1621 in art explained

Events from the year 1621 in art.

Events

• Dutch painter Johannes van der Beeck is jailed for failing to pay alimony to his former wife Neeltgen van Camp.^[1]

Paintings

• Giovanni Francesco Barbieri – The Suicide of Cleopatra
• Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger – Susanna Temple
• Guercino
  • Aurora (fresco, Casino di Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi, Rome)
  • Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (approximate date)
• Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri – Virgin and Child
• Jacob Jordaens – The Family of the Artist (1621-2)
• Dirck van Baburen – Youth Playing a Small Whistle
• Domenico Zampieri – The Assumption of Mary Magdalene into Heaven

Births

• May 25 – David Beck, Dutch portrait painter (died 1656)
• June
  • Allaert van Everdingen, Dutch painter and printmaker in etching and mezzotint (died 1675)
  • Isaac van Ostade, Dutch genre and landscape painter (died 1649)
• August 19 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, painter of the Dutch Golden Age (died 1674)
• date unknown
  • Giacinto Brandi, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome and Naples (died 1691)
  • Fabrizio Chiari, painter and engraver (died 1695)
  • Jacques Courtois, French painter (died 1676)
  • Giuseppe Diamantini, Italian painter and printmaker of the Baroque period (died 1705)
  • Albrecht Kauw, Swiss still-life painter, cartographer and a painter of vedute (died 1681)
  • Matthew Snelling, English miniature painter (died 1678)
  • Robert Streater, English landscape, history, still-life and portrait artist, architectural painter, and etcher (died 1679)
  • Hendrick van Balen the Younger, Flemish painter (died 1663)
  • Jan Baptist Weenix, painter of the Dutch Golden Age (died 1660)
• probable – Giulio Cesare Milani, Italian painter (died 1678)

Deaths

• April 1 – Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (born 1577)
• May 15 – Hendrick de Keyser, Dutch sculptor and architect (born 1565)
• date unknown
  • Cornelis Boel, Flemish draughtsman and engraver (born 1576)
  • Louis de Caullery, French painter (born 1555)
  • Ambrosius Bosschaert, Dutch painter (born 1573)
  • Marzio di Colantonio, Italian painter of still lifes and landscapes, and fresco decorations (born 1560)
  • Dirk Pietersz, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1558)
  • Terenzio Terenzi, Italian painter (born 1575)
  • Giovanni Vasanzio, Dutch-born architect, garden designer and engraver (born 1550)

Notes and References

1. "Johannes Torrentius" (1993). In Ger Luijten, Ariane van Suchtelen, Michael Hoyle (Eds.), Dawn of the Golden Age: Northern Netherlandish Art, 1580-1620. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. p. 319., .