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1659 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1659, art Events from the year 1659 in art. Events *Frescoes at the Quirinal Palace in Rome are completed by Pietro da Cortona and his team of artists. Paintings * Peter Lely - '' A Boy as a Shepherd'' (approximate date) * Rembrandt **'' Jacob Wrestling with the Angel'' **'' Self Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar'' * Salvator Rosa - '' Allegory of Fortune'' * Adriaen van Ostade - '' The Fish Market'' * Diego Velázquez ** '' Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress'' ** '' Portrait of Prince Philip Prospero'' * Jan Vermeer - ''Officer and a Laughing Girl'' (1657–59) Births *January 21 - Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch painter of portraits and erotic, devotional and mythological scenes (died 1722) *March 4 - Pierre Lepautre, French sculptor (died 1744) * April 11 - Hendrick van Streeck, Dutch Golden Age painter of church interiors (died 1719) *July 8 - Justus van Huysum, Dutch Golden Age flower painter (died 1716) *July 18 - Hyacinthe Rigaud, French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quirinal Palace
The Quirinal Palace ( it, Palazzo del Quirinale ) is a historic building in Rome, Italy, one of the three current official residences of the president of the Italian Republic, together with Villa Rosebery in Naples and the Tenuta di Castelporziano, an estate on the outskirts of Rome, some 25 km from the centre of the city. It is located on the Quirinal Hill, the highest of the seven hills of Rome in an area colloquially called Monte Cavallo. It has served as the residence for thirty popes, four kings of Italy and twelve presidents of the Italian Republic. The Quirinal Palace was selected by Napoleon to be his residence ''par excellence'' as emperor. However, he never stayed there because of the French defeat in 1814 and the subsequent European Restoration. The palace extends for an area of 110,500 square meters and is the twelfth-largest palace in the world in terms of area, some twenty times the area of the White House. History Origins The current site of the palace has b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriaen Van Der Werff
Adriaen van der Werff (21 January 1659 – 12 November 1722) was a Dutch painter of portraits and erotic, devotional and mythological scenes. His brother, Pieter van der Werff (1661–1722), was his principal pupil and assistant. Life At the age of ten, he began to take lessons, two years later moving in with Eglon van der Neer, specializing in clothes and draperie. At the age of seventeen, he founded his own studio in Rotterdam where he later became the head of guild of Saint Luc. In 1696, he was paid a visit by Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine and his wife, Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici. The couple ordered two paintings to be sent to Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Anna Maria Luisa's father, in Florence. During the next years Van der Werff traveled regularly between Düsseldorf and his home town. In 1703, he became the official court painter and a knight, when his former teacher and predecessor Van der Neer died. Van der Werff was paid extremely well by the Elector ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its Metropolitan France, metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin (island), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyacinthe Rigaud
Jacint Rigau-Ros i Serra (; 18 July 1659 – 29 December 1743), known in French as Hyacinthe Rigaud (), was a Catalan-French baroque painter most famous for his portraits of Louis XIV and other members of the French nobility. Biography Rigaud was born in Perpignan, then part of the Crown of Aragon, a few months before Spain ceded the city to France under the Treaty of the Pyrenees (7 November 1659). His family, the ''Rigau'', were Catalan; he was the son of a tailor, the grandson of painter-gilders from Roussillon, and the elder brother of another painter ( Gaspard). Rigaud was baptised with his Catalan name in the old Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Perpignan on 20 July 1659, two days after his birth at rue de la Porte-d'Assaut. His baptismal name was ''Jyacintho Rigau or Jacint Rigau i Ros'' This is sometimes transliterated as ''Híacint Francesc Honrat Mathias Pere Martyr Andreu Joan Rigau'' After the Roussillon and the Cerdanya were ceded to France the following 7 No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
July 18
Events Pre-1600 * 477 BC – Battle of the Cremera as part of the Roman–Etruscan Wars. Veii ambushes and defeats the Roman army. * 387 BC – Roman- Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia: A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome. * 362 – Roman–Persian Wars: Emperor Julian arrives at Antioch with a Roman expeditionary force (60,000 men) and stays there for nine months to launch a campaign against the Persian Empire. * 452 – Sack of Aquileia: After an earlier defeat on the Catalaunian Plains, Attila lays siege to the metropolis of Aquileia and eventually destroys it. * 645 – Chinese forces under general Li Shiji besiege the strategic fortress city of Anshi ( Liaoning) during the Goguryeo–Tang War. *1195 – Battle of Alarcos: Almohad forces defeat the Castilian army of Alfonso VIII and force its retreat to Toledo. *1290 – King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, banishi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1716 In Art
Events from the year 1716 in art. Events * A sculpture park begins to be established in the Summer Garden at Saint Petersburg, Russia. Paintings * Sir Godfrey Kneller – Portrait of Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Princess of Wales * James Thornhill – hall ceiling at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire * Adriaen van der Werff – '' The Judgement of Paris'' (approximate date) Births * March 19 – Guillaume Coustou the Younger, painter (died 1777) * March 25 – Alexei Antropov, Russian barocco painter (died 1795) * April 5 – Jeremiah Theus, Swiss-born American painter, primarily of portraits (died 1774) * June 18 – Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (died 1809) * December 1 – Étienne Maurice Falconet, French Rococo sculptor (died 1791) * ''date unknown'' ** Fedor Leontyevich Argunov, Russian painter (died 1754) ** Yosa Buson, Japanese poet and painter from the Edo period (died 1784) ** Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty, French painter and printmaker (died 1785) ** Luis Egidio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justus Van Huysum
Justus van Huysum, also spelled Huijsum, (July 8, 1659 in Amsterdam – April 23, 1716 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography Justus Van Huysum is the son of the decorative painter Jan van Huysum the Elder, who moved to Amsterdam from Huizum (near Leeuwarden, Friesland) between 1654 and 1657, where his boys Justus and Caspar Van Huysum, an engraver in adulthood, were born. Other sources says Justus’ father was a schoolteacher. According to biographer of Dutch painters Arnold Houbraken, when Justus turned 16, his father sent him to learn painting from Nicolaes Berchem in 1675. Houbraken said he was very good at all sorts of painting, but excelled at flower painting, and founded a family business in painting flowers in vases. Another source says Justus “decorated rooms in many houses in Holland, and was assisted by his three sons.” He painted a wide variety of subjects and styles including portraits, landscapes, seascapes, and flowers, “and the versa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
July 8
Events Pre-1600 * 1099 – Some 15,000 starving Christian soldiers begin the siege of Jerusalem by marching in a religious procession around the city as its Muslim defenders watch. * 1283 – Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese fleet, defeats an Angevin fleet sent to put down a rebellion on Malta. * 1497 – Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India. * 1579 – Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, is discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan. 1601–1900 * 1663 – Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal charter to Rhode Island. * 1709 – Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava, thus effectively ending Sweden's status as a major power in Europe. * 1716 – The Battle of Dynekilen forces Sweden to abandon its invasion of Norway. *1730 – An estimated magnitude 8.7 earthquake causes a tsunami that damages more than of Chile's coa ... [...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] |
Hendrick Van Streeck
Hendrik van Streek or Hendrick van Streeck (baptized 11 April 1659 - buried 19 November 1720) was a Dutch painter and sculptor. He is known for his paintings of church interiors and still lifes.Hendrik van Streek at the Biography Hendrik was born in the Jordaan neighborhood of as the son of Grietje Cjaesdr. Klock and the painter[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 11
Events Pre-1600 * 491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. * 1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi. * 1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferrarese forces led by Gaston de Foix and Alfonso I d'Este win the Battle of Ravenna against the Papal-Spanish forces. *1544 – Italian War of 1542–46: A French army defeats Habsburg forces at the Battle of Ceresole, but fails to exploit its victory. 1601–1900 *1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain on the same day that the Scottish Parliament concurs with the English decision of 12 February. * 1713 – France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Utrecht, bringing an end to the War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War). Britain accepts Philip V as King of Spain, while Philip renounces any claim to the French throne. * 1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1744 In Art
Events from the year 1744 in art. Events * Works * Bernardo Bellotto – ''Vaprio d'Adda'' (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) * Canaletto (British Royal Collection) ** ''Entrance to the Grand Canal, looking east'' ** ''Piazza S. Marco, looking south'' ** ''Piazza S. Marco, looking west'' * Charles-Michel-Ange Challe – ''Sleeping Diana'' * Georg Desmarées – Portrait of Franz Joachim Beich * Thomas Hudson – Portrait of King George II * Jean-Étienne Liotard – '' The Chocolate Girl'' (approximate date) * Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ** ''The Banquet of Cleopatra'' ( National Gallery of Victoria) ** Ceiling paintings in Würzburg Residence ** ''Translation of the House of Loreto'' (frescos in Church of the Scalzi (Venice); destroyed 1915 (approximate completion date)) ** Decorations for Villa Cordellini (Montecchio Maggiore) * Christian Friedrich Zincke – Miniature portrait of Sir Robert Walpole in Garter robes Births * February 13 – David Allan, Scottish pain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
