Editing 1598 in art (section)

==Births==
*[[May 23]] - [[Claude Mellan]], [[France|French]] [[engraving|engraver]] and painter (died [[1688 in art|1688]])
*[[July 31]] – [[Alessandro Algardi]], Italian sculptor (died 1654)
*[[November 7]] – [[Francisco de Zurbarán]], Spanish [[Baroque]] painter (died 1664)<!-- August 27, 1664-->
*[[December 7]] – [[Gian Lorenzo Bernini]], Italian [[Baroque]] sculptor and architect of 17th century Rome (died [[1680 in art|1680]])
*''date unknown''
**[[Bartholomeus Breenbergh]], Dutch painter (died [[1657 in art|1657]])
**[[Domingos da Cunha]], Portuguese painter (died [[1644 in art|1644]])
**[[Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari]], Italian painter of the [[Baroque]] period active in [[Genoa]] (died [[1669 in art|1669]])
**[[Van de Passe family#The second generation|Willem de Passe]], Dutch engraver and designer of medals (died [[1637 in art|1637]])
**[[Chen Hongshou]], Chinese painter of late [[Ming Dynasty]] (died [[1652 in art|1652]])
**[[Willem Hondius]], Dutch engraver, cartographer and painter (died [[1652 in art|1652/1658]])
**[[Lambert Jacobsz]], Dutch painter (died [[1636 in art|1636]])
**[[Jean Lemaire (painter)|Jean Lemaire]], French painter (died [[1659 in art|1659]])
**[[Abraham van Linge|Bernard van Linge]], Dutch glass and enamel painter (died [[1644 in art|1644]])
*''probable'' - [[Wang Jian (17th-century painter)|Wang Jian]], [[China|Chinese]] [[Landscape painting|landscape painter]] during the [[Qing Dynasty]] (died [[1677 in art|1677]])