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1592 In Art
Events from the year 1592 in art. Events *Giulio Mancini comes to Rome and quickly builds a brilliant medical career, eventually becoming personal physician to Pope Urban VIII; while there, he becomes a discerning art collector. Works *Caravaggio – '' Boy Peeling Fruit'' *Annibale Carracci **helps complete (along with brothers) ''Founding of Rome'' frescoes in Palazzo Magnani, Bologna **''Assumption'' for Bonasoni chapel in church of San Francesco **''The Madonna of Bologna'' for chapel of Caprara Palace ( Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford; approximate date) **''The Virgin Appears to the Saints Luke and Catherine'' ( Musée du Louvre, Paris) * Giuseppe Cesari – Cappella Olgiati in Santa Prassede, Rome *Hendrik Goltzius – engravings of the Muses *Tintoretto – begins ''Last Supper'' fresco (San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice; completed in 1594) Births *February 23 - Balthazar Gerbier, Dutch art advisor and designer at the English court (died 1663) * March 20 – Giovanni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacopo Tintoretto - The Last Supper - WGA22649
Jacopo (also Iacopo) is a masculine Italian given name, derivant from Latin ''Iacōbus''. It is an Italian variant of Giacomo. * Jacopo Aconcio (), Italian religious reformer * Jacopo Bassano (1592), Italian painter * Iacopo Barsotti (1921–1987), Italian mathematician * Jacopo da Bologna (), Italian composer * Jacopo Comin (1518–1594), Italian painter otherwise known as Tintoretto * Jacopo Carucci (1494–1557), Italian painter otherwise known as Pontormo * Jacopo Corsi (1561–1602), Italian composer * Jacopo da Leona (died 1277), Italian poet * Jacopo Peri (1561–1633), Italian composer * Jacopo della Quercia (1438), Italian sculptor * Jacopo Riccati (1676–1754), Italian mathematician * Jacopo Sadoleto (1477–1547), Italian Catholic cardinal * Jacopo M. (1989), Italian Communicator, upholder of the European Commission Fictional characters: * Jacopo, a key character in the 2002 film version of ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (and a minor character in the book). * Jacopo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
February 23
Events Pre-1600 * 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution. * 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople – the Hagia Sophia. * 628 – Khosrow II, last Sasanian shah of Iran, is overthrown. * 705 – Empress Wu Zetian abdicates the throne, restoring the Tang dynasty. * 1455 – Traditionally the date of publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type. 1601–1900 * 1763 – Berbice slave uprising in Guyana: The first major slave revolt in South America. * 1778 – American Revolutionary War: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to help to train the Continental Army. * 1820 – Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed and the conspirators arrested. *1836 &nd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
November 4
Events Pre-1600 *1429 – Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War: Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier. * 1493 – Christopher Columbus reaches Leeward Island and Puerto Rico. * 1501 – Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII's first wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother – they would later marry. * 1576 – Eighty Years' War: In Flanders, Spain captures Antwerp (which is nearly destroyed after three days). 1601–1900 * 1677 – The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange; they later jointly reign as William and Mary. *1737 – The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated in Naples, Italy. * 1780 – The Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II against Spanish rule in the Viceroyalty of Peru begins. * 1783 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria. * 1791 – Northwest Indian War: The Western Confederacy of American Indian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1668 In Art
Events from the year 1668 in art. Events *The Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford is completed, to a design by Sir Christopher Wren with ceiling paintings by Robert Streater. Works *Viviano Codazzi and Filippo Lauri – ''The Bernini Arsenal at Civitavecchia'' *Jan de Bray – '' The artist and his wife as Ulysses and Penelope'' * Jean Baptiste Dieussart – lead statues ''Amor Dei'' and ''Amor Patriae'', Riddarhuset, Stockholm *Gerard de Lairesse – '' Allegory of the Five Senses'' *Charles Le Brun **''La Colère'' ** Equestrian portrait of Louis XIV *Adriaen van de Velde – ''Frozen Canal with Skaters and Hockey Players'' *Jan Vermeer **'' The Astronomer'' **''The Art of Painting'' (probably completed at or by this date) Births *''date unknown'' ** Giovanni Battista Cassana, Italian painter of fruit, flowers, and still-life (died 1738) ** Étienne-Jehandier Desrochers, French engraver (died 1741) **Yun Du-seo, Korean painter and scholar of the Joseon period (died 1715) ** Jan Gri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genoa
Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the List of cities in Italy, sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of Genoa, which in 2015 became the Metropolitan City of Genoa, had 855,834 resident persons. Over 1.5 million people live in the wider metropolitan area stretching along the Italian Riviera. On the Gulf of Genoa in the Ligurian Sea, Genoa has historically been one of the most important ports on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean: it is currently the busiest in Italy and in the Mediterranean Sea and twelfth-busiest in the European Union. Genoa was the capital of Republic of Genoa, one of the most powerful maritime republics for over seven centuries, from the 11th century to 1797. Particularly from the 12th century to the 15th century, the city played a leading role in the commercial trade in Europe, becoming one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giulio Benso
Giulio Benso (30 October 1592 – 1668) was a Genovese painter of the early Baroque. He is known as one of the followers of the style of Luca Cambiasi. Benso was born in Pieve di Teco. Initially under the patronage of Giovanni Carl Doria, he met Giulio Cesare Procaccini and was encouraged to study in the Genovese ''Accademia del Nudo''. Afterwards, he was apprenticed to Giovanni Battista Paggi. Apart from his work in Liguria, he decorated the Palazzo Grimaldi in Cagnes-sur-Mer with the ''Fall of Phaeton'' and sent works to the Abbey of Weingarten in Germany. In the 1640s, he completed his masterpiece, a fresco in the presbytery and apse of the church of the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata del Vastato. There are also paintings of his in his hometown of Pieve di Teco as well as in the parish church of Sant'Ambrogio in Alassio. Sources * Venancio Belloni, ''Pittura genovese del Seicento. Dal Manierismo al Barocco'', EMMEBI, Genoa, 1969. * Ezia Gavazza, ''La grande dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October 30
Events Pre-1600 * 637 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Antioch surrenders to the Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of the Iron Bridge. * 758 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates. *1137 – Ranulf of Apulia defeats Roger II of Sicily at the Battle of Rignano, securing his position as duke until his death two years later. *1270 – The Eighth Crusade ends by an agreement between Charles I of Anjou (replacing his deceased brother King Louis IX of France) and the Hafsid dynasty of Tunis, Tunisia. *1340 – ''Reconquista'': Portugal, Portuguese and Crown of Castile, Castilian forces halt a Muslim invasion at the Battle of Río Salado. 1601–1900 *1657 – Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660), Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios. *1806 – War of the Fourth Coalition: Convinced that he is facing a much larger force, Prussian General Friedrich Gisbert Wilhelm von Romberg, von Romberg, commanding 5,300 me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1664 In Art
Events from the year 1664 in art. Events * Approximate date - Isaac Fuller executes ceiling paintings in chapel of All Souls College, Oxford, England. Paintings * Frans Hals - Regents of the Old Men's Almshouse' * Claude Lorrain - Landscape with Psyche outside the Palace of Cupid (The Enchanted Castle)' * Daniel Schultz - '' Crimean Falconer of King John II Casimir with his Family'' * Willem van de Velde the Younger - ''The Dutch Fleet in the Goeree Straits (Guinea)'' * Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten - Trompe-l'œil Still Life Births *May 20 - Andreas Schlüter, German baroque sculptor and architect in the Petrine Baroque style (died 1714) *June 3 - Rachel Ruysch, Dutch artist who specialized in still-life paintings of flowers (died 1750) *December 26 - Johann Melchior Dinglinger, one of Europe's greatest goldsmiths, German artist in a Mannerist tradition into the " Age of Rococo" (died 1731) *''date unknown'' **Giuseppe Alberti, Italian painter (died 1716) ** Ferrante Amendol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacopo Vignali
Jacopo Vignali (September 5, 1592 – August 3, 1664) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period. Biography Vignali was born in Pratovecchio, near Arezzo, and initially trained under Matteo Rosselli. He painted the ceiling fresco of the ''Love of the Fatherland'' and ''Jacob's dream'' for the Casa Buonarroti in Florence. In 1616 he entered the Accademia del Disegno in Florence. In the 1620s, he painted the ''Investiture of St Benedict'' for the ''Confraternità di San Benedetto Bianco''. In 1622–23 he also contributed to fresco cycles for the Medici at the ''Casino Mediceo di San Marco'' in Florence, and at the Villa di Poggio Imperiale. Among his pupils were Domenico Bettini, Romolo Panfi, Alessandro Rosi, and Carlo Dolci. File:Cyparissus mg 0159.jpg, ''Cyparissus In Greek mythology, Cyparissus or Kyparissos (Ancient Greek: Κυπάρισσος, "cypress") was a boy beloved by Apollo or in some versions by other deities. In the best-known version of the story, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
September 5
Events Pre-1600 * 917 – Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu. * 1367 – Swa Saw Ke becomes king of Ava * 1590 – Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris. 1601–1900 *1622 – A hurricane overruns a Spanish fleet bound from Havana to Cadiz and sinks the galleon Atocha. Only five men are rescued, but 260 passengers and 200 million pesos are buried with the Atocha under 50 feet of water. *1661 – Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV's Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers. * 1666 – Great Fire of London ends: Ten thousand buildings, including Old St Paul's Cathedral, are destroyed, but only six people are known to have died. * 1697 – War of the Grand Alliance : A French warship commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville defeated an English squadron at the Battle of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1636 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1636, art Events from the year 1636 in art. Events * (unknown) Paintings * Orazio Gentileschi - ''Allegory of Peace and the Arts'' (ceiling for The Queen's House, Greenwich; now at Marlborough House, London) * Nicolas Poussin **'' A Dance to the Music of Time'' (''La Danse des Saisons''; 1634-36) **''The Triumph of Pan'' and ''The Triumph of Bacchus'' (decoration of Cardinal Richelieu's château) (1635-36) * Rembrandt **''Belshazzar's Feast'' (1635-36) **''The Blinding of Samson'' (using chiaroscuro) **'' Susanna'' ** Danae * Peter Paul Rubens **''An Autumn Landscape with a View of Het Steen in the Early Morning'' **''Hercules' Dog Discovers Purple Dye'' (sketch; approximate date) **'' The Judgement of Paris'' (first version; approximate date) * Anthony van Dyck - ''Charles I in Three Positions'' (1635-36) Births *March - Lancelot Volders, Flemish portrait painter (died 1723) *November - Adriaen van de Velde, Dutch animal and landscape painter (died 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Da San Giovanni
Giovanni da San Giovanni (20 March 1592 – 9 December 1636), also known as Giovanni Mannozzi, was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period, active in Florence. Biography Born in San Giovanni Valdarno, he trained under Matteo Rosselli. He is also said to have studied architectural perspective from Giulio Parigi. He traveled to Rome where he admired the fresco painted in 1614 by Guido Reni, depicting the Aurora. He was soon called back to Florence. Mannozzi started the decoration of the ''Sala degli Argenti'' in the Palazzo Pitti and planned decorations at Villa La Petraia. In 1615 he painted two ceiling canvases of ''Putti Supporting the profile of Michelangelo'' for the Casa Buonarroti and in the same period frescoed a choir of musician-angels for the dome of the church of the Ognissanti in Florence. He also painted five lunettes showing scenes from the ''Life of St Francis'' in the cloister of the Ognissanti. In 1619–1620 he directed the façade decoration of Pal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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