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1676 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1676, art Events from the year 1676 in art. Events * December 10 - Giuseppe Ghezzi exhibits a number of privately owned works by Venetian masters, borrowed from their owners, in the cloisters of San Salvatore in Rome. * The portraitist Godfrey Kneller, together with his brother Johann Zacharias, moves from Germany to London, where he settles. Works * Claude Lorrain - ''Aeneas taking leave of Dido in Carthage'' * Grinling Gibbons - Statue of King Charles II in Roman costume (gilded bronze) * Simon Ushakov - '' Theodore Stratelates'' Births *February 2 - Francesco Maria Raineri, Italian sculptor of battle scenes, landscapes, and veduta with historical or mythologic figures (died 1758) * April 24 - Johann Georg Beck, German engraver (died 1722) *June 5 - Marco Ricci, Italian veduta painter (died 1729) *''date unknown'' **Pierre-Jacques Cazes, French historical painter (died 1754) **Sarah Hoadly, English portrait painter (died 1743) **Théobald Michau (or Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
December 10
Events Pre-1600 *1317 – The "Nyköping Banquet": King Birger of Sweden treacherously seizes his two brothers Valdemar, Duke of Finland and Eric, Duke of Södermanland, who were subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköping Castle. * 1508 – The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice. *1520 – Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull ''Exsurge Domine'' outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate. * 1541 – Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII. 1601–1900 * 1652 – Defeat at the Battle of Dungeness causes the Commonwealth of England to reform its navy. *1665 – The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter. *1684 – Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 24
Events Pre-1600 * 1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty). * 1183 BC – Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy marking the end of the legendary Trojan War, given by chief librarian of the Library of Alexandria Eratosthenes, among others. * 1547 – Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League. * 1558 – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris. 1601–1900 * 1704 – The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, ''The Boston News-Letter'', is published. * 1793 – French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is acquitted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of charges brought by the Girondin in Paris. * 1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korea
Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republic of Korea) comprising its southern half. Korea consists of the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, and several minor islands near the peninsula. The peninsula is bordered by China to the northwest and Russia to the northeast. It is separated from Japan to the east by the Korea Strait and the Sea of Japan (East Sea). During the first half of the 1st millennium, Korea was divided between three states, Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla, together known as the Three Kingdoms of Korea. In the second half of the 1st millennium, Silla defeated and conquered Baekje and Goguryeo, leading to the "Unified Silla" period. Meanwhile, Balhae formed in the north, superseding former Goguryeo. Unified Silla eventually collapsed into three separate states due to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeong Seon
Jeong Seon ( ko, 정선) (1676 – 20 April 1759) was a Korean landscape painter, also known by the pen name Kyomjae. His ''cha'' was Wonbaek and another ''ho'' was Nangok. His works include ink and oriental water paintings, such as ''Inwangjesaekdo'' (1751), ''Geumgang jeondo'' (1734), and ''Ingokjeongsa'' (1742), as well as numerous "true-view" landscape paintings on the subject of Korea and the history of its culture. He is counted among the most famous Korean painters. The landscape paintings that he produced reflect most of the geographical features of Korea. His style is realistic rather than abstract. Biography Jeong was born on 16 February 1676, in the Jongno District of Seoul, in the Cheongun-dong neighborhood. He was the eldest son of Jeong Si-ik (1638–1689), the descendant of an illustrious and gentry family that originally came from Kwangju. Soon in infancy, he was noted for his artistic talents and is said to have painted daily, with a prolific output until old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1765 In Art
Events from the year 1765 in art. Events * June 12 – The death of General John Guise in London activates his 1760 bequest of a large collection of Old Master paintings to his ''alma mater'', Christ Church, Oxford, where they are assembled in 1767 as the foundation of Christ Church Picture Gallery. * September 23 - G. Van Oostrum's collection of paintings is sold at auction in The Hague. '' Smiling Girl, a Courtesan, Holding an Obscene Image'' is lot 241. * The Uffizi in Florence is officially opened to the public as an art gallery. * Irish sculptor Christopher Hewetson and American painter Henry Benbridge arrive in Rome, where Hewetson settles. * The Hermitage Museum acquires the art collection of Heinrich von Brühl, including ''Perseus and Andromeda'' by Rubens. Works *Francis Cotes – ''Portrait of Maria Walpole, Countess Waldegrave'' *Nathaniel Dance – William Weddell, The Reverend William Palgrave and Mr Janson in Rome' *Jean-Honoré Fragonard – '' The High Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théobald Michau
Théobald Michau (1676–1765) was a conservative Walloon painter of landscapes, more famous in his own time than he is today. Michau was born in Tournai and was a pupil of Lucas Achtschellinck. Subjects of the country festivals ('' Kermesse'') that were popularized by David Teniers, father and son to the extent that paintings and tapestries showing such rustic themes were called ''Ténières''. Michau painted designs and perhaps provided full-scale cartoons for tapestry weavers, for surviving records of the Brussels tapestry workshop of Pieter van der Borcht record ''Teniers peints par le fameux Sr Michau'', such Teniers-like subjects painted by "the famous Sieur Michau". Among his work, on wooden or copper panels, in public collections are the ''Summer'' and ''Winter'' landscapes in Vienna. Also he was a teacher and died in Antwerp. Among his pupils was Martin J. Geeraerts, who specialised in painted bas-relief Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpt ... [...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] |
Sarah Hoadly
Sarah Curtis (1676–1743), wife of Benjamin Hoadly, was a British portrait painter. Life Sarah Curtis was born in 1676 and before her marriage she gained a reputation as a portrait painter. She was a pupil of Mary Beale, and among her sitters were William Whiston, Gilbert Burnet, and her husband. Her portrait of Burnet was engraved by William Faithorne the Younger. The picture of her husband, which was, 'as is believed, touched up by Hogarth’, is in the National Portrait Gallery. Curtis married one of her sitters, Benjamin Hoadly, her second husband, at St. James's, Piccadilly, on 30 May 1701. ''Enlightenment prelate: Benjamin Hoadly, 1676-1761'' William Gibson, pp. 53, 251, James Clark, 2004. By her the bishop had five ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1754 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1754, art Events from the year 1754 in art. Events * Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce founded in England by William Shipley. * Joshua Kirby publishes the pamphlet ''Dr. Brook Taylor's Method of Perspective made Easy both in Theory and Practice'' in London, containing William Hogarth's ''Satire on False Perspective''. Paintings * Canaletto ** ''English Landscape Capriccio with a Column'' (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.) ** ''English Landscape Capriccio with a Palace'' (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.) ** ''Eton College'' (National Gallery, London) ** ''London: Interior of the Rotunda at Ranelagh'' (National Gallery, London) ** '' Old Walton Bridge'' ( Dulwich Picture Gallery, London) ** ''St. Paul's Cathedral'' ( Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut) * John Giles Eccardt – ''Horace Walpole'' * William Hogarth – '' Humours of an Election'' (four paintings) Births * February 5 – Gilles-L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre-Jacques Cazes
Pierre-Jacques Cazes (1676 – 25 June 1754) was a French painter who specialized in religious and mythological subjects. He also taught several other French artists including François Boucher and Jean-Siméon Chardin. Biography Cazes was born in Paris in 1676 to an officer and protégé of the Marquis de Louvois. At the behest of his father, Cazes was first tutored by an otherwise unknown artist named Ferou, concierge of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. He was later instructed by the painters René-Antoine Houasse and Bon Boullogne. Cazes competed in the Prix de Rome competition of 1698 with ''Joseph’s Cup Found in Benjamin’s Belongings'', but came in second place. He won the next year with ''Vision of Jacob in Egypt'', but chose not to go to Rome and instead remain in Paris. He was received as an academician at the Académie Royale in 1703 with a ''Triumph of Hercules over Achelous''. Cazes would later become its Director in 1744. He worked in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1729 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1729, art Events from the year 1729 in art. Events * Works of art from Rome arrive in Dresden, leading to the establishment of the Skulpturensammlung. * Pierre-Jean Mariette publishes the first volume of the ''Cabinet Crozat'', a catalogue of works in the collection of Pierre Crozat. Paintings * William Hogarth paints Act III of ''The Beggar's Opera''. * François Lemoyne paints ''Pygmalion Watching his Statue Come to Life''. * Antonio David paints portraits of Prince Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie") and his brother Prince Henry. * Nicolas de Largillière (Paris) paints a portrait of ''Elizabeth Throckmorton''. * Andreas Møller probably paints a portrait of the Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria. * A painter of the " Nasini circle" paints the ''Miracle of San Vincenzo Ferrer''. Births * January 5 – Paulus Constantijn la Fargue, Dutch painter, etcher and draftsman (died 1782) * January 17 – Giovanni Antonio Zaddei, Italian painter o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Ricci
Marco Ricci (6 June 1676 – 21 January 1730) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Early years He was born at Belluno and received his first instruction in art from his uncle, Sebastiano Ricci, likely in Milan in 1694–6.Giacometti, Margherita. In: ''The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century.'' Martineau, Jane; and Andrew Robinson, eds. Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 1994. He left for Venice with his uncle in 1696, but had to flee the city. He visited Rome, where he was for some time occupied in painting perspective views.Bryan, Michael; and George Stanley. A biographical and critical dictionary of painters and engravers: with a list of ciphers, monograms, and marks. G. Bell, 1878. In 1706–7, he worked with his uncle on the decoration of the Sala d'Ercole in the Palazzo Fenzi, located in Florence. Ricci's propensity for collaboration with other artists makes his early style difficult to trace, but it is generally agreed that his influences includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
