1621 in art

Events

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Paintings

Guercino – Aurora

• Giovanni Francesco Barbieri – The Suicide of Cleopatra
• Guercino – Aurora (fresco, Casino di Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi, Rome)
• Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri – Virgin and Child
• 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)
  • Jan Baptist Weenix, painter of the Dutch Golden Age (died 1660)
  • Jacques Courtois, French painter (died 1676)
  • Giuseppe Diamantini, Italian painter and printmaker of the Baroque period (died 1705)
• 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
  • Louis de Caullery, French painter (born 1555)
  • Ambrosius Bosschaert, Dutch painter (born 1573)
  • Bernardino Cesari, Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early Baroque period (born 1565)
  • Dirk Pietersz, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1558)
  • Terenzio Terenzi, Italian painter (born 1575)