1588 in art

Events from the year 1588 in art.

Events

Annibale Carracci – approximate date
- Landscape with a Fishing Scene (Musée du Louvre)
- Venus with a Satyr and Cupids (Uffizi)
Hendrik Goltzius – The Four Disgracers (engravings)
George Gower – Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I of England
Cornelis van Haarlem - Baptism of Christ
Nicholas Hilliard – Young Man Among Roses
Kaspar Memberger the Elder – Building of the Ark
Hans von Aachen – The Judgement of Paris (approximate date)

January 10 – Nicolaes Eliaszoon Pickenoy, Dutch painter of Flemish origin (died 1653/1656)
January 20 – Francesco Gessi, Italian painter of frescoes (died 1649)
September 10 (bapt.) – Nicholas Lanier, English composer, singer, lutenist, painter and art collector (died 1666)
date unknown
- Claude Deruet, French Baroque painter (died 1660)
- Giuseppe Badaracco, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1657)
- Marco Antonio Bassetti, Italian painter (died 1630)
- Ilario Casolano, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1661)
- Hendrick ter Brugghen, Dutch painter, and a leading member of the Dutch followers of Caravaggio (died 1629)
- Jan Sadeler II, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family (died 1665)
- Cristóbal Vela, Spanish Baroque painter and gilder (died 1654)

March 9 – Pomponio Amalteo, Italian painter of the Venetian school (born 1505)
April 19 – Paolo Veronese, Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice (born 1528)
August 8 – Alonso Sánchez Coello, portrait painter of the Spanish Renaissance (born 1531/1532)
date unknown
- Marco Marchetti, Italian painter (born 1528)
- Jacques le Moyne de Morgues, French artist and member of Jean Ribault's expedition to the New World (born 1533)
- Plautilla Nelli, Florentine religious painter and nun (born 1524)
- Jacopo Strada, Italian painter, architect, goldsmith, inventor of machines, numismatist, linguist, collector and merchant of works of art (born 1507)