Events

Works

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• El Greco painted a view of Toledo (the capital of Visigoth Spain) in The Saint Joseph and the Christ Child.
• A portrait of Sir Henry Unton was painted.
• At the Rohzen Monastery, Bulgaria, an image was painted of Christ Pantocrator together with the twelve apostles, above the entrance gate of the Holy Virgin main church.
• Caravaggio painted Penitent Magdalene
• Caravaggio painted Rest on the Flight into Egypt
• Caravaggio painted Medusa
• Caravaggio painted Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto
• Dong Qichang painted Wanluan Thatched Hall

Births

• Jan van Bijlert - Dutch painter, co-founder of the Bentvueghels (d. 1671)
• Salomon de Bray (or Braij), Dutch painter (d. 1664)
• Pieter Claesz van Haarlem, Dutch Baroque painter (d. 1661)
• Pieter Jansz Saenredam, Dutch painter of structures, architectural portraitist (d. 1665)
• Pieter Claesz - Dutch still life painter (d. 1660)
• Juan Ribalta - Spanish painter of the Baroque period (d. 1628)
• Theodoor Rombouts - Flemish painter (d. 1637)
• Jacob van Campen - Dutch artist and architect of the Golden Age (d. 1657)
• Giacomo di Castro - Italian painter of the Baroque period (d. 1687)
• Justus Sustermans - Flemish painter in the Baroque style (d. 1681)
• Ludovico Lana - Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Modena (d. 1646)
• Xiang Shengmo - Chinese painter in the Qing Dynasty (d. 1658)
• Orfeo Boselli - Italian sculptor working in Rome (d. 1667)

Deaths

• 1597 - Prospero Fontana - Italian painter of the late Renaissance, b. 1512

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