Events from the year 1605 in art.

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  Caravaggio, Madonna and Child with St. Anne 1605
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  Caravaggio, Christ on the Mount of Olives 1605
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  Caravaggio, Ecce Homo 1605
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  Caravaggio, Saint Jerome in Meditation 1605

• Caravaggio
  • Christ on the Mount of Olives
  • Ecce Homo
  • Saint Jerome in Meditation
  • Madonna and Child with St. Anne (Dei Palafrenieri)
• Domenichino (c.1604–05)
  • Landscape with fishermen, hunters and washerwomen (Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford)
  • Landscape with Fording (Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome)
  • Portrait of Cardinal Girolamo Agucchi (Uffizi, Florence)
  • A Virgin with a Unicorn (Palazzo Farnese, Rome; fresco to a design by Carracci)
• Nicholas Hilliard - miniature portrait of Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham
• Guido Reni - David with the Head of Goliath
• Peter Paul Rubens - The Fall of Phaeton (approximate date of original completion)
• Joachim Wtewael - The Judgement of Paris (approximate date)
• Domenico Zampieri - portrait of Cardinal Agucchi

• February 17 - Luca Ferrari, Italian painter (died 1654)
• May 29 - Hendrick van Anthonissen, Dutch marine painter (died 1656)
• August - Ercole Procaccini the Younger, Italian painter of altarpieces, later director of the academy established by the Procaccini (died 1675/1680)
• date unknown
  • Ottavio Amigoni, Italian painter, active in Brescia (died 1661)
  • Jacopo Baccarini – Italian painter of the Baroque period born in Reggio Emilia (died 1682)
  • Carlo Biffi, Italian painter (died 1675)
  • Carlo Bozzoni, Italian painter (died 1657)
  • Carlo Cornara, Italian painter born in Milan (died 1673)
  • Francesco Cozza, Italian painter (died 1682)
  • Pedro de Camprobín, Spanish painter of animals, fruit, and flowers (died 1674)
  • Felice Ficherelli, Italian painter active in Tuscany (died 1660)
  • Girolamo Forabosco, Italian painter (died 1679)
  • Pietro Liberi, Italian painter nicknamed il Libertino (died 1687)
  • Francesco Maffei, Italian painter characterized by provincial stylistic quirks (died 1660)
  • Pierre Patel ("le bon Patel"), French Baroque era painter (died 1676)
  • Cheng Sui, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (died 1691)
• probable
  • Adriaen Brouwer, Flemish genre painter (died 1638)
  • Pedro de Campolargo, Flemish-born Spanish painter and engraver (died 1675)
  • Dirk van Delen, Dutch Baroque Era painter (died 1671)
  • Luigi Primo, Flemish painter of portraits and altarpieces (died 1667)
  • Bartolommeo Scaligero, Italian painter (date of death unknown)
  • 1605-1610: Abraham Willemsens, Flemish painter of history and genre paintings (died 1672)

• February 11 - Stradanus, Flanders-born mannerist painter (born 1523)
• March 17 - Pieter Bast, Dutch cartographer, engraver and draftsman (born 1550)
• date unknown
  • Cristofano dell'Altissimo, Italian painter primarily working in Florence (born 1525)
  • Biagio Betti, Italian painter (born 1535)
  • Giovanni Contarini, Venetian painter (born 1549)
  • Giacomo Lauro, Italian painter (born 1550)
  • Gregorio Pagani, Italian painter active mainly in Florence (born 1558)
  • Felice Riccio, Italian painter (born 1542)
  • Giacomo Rocca, Italian painter (born 1592)
• probable - Leonard Fryer, sergeant-painter to Queen Elizabeth I of England (date of birth unknown)