1593 in art

Events from the year 1593 in art.

Events

Caravaggio, Boy with a Basket of Fruit, 1593

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)

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)