Events from the year 1629 in art.

Events

• Pope Urban VIII asks Bernini to sketch possible renovations to the Trevi Fountain

Paintings

• Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger - Anne Hale, Mrs Hoskins
• Dirck Hals - Merry Company at Table (1627–29)
• Judith Leyster - Serenade
• Daniël Mijtens - James Hamilton, Marquess of Hamilton (adult portrait)
• Jan Porcellis - Vessels in a Moderate Breeze
• Nicolas Poussin - The Martyrdom of Saint Erasmus
• Rembrandt
  • Judas Repentant, Returning the Pieces of Silver
  • Self-portrait
• Guido Reni - Annunciation
• Sir Anthony Van Dyck - Rinaldo and Armida ^[1]
• Velázquez - Los Borrachos
• Francisco de Zurbarán - Vision of Saint Peter Nolasco

Births

• January - Gabriël Metsu, Dutch painter (died 1667)
• September 4 - Lorenzo Pasinelli, Italian painter in a Mannerism style of genre-like allegories (died 1700)
• December - Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (died 1684)
• date unknown
  • Antonio Vela Cobo, Spanish Baroque painter, sculptor and gilder (died 1675)
  • Pierre Le Gros the Elder, French sculptor for the Versailles (died 1714)
  • Giovanni Peruzzini, Italian painter of lunettes and religious themed works (died 1694)
  • Giovan Battista Ruoppolo, Neapolitan painter, notable for still-lifes (died 1693)

Deaths

• March 29 - Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch painter and engraver (born 1565)
• May 6 - Otto van Veen, painter, draughtsman, and humanist (born 1556)
• August 21 – Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter, in 1571 a student in the Bolognese painters' guild (born 1551)
• August 29 - Pietro Bernini, Italian sculptor and father of the more famous Gianlorenzo Bernini (born 1562)
• November - Filippo Napoletano, Italian artist of diverse paintings of exotic soldiers, skeletons of animals, or cityscapes (born 1587)
• November 1 - Hendrick ter Brugghen, Dutch painter, and a leading member of the Dutch followers of Caravaggio (born 1588)
• December 4 - Grazio Cossali, Italian painter (born 1563)
• date unknown
  • Abdón Castañeda, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1580)
  • Bartolomeo Cesi, Italian painter of the Bolognese School (born 1556)
  • Carlo Maderno, Italian sculptor (born 1556)
  • Aegidius Sadeler II, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family (born 1570)
  • Jacob van Doordt, Dutch portrait miniature painter (born unknown)
  • Antonio Vassilacchi, Greek painter active in Venice (born 1556)

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