King Henry IV of France. At court he produces artwork, firearms, air guns, crossbows, and movable globes.
The first recorded use of the term "landscape" in English, to refer to a genre of painting, borrowed from the Dutch term "landschap".

Federico Barocci (Galleria Borghese, Rome)
- Aeneas' Flight from Troy
- St. Jerome
Caravaggio
- Saint Catherine
- Sacrifice of Isaac
- Martha and Mary Magdalene
- Portrait of Maffeo Barberini

May 23 - Claude Mellan, French engraver and painter (died 1688)
July 31 – Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (died 1654)
November 7 – Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish Baroque painter (died 1664)
December 7 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian Baroque sculptor and architect of 17th century Rome (died 1680)
date unknown
- Bartholomeus Breenbergh, Dutch painter (died 1657)
- Domingos da Cunha, Portuguese painter (died 1644)
- Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari, Italian painter of the Baroque period active in Genoa (died 1669)
- Willem de Passe, Dutch engraver and designer of medals (died 1637)
- Chen Hongshou, Chinese painter of late Ming Dynasty (died 1652)
- Willem Hondius, Dutch engraver, cartographer and painter (died 1652/1658)
- Lambert Jacobsz, Dutch painter (died 1636)
- Jean Lemaire, French painter (died 1659)
- Bernard van Linge, Dutch glass and enamel painter (died 1644)
probable - Wang Jian, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty (died 1677)