Events from the year 1598 in art.

• Marin le Bourgeoys is appointed Valet de Chambre to King Henry IV of France. At court he produces artwork, firearms, air guns, crossbows, and movable globes.
• The first recorded use of the term "landscape" in English, to refer to a genre of painting, borrowed from the Dutch term "landschap".

• Federico Barocci (Galleria Borghese, Rome)
  • Aeneas' Flight from Troy
  • St. Jerome
• Caravaggio
  • Saint Catherine
  • Sacrifice of Isaac
  • Martha and Mary Magdalene
  • Portrait of Maffeo Barberini

• Caravaggio, Saint Catherine
• Caravaggio, Sacrifice of Isaac
• Caravaggio, Martha and Mary Magdalene
• Caravaggio, Portrait of Maffeo Barberini

• May 23 - Claude Mellan, French engraver and painter (died 1688)
• July 31 – Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (died 1654)
• November 7 – Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish Baroque painter (died 1664)
• December 7 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian Baroque sculptor and architect of 17th century Rome (died 1680)
• date unknown
  • Bartholomeus Breenbergh, Dutch painter (died 1657)
  • Domingos da Cunha, Portuguese painter (died 1644)
  • Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari, Italian painter of the Baroque period active in Genoa (died 1669)
  • Willem de Passe, Dutch engraver and designer of medals (died 1637)
  • Chen Hongshou, Chinese painter of late Ming Dynasty (died 1652)
  • Willem Hondius, Dutch engraver, cartographer and painter (died 1652/1658)
  • Lambert Jacobsz, Dutch painter (died 1636)
  • Jean Lemaire, French painter (died 1659)
  • Bernard van Linge, Dutch glass and enamel painter (died 1644)
• probable - Wang Jian, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty (died 1677)

• March 27 - Theodor de Bry, Flemish-born engraver, draftsman and book editor and publisher (born 1528)
• April 19 - Hans Fugger, patron of the arts (born 1531)
• June 25 - Giacomo Gaggini, Italian sculptor (born 1517)
• December 28 - Gillis Mostaert, Dutch painter, son of Jan Mostaert (b. c.1535)
• date unknown
  • Giovanni Antonio di Amato the younger, Italian painter (born 1528)
  • René Boyvin, French engraver who lived in Angers (born 1525)
  • Benedetto Caliari, Italian painter (born 1538)
  • Jacopino del Conte, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1510)
  • Guillaume Le Bé, French engraver (born 1525)
• probable - Marcin Kober, Polish court painter to King Stefan Batory (born 1550)