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1661 In Art
Events from the year 1661 in art. Events * April 19 - Philip IV of Spain appoints Juan Bautista MartÃnez del Mazo to succeed his late father-in-law Diego Velázquez as court painter (''Pintor de cámara'') in Madrid. * October - The newly-restored King Charles II of England appoints Peter Lely as court painter. Paintings *Filippo Abbiati - ''Coriolanus Persuaded By His Family To Raise the Siege of Rome'' *Gerrit Dou - ''Old Lady with a Candle'' *Gabriël Metsu **'' Lovers at Breakfast'' **'' The Visit to the Nursery, after the birth of Sara Hinlopen (1660)'' *Reinier Nooms - '' Ships on the IJ at Amsterdam'' *''Rembrandt'' **'' St. Matthew and the Angel'' **'' Saint James The Elder'' *Jan van Kessel, senior - ''Allegory of Air'' *Jan Vermeer - ''View of Delft'' *John Michael Wright - '' Charles II in Coronation Robes'' Births *February 24 - Alexandre-François Desportes, French painter and decorative designer who specialised in animal works (died 1743) *March - Lucas de Valdà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 19
Events Pre-1600 *AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested. * 531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Raqqa (northern Syria). * 797 – Empress Irene organizes a conspiracy against her son, the Byzantine emperor Constantine VI. He is deposed and blinded. Shortly after, Constantine dies of his wounds; Irene proclaims herself ''basileus''. *1506 – The Lisbon Massacre begins, in which accused Jews are slaughtered by Portuguese Catholics. * 1529 – Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (''German:'' Fürst) and independent cities protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms. * 1539 – The Treaty of Frankfurt between Protestants and the Holy Roman Emperor is signed. 1601–1900 *1608 – In Ireland: O'Doherty's Rebellion is launched by the Burn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefano Maria Legnani
Stefano Maria Legnani also known as "Legnanino" (Milan, 6 April 1661 – Milan, 4 May 1713) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque period, active mainly in Milan.Casellato , ''LEGNANI, Stefano Maria, detto il Legnanino'' in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 64 (2005) He is considered one of the most innovative exponents of the Milanese school of painting of around the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries.''Il Legnanino, genio della pittura barocca'' 8 December 2013 at the Museo del Territorio Vimercatese ...
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April 6
Events Pre–1600 *46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) at the Battle of Thapsus. * 402 – Stilicho defeats the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia. *1320 – The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath. *1453 – Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople. The city falls on May 29, and is renamed Istanbul. * 1580 – One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place. 1601–1900 * 1652 – At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town. *1712 – The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins near Broadway. *1776 – American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat. *1782 – King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1724 In Art
Events from the year 1724 in art. Events * Swiss artist Johann Caspar Füssli goes to Vienna to study painting. * Charles-Antoine Coypel publishes his illustrations for ''Don Quixote'' in a deluxe folio in Paris.Paulson, Ronald, 1998, ''Don Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of Laughter'', Johns Hopkins University Press, , p. 45. Paintings * Canaletto ** ''Grand Canal, Looking East from the Campo San Vio'' (Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid) ** ''Grand Canal, Looking Northeast from Palazo Balbi toward the Rialto Bridge'' ** ''Piazza San Marco'' ** ''Rio dei Mendicanti'' * Jan van Huysum – ''Bouquet of Flowers in an Urn'' (''see image'') * Charles Jervas – ''Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk'' * Sebastiano Ricci ** ''Bathsheba in her Bath'' ** ''Repudiation of Agar'' ** ''Solomon adores the idols'' Births * January 16 – Per Krafft the Elder, Swedish portrait painter (died 1793) * April 14 – Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, French draftsman, printmaker, etcher and painter (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spain
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Lucas De Valdés
Lucas de Valdés Carasquilla (March 1661 – 23 February 1724) was a Spanish painter and engraver of the Baroque period, active in Seville. He was the son of Juan de Valdés Leal and Isabella Carasquilla. He was born at Seville, and at the age of eleven he engraved four plates which are to be found in ''Fiestas de Seville a la canonización de San Fernando'' and form emblematic allusions to the virtues of that Saint. He became mathematical master of the Marine College at Cádiz, but continued the exercise of the pencil and graver until his death there. He also painted pictures of Saints and portraits, several of which he engraved; among them were the portraits of Father Francisca Tamariz and of the philanthropist Manara, one of his prominent painting was the Spanish victory in the Battle of Lepanto. His son Juan was also an engraver. Works {, class="wikitable" border="0" style="background:#ffffff" class="sortable wikitable" , + align="center" style="background:#ffdead;", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1743 In Art
Events from the year 1743 in art. Events Works * Canaletto paints ''Rome: View of the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine'', ''The Molo, Looking West'', ''The Piazzetta, Looking North'' and ''Capriccio: The Horses of S. Marco in the Piazzetta'' (now in British Royal Collection) * Antonio Corradini sculpts '' The Vestal Virgin Tuccia'' * Arthur Devis probably paints '' Mr and Mrs Atherton'' * William Hogarth begins painting his '' Marriage à -la-mode'' series * Andrea Soldi paints a ''Self-portrait'' * Louis-Michel van Loo completes '' The Family of Philip V'' Births * January 3 – Joseph-Benoît Suvée, Flemish painter (died 1807) * March 5 – Jean-Simon Berthélemy, French history painter (died 1811) * March 9 – Johann Kaspar Füssli, Swiss painter (died 1786) * May 2 – William Parry, Welsh portrait painter (died 1791) * July 24 – Giocondo Albertolli, Swiss-born architect, painter, and sculptor who was active in Italy (d. 1839) * September 11 – Nikolaj Abraham Abi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre-François Desportes
Alexandre-François Desportes (24 February 1661 — 20 April 1743) was a French painter and decorative designer who specialised in animals. Desportes was born in Champigneulle, Ardennes. He studied in Paris, in the studio of the Flemish painter Nicasius Bernaerts, a pupil of Frans Snyders. During a brief sojourn in Poland, 1695–96, he painted portraits of John III Sobieski and Polish aristocrats; after the king's death Desportes returned to Paris, convinced that he should specialise in animals and flowers. He was received by the Académie de peinture et de sculpture in 1699, with the ''Self-Portrait in Hunting Dress'' now in the Musée du Louvre. In 1712–13 he spent six months in England. He received many commissions for decorative panels for the royal châteaux: Versailles, Marly, Meudon, Compiègne and, his last royal commission, for Louis XV at Choisy, 1742. He also did decorative paintings for the duc de Bourbon at Chantilly. Both Louis XIV and Louis XV commissioned p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
February 24
Events Pre-1600 * 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica. * 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence. * 1386 – King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda. * 1525 – A Spanish-Austrian army defeats a French army at the Battle of Pavia. * 1527 – Coronation of Ferdinand I as the king of Bohemia in Prague. * 1538 – Treaty of Nagyvárad between Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I and King John Zápolya of Hungary and Croatia. * 1582 – With the papal bull ''Inter gravissimas'', Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar. * 1597 – The last battle of the Cudgel War was fought on the Santavuori Hill in Ilmajoki, Ostrobothnia. 1601–1900 * 1607 – ''L'Orfeo'' by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance. *1711 – ''Rinald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Michael Wright
John Michael Wright (May 1617 – July 1694) was an English or Scottish (he signed as both at times) portrait painter in the Baroque style. Wright trained in Edinburgh under the Scotland, Scots painter George Jamesone, and acquired a considerable reputation as an artist and scholar during a long sojourn in Rome. There he was admitted to the Accademia di San Luca and was associated with some of the leading artists of his generation. He was engaged by Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, the governor of the Spanish Netherlands, to acquire artworks in Oliver Cromwell's England in 1655. He took up permanent residence in England from 1656 and served as court painter before and after the English Restoration. A convert to Roman Catholicism, he was a favourite of the restored House of Stuart, Stuart court, a client of both Charles II of England, Charles II and James II of England, James II, and was a witness to many of the political manoeuvrings of the era. In the final years of the St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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