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1647 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1647, art Events from the year 1647 in art. Events *Gianlorenzo Bernini begins work on his ''Memorial to Maria Raggi''. Works Paintings *Guercino – **''Persian Sibyl'' **'' Christ Crowned with Thorns'' *Peter Lely – Portraits of: **James, Duke of York, Princess Elizabeth and Henry, Duke of Gloucester **Edward Massie * Jan van Goyen – ''Landscape with Dunes'' *Paulus Potter – '' The Bull'' Other *Francesco Grue - Altarpiece at the church of San Donato, Castelli, Abruzzo Births *April 18 - Elias Brenner, Swedish painter and archeologist (died 1717) *November - Jan van Huchtenburg, Dutch painter (died 1733) *''date unknown'' **Jan Baptist Brueghel, Flemish Baroque flower painter (died 1719) ** Andrea López Caballero, Spanish painter (died ''unknown'') ** Angelo Everardi, Italian painter of battle scenes (died 1680) **Jan Jiří Heinsch, Czech-German painter of the Baroque style (died 1712) ** Philippe Magnier, French sculptor (died 1715) ** Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianlorenzo Bernini
Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (, , ; Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 159828 November 1680) was an Italian sculptor and architect. While a major figure in the world of architecture, he was more prominently the leading sculptor of his age, credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture. As one scholar has commented, "What Shakespeare is to drama, Bernini may be to sculpture: the first pan-European sculptor whose name is instantaneously identifiable with a particular manner and vision, and whose influence was inordinately powerful ..." In addition, he was a painter (mostly small canvases in oil) and a man of the theater: he wrote, directed and acted in plays (mostly Carnival satires), for which he designed stage sets and theatrical machinery. He produced designs as well for a wide variety of decorative art objects including lamps, tables, mirrors, and even coaches. As an architect and city planner, he designed secular buildings, churches, chapels, and publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 18
Events Pre-1600 * 796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The ''patrician'' Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days. * 1428 – Peace of Ferrara between Republic of Venice, Duchy of Milan, Republic of Florence and House of Gonzaga: ending of the second campaign of the Wars in Lombardy fought until the Treaty of Lodi in 1454, which will then guarantee the conditions for the development of the Italian Renaissance. *1506 – The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid. * 1518 – Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland. * 1521 – Trial of Martin Luther begins its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. He refuses to recant his teachings despite the risk of excommunication. 1601–1900 * 1689 – Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros. * 1738 – '' Real Academia de la Historia'' ("Royal Academy of History" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Magnier
Philippe Magnier was a French sculptor (1647–1715) in the service of the Sun King's court painter Charles Le Brun. Life He was born in Paris to Laurent Magnier. He worked for Le Brun at a time when many works of art were required for the new, enormous Versailles castle complex. He died in Paris. Works *''Les Lutteurs'' ('the Wrestlers'), a 1684–1685 copy of the classical Uffizi wrestlers, made for Versailles park (now in the Louvre museum) *''L'Aurore'' 'Dawn' (Louvre) *''Saint Jude'' (Louvre) *''Nymphe'' (park of Versailles castle) *''L'aurore'' (park of Versailles) *''Le Printemps'' 'Spring' (park of Versailles) *''Ulysse'' 'Ulysses' (park of Versailles) References External links * 1647 births 1715 deaths 17th-century French sculptors French male sculptors 18th-century French sculptors Sculptors from Paris 18th-century French male artists {{France-sculptor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1712 In Art
Events from the year 1712 in art. Events * August 15 – The new abbey church at Fulda, with its high altar designed by Johann Neudecker and the stuccoist Giovanni Battista Artari, is dedicated by Prince-Abbot Adalbert von Schleifras. * Charles-André van Loo travels to Rome to study under Benedetto Luti and Pierre Legros. * Lorenzo Mattielli settles in Vienna. Paintings * Rosalba Carriera – '' Bacchante with a tambourine'' * Giuseppe Maria Crespi – '' The Seven Sacraments'' series * Ádám Mányoki – Portrait of Francis II Rákóczi * Paolo de Matteis – ''The Choice of Hercules'' (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) * Adriaen van der Werff – '' The Judgement of Paris'' Births * February 19 – Arthur Devis, English portrait painter, particularly known for his conversation pieces and other such small portraits (died 1787) * October 5 – Francesco Guardi, Venetian painter of veduta (died 1793) * October 30 – Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, German painter (died 1774) * Dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Jiří Heinsch
Jan Jiří Heinsch or Heintsch (german: Johann Georg Heinsch; c. 1647 – September 9, 1712) was a Czech-German Baroque style artist. Heinsch primarily painted religious-themed works (including altarpieces) as well as portraits of monastic superiors – especially for various Catholic religious orders such as the Jesuits, Knights of the Cross with the Red Star or Augustinians. He is known to have produced around 150 paintings and, in addition, extensive graphic work. Life Heinsch was born in 1647 in Kłodzko (Glatz), the capital of the County of Kladsko The County of Kladsko ( cs, Kladské hrabství, german: Grafschaft Glatz, pl, Hrabstwo kłodzkie) was a historical administrative unit within Bohemia as a part of the Kingdom of Bohemia and later in the Kingdom of Prussia with its capital at Kł ... (then part of Bohemia proper, now in Silesia, southern Poland), to a Protestant family. He lived there until at least 1678, when he moved to Prague. – brief biography in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1680 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1680, art Events from the year 1680 in art. Events *Following the death of Sir Peter Lely, Godfrey Kneller is appointed Principal Painter to the Crown by King Charles II of England. Paintings *Pedro Nuñez de Villavicencio - ''Fallen Apple Basket'' (Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest)) *Godfrey Kneller - ''Black Page Boy'' (Charlecote Park, England) *Gerard ter Borch - '' Young Man Reading a Book'' (approximate date) Births *January 3 - Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German painter and stucco plasterer (died 1758) * March 23 - Juan Ramírez Mejandre, Spanish Baroque sculptor (died 1739) *''date unknown'' ** Juan Antonio García de Bouzas, Spanish painter of the Baroque period (died 1755) **Francisco Bustamante, Spanish painter (died 1737) ** Leonardo Coccorante, Italian painter especially of large, highly detailed landscapes with imaginary classical architectural ruins (died 1750) **Lorenzo De Ferrari, Italian painter (died 1744) **Giuseppe Gambarini, Italian painte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelo Everardi
Angelo Everardi (5 August 1647 – 1678)Maria Adelaide Baroncelli, ''Jan de Herdt e le origini del Fiammenghino'', Saggi e Memorie di storia dell'arte Saggi e Memorie di storia dell'arte Vol. 4 (1965), pp. 7, 9-24, 133-141 (26 pages) was a painter and printmaker active in Brescia in the second half of the 17th century. No paintings have been attributed to him with certainty. He is reported to have been a painter of battle scenes, Bambocciate, i.e. low life genre scenes as well as of history paintings.EVERARDI Angelo Enciclopedia Bresciana Life Angelo Everardi was born in as the son of a Giovanni (Joan) from |
Andrea López Caballero
Andrea López Caballero (born 1647) was a Spanish painter. He was born in Naples, but studied in Madrid under José Antolínez José Claudio Antolinez (1635 – 30 May 1675) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period. Career and personality Antolinez was born and died in Madrid. He received his early training at the studio of Francisco Rizi. His "haughty charac .... He devoted himself chiefly to portrait painting, though in Madrid is a picture of ''Christ with Virgin Mother and Mary Magdalen''. References * 1647 births Year of death missing 17th-century Spanish painters Spanish male painters Painters from Naples Spanish Baroque painters {{Spain-painter-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1719 In Art
Events from the year 1719 in art. Events * Jean-Baptiste Oudry becomes a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. Works * Davies brothers of Wrexham – Chirk Castle gates (wrought iron) * Antoine Watteau – ''Pierrot'' Births * February 6 – Alberto Pullicino, Maltese painter (died 1759) * February 27 – Alejandro González Velázquez, Spanish late-Baroque architect and painter (died 1772) * May 29 – Lorenzo De Caro, Neapolitan painter (died 1777) * August 25 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (died 1795) * September 16 – Étienne Ficquet, French engraver (died 1794) * October 13 – Josef Ignaz Mildorfer, Austrian painter (died 1775) * ''date unknown'' ** Dominic Serres, French-born painter of naval maritime scenes (died 1793) ** Angelica Le Gru Perotti, Italian painter of the Rococo (died 1776) ** Liu Yong, Chinese politician and calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty (died 1804) Deaths * May 3 – Pierre Le Gros the Younger, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Baptist Brueghel
Jan Baptist Brueghel (baptised 26 December 1647 – 1719) was a Flemish Baroque flower painter. Biography Brueghel was born in Antwerp. He travelled to Rome where he joined the Bentvueghels, an association of mainly Dutch and Flemish artists working in Rome. It was customary for the Bentvueghels to adopt an appealing nickname, the so-called 'bent name'. Jan Baptist Brueghel was given the bent name "Meleager". The early Dutch biographer Houbraken mentioned Brueghel in a poem about the Bentvueghels at the end of his second volume on artists.Jan Baptist Brueghel Biography in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the |
1733 In Art
Events from the year 1733 in art. Events * March – William Hogarth sketches Sarah Malcolm, convicted of murder, in her condemned cell in London; from this he immediately publishes an engraving and makes a painting. Works * William Hoare of Bath – Portrait of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo * Sebastiano Ricci ** ''Baldassarre'' and ''Ester before Ahasuerus'' (Quirinal Palace, Rome) ** ''Pope Gregory the Great intercedes for souls in Purgatory'' (St-Gervais-et-St-Protais, Paris) ** ''Pope Pius V, Saints Thomas Acquinus and Peter Martyr'' (Gesuati, Venice) ** ''Saint Francisco resuscitates the child Paola'' (San Rocco, Venice) ** ''Saint Helen discovers the True Cross'' (San Rocco, Venice) Births * January 8 – Anton von Maron, Austrian painter active in Rome (died 1808) * January 18 – Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, Swiss watercolour painter (died 1794) * March 13 – Johann Zoffany, German neoclassical painter (died 1810) * March 23 – Josiah Spode, English potter (died 1797) * May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netherlands
) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherlands , established_title2 = Act of Abjuration , established_date2 = 26 July 1581 , established_title3 = Peace of Münster , established_date3 = 30 January 1648 , established_title4 = Kingdom established , established_date4 = 16 March 1815 , established_title5 = Liberation Day (Netherlands), Liberation Day , established_date5 = 5 May 1945 , established_title6 = Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Kingdom Charter , established_date6 = 15 December 1954 , established_title7 = Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles, Caribbean reorganisation , established_date7 = 10 October 2010 , official_languages = Dutch language, Dutch , languages_type = Regional languages , languages_sub = yes , languages = , languages2_type = Reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
