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1670 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1670, art Events from the year 1670 in art. Events *An inventory of the art collection of Principe Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna lists works by Pietro Paolo Bonzi and many others. *Gerard Reynst publishes ''Signorum Veterum Icones'', a series of prints by Gerard de Lairesse based on the Italian statuary in Reynst's Amsterdam collection. Paintings *Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde – '' The Old Exchange of Amsterdam'' (approximate date) * Jan de Bray – '' David Playing the Harp'' *Isaac Fuller – Self-portrait' (approximate date) *Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts – '' Trompe-l'œil: The Reverse of a Framed Painting'' (approximate date) *Jacob Ochtervelt – '' Musical Company in an Interior'' (approximate date) * Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael – ''The windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede'' (approximate date) * Jan Vermeer – ''The Lacemaker'' Births * January 26 – Jacob van Schuppen, Austrian painter (died 1751) *April 23 – Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna
Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna (1637–1689) was an Italian nobleman of the Colonna family. He was the 8th Duke and Prince of Paliano and hereditary Grand Constable of the Kingdom of Naples. He was also a Knight of the Golden Fleece. Biography Colonna was born in Rome, the son of Marcantonio V Colonna, Prince of Paliano and Isabella Gioeni Cardona, Princess of Castiglione. He was the nephew of Anna Colonna who married Taddeo Barberini, Prince of Palestrina. He was inducted into the ''Order of the Golden Fleece'' in the same year as his cousin, Maffeo Barberini. In 1661 he married Maria Mancini, a niece of Cardinal Mazarin. She was the first love of Louis XIV whose desire to marry her caused his mother, Anne of Austria, and Maria's uncle intense concern. The relationship between Maria and Louis was an idealistic one, and remained unconsummated. Colonna remarked after their wedding night that he was surprised to find her still a virgin, famously stating that had not expected to find ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 26
Events Pre-1600 * 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph. *1531 – The 6.4–7.1 1531 Lisbon earthquake, Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people. *1564 – The Council of Trent establishes an official distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. *1564 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula during the Livonian War. 1601–1900 *1699 – For the first time, the Ottoman Empire permanently Treaty of Karlowitz, cedes territory to the Christian powers. *1700 – The 8.7–9.2 1700 Cascadia earthquake, Cascadia earthquake takes place off the west coast of North America, as evidenced by Japanese records. *1788 – The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson, Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on Australia. Commemorated as Australia Day. *1808 & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1715 In Art
Events from the year 1715 in art. Events * Paintings * Thomas Gibson – Portrait of George Vertue * Sir Godfrey Kneller – Portraits of ** John Erskine, Earl of Mar ** Frances Erskine Countess of Mar ** Lady Anne, Countess of Sunderland and her daughter Diana ** Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury * Rachel Ruysch – '' Bouquet of Flowers'' (Alte Pinakothek, Munich) Births * February 22 – Charles-Nicolas Cochin, French engraver, designer, writer, and art critic (died 1790) * July 4 – Charles Francois Hutin, French history and figure painter, engraver and sculptor (died 1776) * July 11 – Jean-Joseph Balechou, French engraver (died 1765) * August 25 – Luis González Velázquez, Spanish late-Baroque painter (died 1763) * November 5 – Johann Georg Wille, German copper engraver (died 1808) * November 30 – Johan Jacob Bruun, Danish gouache painter most known for his topographic prospects (died 1789) * December 11 – Johann Valentin Tischbein, German theatre painter (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Boitard
François Boitard (1670 – c.1715) was a French Baroque artist. Biography Boitard was born in Toulouse. According to Houbraken he was a pupil of Raymond Lafage who later followed his style of making drawings and prints. He was able to attract a crowd in a tavern with his ingenious method of drawing a complicated version of the ''Pharaoh entering the Red Sea'' in two hours, from what appeared to be random scratches on a piece of paper. He copied this trick from Lafage, and Houbraken witnessed it himself in a tavern in London in 1709. According to the RKD he lived in Rome during the 1680s and is registered in London in 1709.François Boitard in the He drew many book illustrations and was the teacher of [...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] |
Louis Audran
Louis Audran, the fourth and youngest son of Germain Audran, was born at Lyon in 1670, and instructed in engraving by his uncle Gérard. He did not execute many plates, but assisted his brothers in forwarding theirs. He died at Paris about 1712. He engraved some copies of the large plates executed by his relatives. There is a set of seven middle-sized plates by him of the 'Seven Acts of Mercy,' after Bourdon. He also engraved after the works of Le Brun, Poussin Nicolas Poussin (, , ; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a ..., and other French painters. References * 1670 births 1710s deaths Engravers from Lyon 17th-century French engravers 18th-century French engravers {{France-artist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1761 In Art
Events from the year 1761 in art. Events * May 9 – Society of Artists of Great Britain exhibition opens in London. Exhibitors include Gainsborough, Hogarth and Nollekens, and Stubbs shows a painting for the first time (''A Stallion Called Romulus''). * Scottish-born artist Allan Ramsay appointed to succeed John Shackelton as Principal Painter in Ordinary to George III of Great Britain. Works * François-Hubert Drouais – ''The children of the comte de Bethune playing the guitar'' * Thomas Gainsborough – Portrait of Susannah "Suky" Trevelyan * William Hogarth – '' The Five Orders of Perriwigs as they were Worn at the Late Coronation Measured Architectonically'' (satirical engraving) * Anton Raphael Mengs ** ''Parnassus'' (ceiling fresco for Villa Albani, Rome) ** Portrait of Charles III of Spain * Joshua Reynolds ** '' David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy'' ** Georgiana, Countess Spencer, and Her Daughter' ** ''The Ladies Amabel and Mary Jemima Yorke'' (probable date ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Galloche
Louis Galloche (24 August 1670 – 21 July 1761) was a French painter. A student of Louis de Boullogne, his own students included François Lemoyne, Charles-Joseph Natoire and François Boucher. Life He was born in Paris, the son of Charles Galloche and Jeanne Martinet. He studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. Originally destined for the church, he soon found he had no vocation and began the study of philosophy. Bibliography * François Marandet, "Louis Galloche et Fançois Lemoyne: caractères distinctifs et œuvres inédites", ''La Revue des Musée de France. Revue du Louvre'', 2-2007, p. 29-36. Sources * Louis Gougenot, ''Mémoires inédits sur les membres de l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture'', Paris, J.-B. Dumoulin, 1854, p. 289-302. {{DEFAULTSORT:Galloche, Louis 1670 births 1761 deaths 17th-century French painters French male painters 18th-century French painters 18th-century French male artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August 24
Events Pre-1600 * 367 – Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus at the age of eight by his father. * 394 – The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, is written. * 410 – The Visigoths under king Alaric I begin to pillage Rome. *1185 – Sack of Thessalonica by the Normans. * 1200 – King John of England, signer of the first Magna Carta, marries Isabella of Angoulême in Angoulême Cathedral. *1215 – Pope Innocent III issues a bull declaring Magna Carta invalid. *1349 – Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague. *1482 – The town and castle of Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured from Scotland by an English army. *1516 – The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Syria at the Battle of Marj Dabiq. *1561 – Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony. 1601–1900 *1608 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1735 In Art
Events from the year 1735 in art. Events * The Chandos Mausoleum is constructed for James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos. * Charles-Joseph Natoire carries out the first of his tapestry cartoons for the series ''History of Don Quixote''. * Guillaume Coustou the Younger is awarded the Prix de Rome.François Souchal, ''Les frères Coustou'' (Paris) 1980. * The ballad opera called ''Flora, or Hob in the Well'' went down in recorded history as the first opera of any kind to be produced in North America. (Feb 18, 1735 in Charleston, S.C.) Paintings * Jacopo Amigoni ** '' Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach'' ** ''Frederick, Prince of Wales'' * Canaletto ** ''The Bucintoro Returning to the Molo'' (1730–1735) (Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, England) ** ''The Molo, Venice'' (approximate date) (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas) ** ''A Regatta on the Grand Canal'' (1730–1735) (Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, England) ** ''Venice: A Regatta on the Grand Canal'' (National Galle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess Of Chandos
Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos (23 April 1670 – 16 July 1735) was an English historian, travel writer and artist. She spent more than a quarter-century overseeing the restoration of the gardens and rebuilding of the family mansion at Wollaton Hall, now in Nottingham. Biography She was the daughter of Francis Willoughby of Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, a Fellow of the Royal Society and writer on natural history, and his wife Emma, the daughter of Sir Henry Barnard of Bridgnorth, Shropshire and London. When her 19-year-old brother Francis disagreed with his stepfather's handling of his finances, Cassandra accompanied him in 1687 to the Willoughby family's earlier seat, Wollaton Hall in Nottinghamshire: "This proposall f her brother'sI was much delighted with, thinking it would be no small pleasure for me to be Mrs of Wollaton, and to doe whatever I had a mind to." She then oversaw restoration of the gardens and rebuilding of the house over a quarter of a century. In 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 23
Events Pre-1600 * 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene. * 599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico, defeating queen Yohl Ik'nal and sacking the city. *711 – Dagobert III succeeds his father King Childebert III as King of the Franks. * 1014 – Battle of Clontarf: High King of Ireland Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle. * 1016 – Edmund Ironside succeeds his father Æthelred the Unready as King of England. * 1343 – St. George's Night Uprising commences in the Duchy of Estonia. * 1348 – The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St. George's Day. *1500 – Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvarez Cabral reaches new coastline (Brazil). *1516 – The Munich ''Reinheitsgebot'' (regarding the ingredients of beer) takes effect in all of Bavaria. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
