1597 in art

Events from the year 1597 in art.

Works

Federico Barocci - Nativity (Museo del Prado)
Caravaggio
- Penitent Magdalene
- Rest on the Flight into Egypt
- Medusa (second version)
- Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto (Villa Ludovisi, Rome)
Dong Qichang - Wanluan Thatched Hall
Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, in Garter robes (approximate date)
El Greco - The Saint Joseph and the Christ Child (including a view of Toledo, Spain)
Christ Pantocrator together with the twelve apostles, above the entrance gate of the Holy Virgin main church in the Rohzen Monastery, Bulgaria

February 2 - Jacob van Campen, Dutch artist and architect of the Golden Age (died 1657)
March 10 - Ercole Gennari, Italian Renaissance drawer and painter (died 1658)
June 9 - Pieter Jansz Saenredam, Dutch painter of structures, architectural portraitist (died 1665)
July 2 - Theodoor Rombouts, Flemish painter (died 1637)
September 28 - Justus Sustermans, Flemish painter in the Baroque style (died 1681)
date unknown
- Claude Audran the Elder, French engraver (died 1677)
- Orfeo Boselli, Italian sculptor working in Rome (died 1667)
- Salomon de Bray (or Braij), Dutch painter (died 1664)
- Pedro de Obregón, Spanish painter and printmaker (died 1659)
- Henricus Hondius II, Dutch engraver, cartographer and publisher (died 1651)
- Juan Ribalta, Spanish painter (died 1628)
- Xiang Shengmo, Chinese painter in the Qing Dynasty (died 1658)
probable
- Jan van Bijlert, Dutch painter, co-founder of the Bentvueghels (died 1671)
- Pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter (died 1660)
- Giacomo di Castro, Italian painter (died 1687)
- Ludovico Lana, Italian painter, mainly active in Modena (died 1646)
- Johann Liss, German-born painter (died c. 1631)

February 2 - Lucas van Valckenborch, Flemish landscape painter (b. c.1535)
September 28 - Hendrick van den Broeck, Flemish painter active mainly in Rome (born 1519)
date unknown
- Giovanni Battista de'Cavalieri, Italian engraver (born 1526)
- Prospero Fontana, Italian painter of the late Renaissance (born 1512)
- Francesco Morandini, Italian painter active in Florence (born 1544)
- Willem Thibaut, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1524)