Events from the year 1613 in art.

Events

• April 27 – Inigo Jones is appointed Surveyor of the King's Works in England.
• August 11 – Cesare Corte, after a period imprisoned by the Roman Inquisition, confesses and undergoes a public abjuration of his heretical beliefs. He dies in prison a few weeks later.^[1]

Paintings

• Cristofano Allori – Judith with the Head of Holofernes (Palazzo Pitti, Florence)
• Jan Brueghel the Elder – The Entry of the Animals Into Noah's Ark
• Lavinia Fontana – Minerva Dressing
• Hendrik Goltzius – Adam and Eve^[2]

Births

• February 24 – Mattia Preti, Italian Baroque artist who worked in Italy and Malta (died 1699)
• March 12 – André Le Nôtre, landscape architect (died 1700)
• April 7 – Gerrit Dou (or Gerard Dow), Dutch painter (died 1675), pupil of Rembrandt
• October 12 – Jacques d'Arthois, Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in landscapes (died 1686)
• date unknown
  • Pier Martire Armani, Italian painter (died 1669)
  • Gian Pietro Bellori, Italian painter, antiquarian and biographer of artists (died 1696)
  • Marco Boschini, Italian painter of the early-Baroque period in Venice (died 1678)
  • Giovanni Maria Bottala, Italian painter (died 1644)
  • Conrad Buno, German copperplate engraver, cartographer and publisher (died 1671)
  • Giulio Carpioni, Italian painter and etcher of the early Baroque era (died 1678)
  • Dirck Cornelis de Hooch, Dutch portrait painter (died 1651)
  • Pieter de Bailliu, Flemish engraver (died unknown)
  • Aniella di Beltrano, Italian painter (died 1649)
  • Cornelis Mahu, Flemish painter (died 1689)
  • Giovanni Paolo Oderico, Italian painter mainly active in Genoa (died 1657)
  • Antonio Travi, deaf Italian landscape painter (died 1668)
  • Giulio Trogli, Italian painter nicknamed il Paradosso ("the Paradox") (died 1685)
  • Bartholomeus van der Helst, Dutch portrait painter (died 1670)
  • Jacob van der Roer van Dordrecht, Dutch Golden Age portrait painter (died 1691)

Deaths

• February 27 – Pietro Facchetti, Italian painter primarily of portraits (born 1539)
• March 13 – Giovanni Battista Caccini, Italian sculptor (born 1556)
• March 23 – Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont, Spanish soldier, painter, musician and inventor (born 1553)
• March 25 – Taddeo Carlone, Swiss-Italian sculptor and architect (date of birth unknown)
• July – Giovan Battista Cavagna, architect, engineer and painter
• June 18 – Cigoli, Italian painter and architect of the late Mannerist period (born 1559)
• July 19 – Nicolaus van Aelst, Flemish engraver and painter (born 1526)
• date unknown
  • Durante Alberti, Italian painter, member of family of artists (born 1538)
  • Cesare Corte, Italian painter active mainly in his natal city of Genoa (born 1554)
  • Ercole dell'Abate, Italian painter (born 1563)
  • Giovanni Battista da Ponte, Italian painter active in Venice and his native Bassano del Grappa (born 1533)
  • Simone de Magistris, Italian painter and sculptor (born 1555)
  • Ventura Salimbeni, Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker (born 1568)