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The year 1593 in art involved some significant events and new works.
Events
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Paintings
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- Caravaggio – Boy with a Basket of Fruit
- Santi di Tito – Vision of St Thomas Aquinas
- Cornelis van Haarlem – The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
- Hans von Aachen – Pallas Athena, Venus and Juno
- Rowland Lockey- Sir Thomas More and Family
- Streatham portrait
Births
- 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)
Deaths
- 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
- probable - Jean Cousin the Elder, French painter, sculptor, etcher, engraver, and geometrician (born 1500)