Events from the year 1617 in art.

• Kanō Tan'yū becomes an official artist of the Tokugawa shogunate.
• Lucas Vorsterman joins the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens, soon becoming Rubens's primary engraver.

• Abu al-Hasan - Shah Jahangir
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini - marble sculptures
  • The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence (probable date)
  • with Pietro Bernini - Boy with a Dragon
• Frans Hals - Shrovetide Revellers
• Peter Paul Rubens
  • Adoration of the Magi
  • Mars and Rhea Silvia (approximate date)
• Nicholas Stone - floor tomb of Sir William Curle in St Etheldreda's church, Old Hatfield, England^[1]
• Diego Velázquez - The Lunch
• Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom - Dutch Ships Ramming Spanish Galleys off the Flemish Coast in October 1602

• January 19 – Lucas Faydherbe, Dutch sculptor and architect (died 1697)
• January 22 – Ludovicus Neefs, Flemish painter (died 1649)
• February 5 – Jan Thomas van Ieperen, Flemish painter and engraver (died 1673)
• May – John Michael Wright, English baroque portrait painter (died 1694)
• August 10 (bapt.) – Ambrosius Brueghel, Flemish painter (died 1675)
• October 17 – Dionisio Lazzari, Italian sculptor and architect (died 1689)
• November 19 – Eustache Le Sueur, co-founder of the French Academy of painting (died 1655)
• November 21 – Tosa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter (died 1691)
• December – Gerard ter Borch, Dutch subject painter (died 1681)
• December 7 – Evaristo Baschenis, Italian Baroque painter primarily of still lifes (died 1677)
• December 31 – Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter best known for his religious works (died 1682)
• date unknown
  • Emanuel de Witte, Dutch perspective painter (died 1692)
  • Pellegrino Piola, Italian painter (died 1640)
  • Paolo Porpora, Italian painter of floral still lifes (died 1670)
  • Carlo Sacchi, Italian painter and engraver (died 1706)

• January 1 – Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch printmaker, draughtsman and painter (born 1588)
• September – Louis Finson - Flemish painter of the Dutch Golden Age (born 1580)^[2]
• October 2 – Isaac Oliver, French-born English portrait miniature painter (born 1565)
• date unknown
  • Fabrizio Castello, Italian painter of Genoese origin settled in Spain (born 1562)^[3]
  • Hans Ruprecht Hoffmann, German sculptor (born c.1545)
  • Giovanni Battista Vernici, Italian painter (born unknown)
  • Andrea Vicentino, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1542)^[4]