title: 1653 in art
text: # 1653 in art
  
  Events from the year 1653 in art.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Architect and painter Lambert van Haven begins a 16-year period of travelling in Europe.
  * Construction of the Taj Mahal mausoleum at Agra in India is completed, probably to a design by Ustad Ahmad Lahauri, together with the Moti Masjid (Pearl Mosque) in Agra Fort.
  
  ## Works
  
  ### Paintings
  
  * Guercino - The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine
  * Claude Lorrain - The Adoration of the Golden Calf
  * Nicolaes Maes - Abraham Dismissing Hagar and Ishmael
  * Rembrandt van Rijn - Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer
  * Diego Velázquez
     * Portrait of the Infanta Maria Theresa of Spain
     * Portrait of Mariana of Austria (original version, Museo del Prado, 1652–53)
  * Jan van Kessel - series of insects and fruit
  
  ### Sculpture
  
  * Alessandro Algardi - Fuga d'Attila relief (St. Peter's Basilica, Rome)
  
  ## Births
  
  * January - Nicolas Fouché, French painter (died 1733)
  * January 23 - Giovanni Girolamo Bonesi, Italian painter (died 1725)
  * February 1 - Felix Meyer, Swiss painter and engraver (died 1713)
  * May 13 - Giuseppe Maria Mazza, Bolognese Rococo sculptor (died 1741)
  * October 20 - Charles-François Poerson, French painter (died 1725)
  * December 21 - Tommaso Aldrovandini, Italian painter (died 1736)
  * date unknown
     * Sébastien Barras, French painter and engraver (died 1703)
     * Carel de Vogelaer, Dutch still life painter (died 1695)
     * Jacques-Philippe Ferrand, French miniaturist and painter in enamel (died 1732)
     * Marcellus Laroon, Dutch painter and engraver, active in England (died 1702)
     * Angelo Massarotti, Italian painter active in his native Cremona (died 1723)
     * Kanō Tanshin, Japanese painter (died 1718)
     * Sante Vandi, Italian portrait painter (died 1716)
  * probable
     * Bonaventura Lamberti, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome (died 1721)
     * Gaspar van Wittel, Dutch landscape painter (died 1736)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * March - Simon de Vlieger, Dutch painter (b. 1601)
  * August 16 - Giuliano Finelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1601)
  * August 24 - Henry Stone, English painter (b. 1616)
  * August 29 - Gijsbert d'Hondecoeter, Dutch landscape and animal painter (b. 1604)
  * October 16 - Jan Wildens, Flemish Baroque painter and draughtsman specializing in landscapes (b. 1595/1596)
  * October 22 - Thomas de Critz, English painter (b. 1607)
  * date unknown
     * Antoon Faydherbe, Dutch sculptor (date of birth unknown)
     * Aletta Hanemans, model for Frans Hals (b. 1606)
  * probable
     * (d. 1653/1665) - Astolfo Petrazzi, Italian painter, active mainly in his native Siena (b. 1583)
     * (d. 1653/1656) - Nicolaes Pickenoy, Dutch painter of Flemish origin (b. 1588)
  