1592 in art

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Tintoretto, the Last Supper fresco

Caravaggio, Boy Peeling Fruit

Events from the year 1592 in art.

Events

Giulio Mancini comes to Rome and quickly builds a brilliant medical career, eventually becoming personal physician to Pope Urban VIII; while there, he becomes a discerning art collector.

Caravaggio – Boy Peeling Fruit
Annibale Carracci
- helps complete (along with brothers) Founding of Rome frescoes in Palazzo Magnani, Bologna
- Assumption for Bonasoni chapel in church of San Francesco
- The Madonna of Bologna for chapel of Caprara Palace (Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford; approximate date)
- The Virgin Appears to the Saints Luke and Catherine (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Giuseppe Cesari – Cappella Olgiati in Santa Prassede, Rome
Hendrik Goltzius – engravings of the Muses
Tintoretto – begins Last Supper fresco (San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice; completed in 1594)

February 23 - Balthazar Gerbier, Dutch art advisor and designer at the English court (died 1663)
March 20 – Giovanni da San Giovanni, Italian painter (died 1636)
September 5 – Jacopo Vignali, Florentine painter (died 1664)
October 30 - Giulio Benso, Genovese painter (died 1668)
November 4 - Gerard van Honthorst, Dutch painter of Utrecht (died 1656)
date unknown
- Miquel Bestard, Spanish painter from Majorca (died 1633)
- Jacques Callot, printmaker and draughtsman from Lorraine (died 1635)
- Ingen, Chinese Linji Chán Buddhist monk, poet, and calligrapher (died 1673)
- Claes Corneliszoon Moeyaert, Catholic Dutch painter (died 1655)
- Giacomo Rocca, Italian painter (died 1605)
- Peter Snayers, Flemish battlefield painter (died 1666 or 1667)
- Wang Duo, Chinese calligrapher and painter of the Ming Dynasty (died 1652)
probable
- Jacob Pynas, Dutch painter (died 1650)
- Wang Shimin, Chinese landscape painter during the Ch'ing Dynasty (died 1680)
- Shao Mi, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty (died 1642)

February 13 – Jacopo Bassano, Italian landscape and genre painter (born 1510)
February 23 - Natale Bonifacio, engraver and producer of woodcuts (born 1537/1538)
March 5 – Michael Coxcie, painter (born 1499)
April 5 - Jerónimo Cosida, Spanish Renaissance painter, sculptor, goldsmith and architect (born 1510)
April 13 - Bartolomeo Ammanati, architect and sculptor (born 1511)
May - Dirck Barendsz, Dutch painter who was born and died in Amsterdam (born 1534)
July 4 - Francesco Bassano the Younger, painter (born 1559)
date unknown
- Willem Boy, Flemish painter, sculptor, and architect active in Sweden (born 1520)
- Alessandro Fei, Italian painter who primarily worked in a Mannerist style (born 1543)
- David Kandel, Strasbourg-born botanical illustrator (born 1520)
- Girolamo Muziano, Italian painter (born 1532)