Events from the year 1584 in art.

• Giacomo della Porta completes the façade of the Church of the Gesu in Rome.
• Dutch Golden Age painting begins.

• Annibale Carracci – The Beaneater (possible date)
• Lavinia Fontana
  • Assumption of the Virgin with Saints Peter Chrysologus and Cassian
  • Portrait of the Coozzadini Family
• Matteo Perez d'Aleccio – Saint Christopher carrying the Infant Saviour on his shoulder (fresco, Seville Cathedral)
• Tintoretto – Capture of Zara from the Hungarians in 1346 amid a hurricane of missiles (Sala deilo Scrutinio, Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice)

• February 2 - Anna Visscher, Dutch artist, poet, and translator (died 1651)
• date unknown
  • Pietro Francesco Alberti, Italian painter and engraver for the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods (died 1638)
  • Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo, Italian painter active mainly in Genoa (died 1638)
  • Giacomo Apollonio, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods (died 1654)
  • David Bailly, Leiden artist (died 1657)
  • Cesare Bassano, Italian painter and engraver (died 1648)
  • Felice Damiani, Italian painter of religious themed works and altarpieces (died 1608)
  • Jean de Beaugrand, French lineographer and mathematician (died 1640)
  • Pieter de Valck, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1625)
  • Cornelis de Vos, Flemish Baroque painter (died 1651)
  • Rafael Sadeler II, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family (died 1627/1632)
  • Shōkadō Shōjō, Japanese Edo period Buddhist monk, painter, calligrapher and master of the tea ceremony (died 1639)
  • Jan Tengnagel, Dutch painter (died 1631)
  • Jacob van der Laemen, Flemish painter (died 1624)
• probable
  • Willem van der Vliet, Dutch painter and uncle of Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet (died 1642)

• January 4 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and illustrator (born 1539)
• January 30 - Pieter Pourbus, Dutch-born Flemish Renaissance painter (born 1523)
• May 22 - Ludger tom Ring the Younger, German painter and draughtsman (born 1522)
• May 25 - Prospero Spani, Italian sculptor (born 1516)
• August 29 - Lucas de Heere, Flemish portrait painter, poet and writer (born 1534)
• date unknown
  • Pieter Balten - Flemish Renaissance painter (born 1525)
  • Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau, French architect, sculptor, designer (born 1510)
  • Giovanni Filippo Criscuolo, Italian painter (born c.1500)
  • Jacques du Broeucq, Dutch sculptor and architect (born c.1505)
  • Hu Zhengyan, Chinese artist, printmaker, calligrapher and publisher (died 1674)
  • Pierre Reymond, French enamelist (born 1513)
• probable
  • Pieter Huys, Flemish painter (born 1519)
  • Lambert Sustris, Dutch painter (born 1515/1520)