1609 in art

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Events from the year 1609 in art.

Events

• January 9 – Letters patent issued relating to accommodation and workshops for artists in the Louvre Palace mezzanine in Paris.
• Hans Krumpper becomes chief sculptor to the Bavarian court under Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria.
• Mesrop of Khizan paints a Gospel which ends up in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Paintings

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  Caravaggio, The Raising of Lazarus

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  Caravaggio, Adoration of the Shepherds

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  Caravaggio, Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence

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  Caravaggio, Salome with the Head of John the Baptist

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  Rubens, Honeysuckle Bower

• Caravaggio
  • The Raising of Lazarus
  • Adoration of the Shepherds
  • Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence
  • Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Royal Palace of Madrid)
• Adam Elsheimer – The Flight into Egypt
• El Greco – Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple (San Ginés, Madrid)
• Peter Paul Rubens – some dates approximate
  • Adoration of the Magi (original version for Antwerp City Hall)
  • Honeysuckle Bower
  • Judith Beheading Holofernes
  • Portrait of a young woman with a rosary

Births

• January 20 – Carlo Ceresa, Italian painter of portraitures, altarpieces and religious works (died 1679)
• March 1 (baptised) – Ambrosius Bosschaert the Younger, Dutch painter (died 1645)
• March 16 – Agostino Mitelli, Italian painter of quadratura (died 1660)
• March 23 (baptised) – Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian painter (died 1664)
• May 6 (baptised) – Antonie Waterloo, Dutch painter, publisher and draughtsman
• July 28 – Judith Leyster, Dutch painter of Haarlem (died 1660)
• August 25 – Giovanni Battista Salvi or Sassoferrato, Italian painter (died 1685)
• August 30 – Artus Quellinus the Elder, Flemish sculptor (died 1668)
• December 11 – Alexander Cooper, English Baroque miniature painter (died 1660)
• date unknown
  • Jacob Adriaensz Backer, Dutch painter (died 1651)
  • Giovanni Angelo Canini, Italian painter and engraver (died 1666)
  • Giovanni Domenico Cerrini, Italian painter from the Bolognese School (died 1681)
  • Samuel Cooper, English miniature painter (died 1672)
  • Bernardino Gagliardi, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1660)
  • Salomon Koninck, Dutch painter of genre scenes and portraits and engraver (died 1656)
  • Carlo Francesco Nuvolone, Italian painter working in Lombardy (died 1661 or 1662)
  • Tobias Pock, Austrian painter (died 1683)
  • Herman Saftleven, Dutch painter of the Baroque period (died 1685)
  • Giulio Cesare Venenti, Italian painter of landscapes and engraver (died 1697)
• probable
  • François Collignon, French engraver, print-seller and publisher (died 1687)
  • Domenico Gargiulo, Italian painter of landscapes (died 1675)

Deaths

• July 15 – Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (born 1560)
• July 20 – Federico Zuccari, Italian Mannerist painter and architect (born 1542/1543)
• October – Joseph Heintz the Elder, Swiss painter, draftsman and architect (born 1564)
• date unknown
  • Giovanni Battista Armenini, Italian art historian and critic (born 1530)
  • Aegidius Sadeler I, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family (born 1555)
  • Giusto Utens, Flemish painter of a series of Medicean villas (born unknown)
  • Tiburzio Vergelli, Italian sculptor and founder (born 1551)