1592 in art
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Tintoretto, the Last Supper fresco

Caravaggio, Boy Peeling Fruit

Events

Works

• Giuseppe Cesari - Cappella Olgiati in Santa Prassede
• Tintoretto begins work on the Last Supper fresco (San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice; completed in 1594)
• Caravaggio paints Boy Peeling Fruit

Births

• March 20 - Giovanni da San Giovanni, Italian painter (d. 1636)
• September 5 - Jacopo Vignali, Florentine painter (d. 1664)
• Balthazar Gerbier, Dutch art advisor and designer at the English court (d. 1663)
• Gerard van Honthorst - Dutch painter of Utrecht (d. 1656)
• Claes Corneliszoon Moeyaert - Catholic Dutch painter (d. 1655)
• Jacob Pynas - Dutch painters of the Baroque period (d. 1650)
• Giulio Benso - Genovese painter of the early Baroque (d. 1668)
• Wang Shimin - Chinese landscape painter during the Ch'ing Dynasty (d. 1680)
• Shao Mi - Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty (d. 1642)
• Wang Duo - Chinese calligrapher and painter in Ming Dynasty (d. 1652)

Deaths

• February 13 - Jacopo Bassano, painter (born c1515)
• March 5 - Michael Coxcie, painter (born 1499)
• Bartolomeo Ammanati, architect and sculptor (born 1511)
• Francesco Bassano the Younger, painter (born 1559)
• Girolamo Muziano, painter (born 1532)
• Dirck Barendsz - Dutch painter who was born and died in Amsterdam (b. 1534)
• Willem Boy - Flemish painter, sculptor, and architect (b. unknown)
• Aurelio Luini - Italian painter from Milan (b. 1530)