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1673 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1673, art Events from the year 1673 in art. Events *Engraver Michael Vandergucht joins the Guild of St Luke at Antwerp. Paintings * John Greenhill – Portrait of Seth Ward (bishop of Salisbury) * Charles Le Brun – '' Alexander and Porus'' * Jan van Huchtenburg - '' Battle of Chocim'' Births *January 28 - Georg Gsell, Swiss painter (died 1740) *April - Maria Moninckx, Dutch botanical artist and painter (died 1757) * April 28 - Claude Gillot, French painter, engraver, book illustrator, metal worker, and theatrical designer (died 1722) * June 11 – Bernard Picart, French engraver (died 1733) *''date unknown'' ** Thomas Germain, silversmith (died 1748) **Ádám Mányoki, Hungarian painter (died 1757) **Giovanni Battista Lama, Italian painter, active mainly in Naples (died 1748) **Giuseppe Melani, Italian painter, active mainly in Pisa (died 1747) ** Pietro Paltronieri, Italian painter of quadratura (died 1741) *''probable'' – Andrea dell'Asta, Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Vandergucht
Michael Vandergucht or Michiel van der Gucht (c. 1660 – 16 October 1725) was a Flemish engraver and painter who worked for most of his career in England.Shearer West, ''Vandergucht family (Gucht, van der)'' at Grove Art Online, accessed 20 March 2022 He engraved portraits, book illustrations, and architectural prints and painted portraits.''Michael Vandergucht (1660-1725), Engraver'', at the National Portrait Gallery /ref> Life Vandergucht was born in Antwerp, where he became a pupi ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June 11
Events Pre-1600 * 173 – Marcomannic Wars: The Roman army in Moravia is encircled by the Quadi, who have broken the peace treaty (171). In a violent thunderstorm emperor Marcus Aurelius defeats and subdues them in the so-called "miracle of the rain". * 631 – Emperor Taizong of Tang sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk in order to seek the release of Chinese prisoners captured during the transition from Sui to Tang. * 786 – A Hasanid Alid uprising in Mecca is crushed by the Abbasids at the Battle of Fakhkh. * 980 – Vladimir the Great consolidates the Kievan realm from Ukraine to the Baltic Sea. He is proclaimed ruler ('' knyaz'') of all Kievan Rus'. *1011 – Lombard Revolt: Greek citizens of Bari rise up against the Lombard rebels led by Melus and deliver the city to Basil Mesardonites, Byzantine governor ('' catepan'') of the Catepanate of Italy. *1118 – Roger of Salerno, Prince of Antioch, captures Azaz from the Seljuk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1747 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1747, art Events from the year 1747 in art. Events * August – Jean-Bernard, abbé Le Blanc, writes an influential letter on the subject of the Paris Salon. * Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo joins the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. Later in the year he marries Marie-Marguerite Lebrun. Works * Francis Bindon – Portrait of Richard Baldwin, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin * Canaletto – London seen through an arch of Westminster Bridge' (c. 1746–47) * Thomas Gainsborough – ''Wooded Landscape with a Peasant Resting'' (Tate Britain) * Matthäus Günther – Frescos in Amorbach Abbey (1742–47) * Charles-Joseph Natoire ** Portrait of Louis, Dauphin of France ** ''Saint Stephen and the False Witnesses'' (for Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés) ** ''Triumph of Bacchus'' (Musée du Louvre) * Gervase Spencer – Portrait miniatures Awards * Births * January 4 – Dominique Vivant, French artist, writer, diplomat, author and archaeologist (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pisa
Pisa ( , or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower, the city contains more than twenty other historic churches, several medieval palaces, and bridges across the Arno. Much of the city's architecture was financed from its history as one of the Italian maritime republics. The city is also home to the University of Pisa, which has a history going back to the 12th century, the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, founded by Napoleon in 1810, and its offshoot, the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies.Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa Information statistics History ...
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Giuseppe Melani
Giuseppe Melani or Milani (13 August 1673 - 7 November 1747) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Pisa. Biography His father, Pietro Milani, was a painter. He initially apprenticed with Camillo Gabrielli, a pupil of Ciro Ferri. For the Pisa Pisa ( , or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower, the cit ... Cathedral, he painted a ''Death of San Ranieri''. He also painted figures for architectural frescoes, such as the vault of San Matteo (c. 1720) in Pisa, along with his brother Francesco Melani (also an architect, April 7, 1675 -August 21, 1742). Among the pupils of Melani were Tommaso Tommasi, Giuseppe Bracci, Jacopo Donati, Bartolommeo Santini, and Ranieri Gabbrielli.Fabroni, page 380. References * * External links 1673 births 1747 deaths People from P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022. Its province-level municipality is the third-most populous metropolitan city in Italy with a population of 3,115,320 residents, and its metropolitan area stretches beyond the boundaries of the city wall for approximately 20 miles. Founded by Greeks in the first millennium BC, Naples is one of the oldest continuously inhabited urban areas in the world. In the eighth century BC, a colony known as Parthenope ( grc, Παρθενόπη) was established on the Pizzofalcone hill. In the sixth century BC, it was refounded as Neápolis. The city was an important part of Magna Graecia, played a major role in the merging of Greek and Roman society, and was a significant cultural centre under the Romans. Naples served a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Battista Lama
'' Lot and his daughters'' Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Agen Giovanni Battista Lama (1673–1748) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Naples. He primarily painted historical canvases. Along with Paolo de Matteis, he was pupil to the painter Luca Giordano. In turn, the painter Antonio Capulongo Antonio Capulongo (c. 1580) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period. He was born and active in Naples. He was the pupil of Giovanni Bernardo della Loma. He painted the principal altar-piece for the church of San Diego all'Ospedalett ... was his pupil. References * 1673 births 1748 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Painters from Naples Italian Baroque painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungarian People
Hungarians, also known as Magyars ( ; hu, magyarok ), are a nation and ethnic group native to Hungary () and Kingdom of Hungary, historical Hungarian lands who share a common Hungarian culture, culture, Hungarian history, history, Magyar tribes, ancestry, and Hungarian language, language. The Hungarian language belongs to the Uralic languages, Uralic language family. There are an estimated 15 million ethnic Hungarians and their descendants worldwide, of whom 9.6 million live in today's Hungary. About 2–3 million Hungarians live in areas that were part of the Kingdom of Hungary before the Treaty of Trianon in 1920 and are now parts of Hungary's seven neighbouring countries, Hungarians in Slovakia, Slovakia, Hungarians in Ukraine, Ukraine, Hungarians in Romania, Romania, Hungarians in Serbia, Serbia, Hungarians of Croatia, Croatia, Prekmurje, Slovenia, and Hungarians in Austria, Austria. Hungarian diaspora, Significant groups of people with Hungarian ancestry live in various oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ádám Mányoki
Ádám Mányoki (1673, Szokolya – 6 August 1757, Dresden) was a Hungarian Baroque portrait painter. Biography He was the son of a Reformed pastor. The family was very poor, so he was apparently given into the care of a German staff officer named Dölfer, who promised to provide him with an education. by Lajos Ernszt @ Művészet (1911) He first went to , then on to for further schooling. After that, he studied with in |
1748 In Art
Events from the year 1748 in art. Events * The Paris ''Salon'' first introduces a jury. * Patience Lovell, the first recognized American-born sculptor, marries Joseph Wright. Works * Canaletto – ''The South Façade of Warwick Castle'' (Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid) * Maurice Quentin de La Tour – ''Marie Leszczyńska, Queen of France and Nazarre'' (pastels) * Robert Feke – ''Portrait of William Bowdoin'' * Thomas Gainsborough – '' Landscape in Suffolk'' * William Hogarth – ''The Gate of Calais'', or ''O, the Roast Beef of Old England'' Awards * Prix de Rome (for sculpture) – Augustin Pajou Births * May 22 – Thomas Roberts, Irish Landscape artist (died 1778) * June 22 – John Carter, English draughtsman and architect (died 1817) * August 30, Jacques-Louis David, French painter (died 1825) * September 26 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German painter and grandson of the composer (died 1778) * October 9 – Jacob Adam, Austrian copper etcher (died 1811) * Octobe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Germain
Thomas Germain (1673–1748) was the pre-eminent Parisian silversmith of the Rococo. The son of a Paris silversmith Pierre Germain (none of whose work survives) he did not at first train in the family workshop, but began as a painter, spending the years 1687–1702 in Rome, where he turned his hand towards goldsmith's work. Once again in Paris he received the status of ''maître''(master) in 1720 and was appointed an ''orfèvre du Roi''(or, per a literal translation, the title of the "King's Goldsmith"). Much of his output was to royal commissions, including a number of presentation swords given to the likes of Marshal Foch and Alain Porée, Captain of the Corsairs. His most spectacular surviving piece, a '' surtout de table'' on a hunting theme, with dogs and horns and putti, was begun in the years 1729–31 for the tax-farmer Samuel-Jacques Bernard but remained unsold at the time of Germain's death, when it was sold in 1757 to the duke of Aveiro, who took it to Portugal; it is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
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