Events from the year 1594 in art.
Events
- Hendrick de Clerck becomes court painter to Archduke Ernest of Austria.
Paintings
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Anon., Gabrielle d'Estrées -
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Gheeraerts, Captain Thomas Lee -
Tintoretto, The Last Supper
- Caravaggio
- Ludovico Carracci – Transfiguration
- Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger – Captain Thomas Lee
- Tommaso Laureti – Frescos in Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome (1587–94)
- Tintoretto – The Last Supper (fresco in San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, 1592–94)
- Second School of Fontainebleau – Gabrielle d'Estrées and one of her sisters (Louvre, Paris)
Sculpture
Births
- March 25 - Maria Tesselschade Visscher, Dutch poet and engraver (died 1649)
- June 15 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter in the classical style (died 1665)
- July 10 - Bartolomeo Gennari, Italian Renaissance painter (died 1661)
- December - Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, Dutch portrait and landscape painter (died 1652)
- December 14 - Willem Claeszoon Heda, Dutch artist devoted exclusively to the painting of still life (died 1680)
- date unknown
- Charles Audran, French engraver (died 1674)
- Giovanni Battista Barca, Italian painter (died 1650)
- Peter Oliver, English miniaturist (died 1648)
- Clara Peeters, Flemish still life painter (died c.1657)
- Carlo Ridolfi, Italian art biographer and painter (died 1658)
- Cornelis van Poelenburgh, Dutch painter (died 1667)
Deaths
- May 31 – Tintoretto (real name Jacopo Comin) Italian painter of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance (born 1518)
- date unknown
- Cristóvão Lopes, Portuguese portrait and altarpiece painter (born 1516)
- Francisco Venegas, Spanish painter active in Portugal (born 1525)