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1697 In Art
Events from the year 1697 in art. Events * December 13 – Tsar Peter the Great of Russia visits Dutch Republic official Jacob de Wilde in Amsterdam to view his art collection, "the beginning of the West European classical tradition in Russia"; a view of the meeting is engraved by Jacob's daughter Maria de Wilde. Paintings * Giovan Battista Caniana – ''The Crucifixion'' (Church of Santa Maria and San Giacomo, Romano di Lombardia) * Adriaen Coorte – ''Still Life with Shells'' * Carlo Maratta – ''The Baptism of Jesus'' * Hyacinthe Rigaud – Portrait of Cardinal Louis Antoine de Noailles * Hyacinthe Rigaud and Joseph Parrocel – Portrait of Louis, Grand Dauphin * Painting of Christian V presiding over the Supreme Court of Denmark Births * March 30 – Jan Baptist Xavery, Flemish sculptor active in the Netherlands (died 1742) * April 12 – Anton Pichler, Tyrolean goldsmith and artist of engraved gems (died 1779) * June 22 – Pierre-Imbert Drevet, French portrait engrav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
December 13
Events Pre-1600 *1294 – Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after only five months to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit. *1545 – The Council of Trent begins as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation. *1577 – Sir Francis Drake sets sail from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage. 1601–1900 *1623 – The Plymouth Colony establishes the system of trial by 12-men jury in the American colonies. *1636 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians, a date now considered the founding of the National Guard of the United States. *1642 – Abel Tasman is the first recorded European to sight New Zealand. *1643 – English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire. *1758 – The English transport ship ''Duke William'' sinks in the North Atlantic, killing over 360 people. *1769 – Dartmouth College is founded by the Reverend Eleaza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Baptist Xavery
Jan Baptist Xavery or Jan Baptist Xavery (30 March 1697, in Antwerp – 19 July 1742, in Antwerp) was a Flemish sculptor principally active in the Dutch Republic.Jan Baptist Xavery at the Netherlands Institute for Art History He produced portrait busts, large scale statues for residences and gardens, church furniture, wall decorations, tomb monuments as well as small scale statuettes in boxwood, lime wood, ivory and terracotta. The latter were made for elite collectors who liked to admire such objects in the privacy of their homes.Jan Baptist Xavery, ''Bacchus and Pan'' at Sotheby's He worked on vario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Van Bleeck
Petrus Johannes (Pieter) van Bleeck (baptized 25 June 1697 in The Hague – 20 July 1764 in London) was a Dutch portrait painter and mezzotint engraver active in London, where he moved in 1723. Van Bleeck is especially known for theatrical subjects such as Owen Swiny, Kitty Clive and Margaret Woffington, but he also worked on other subjects such as James Foster. His paintings were frequently engraved, particularly by John Faber the Younger. Peter engraved a portrait of Ellen "Nell" Gwynne by Sir Peter Lely. He was the son of Richard van Bleeck, also a portrait painter. Personal life Van Bleeck married Alice Cony in 1745 at St Pauls Cathedral London, in the Parish of St Benets near Pauls Wharf St Andrew. His Marriage Bond allegation of 8 October Link text Source Information: Ancestry.com. London and Surrey, England, Marriage Bonds and All ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June 25
Events Pre-1600 * 524 – The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce. * 841 – In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine. * 1258 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Acre, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet sailing to relieve Acre. * 1530 – At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany. 1601–1900 * 1658 – Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War. *1678 – Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua. *1741 – Maria Theresa is crowned Queen of Hungary. *1786 – Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea. *17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1739 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1739, art Events from the year 1739 in art. Events * Royal sculptor Edme Bouchardon is commissioned to design the Fontaine des Quatre-Saisons in Paris. Paintings * Francis Bindon – Portrait of Dean Jonathan Swift (for Chapter of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin) * François Boucher – ''The Breakfast'' * Joseph Parrocel – ''Saint Francis Regis Interceding for the Plague Victims'' * Antoine Pesne – Portrait of Frederick the Great as Crown Prince * Francesco Carlo Rusca – Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu * Paul Troger – '' Apotheosis of Charles VI as Apollo'' (fresco for Imperial staircase ceiling at Göttweig Abbey, Austria) Births * February 23 - Peter Adolf Hall, Swedish-French artist primarily of miniature paintings (died 1793) * ?August – Francis Towne, English water-colour painter (died 1816) * August 21 – Mariano Salvador Maella, Spanish painter and engraver (died 1819) * October 3 – Valentine Green, engraver (died 1813) * ''da ... [...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] |
June 22
Events Pre-1600 * 217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom. * 168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Perseus who surrenders after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War. * 813 – Battle of Versinikia: The Bulgars led by Krum defeat the Byzantine army near Edirne. Emperor Michael I is forced to abdicate in favor of Leo V the Armenian. * 910 – The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army near the Rednitz River, killing its leader Gebhard, Duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine). * 1527 – Fatahillah expels Portuguese forces from Sunda Kelapa, now regarded as the foundation of Jakarta. *1593 – Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Ottomans. 1601–1900 * 1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1779 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1779, art Events from the year 1779 in art. Events * October 8 – William Blake enrols as a student with the Royal Academy of Arts at Somerset House in London. Paintings * Per Krafft the Elder – '' Carl Michael Bellman'' * David Martin – '' Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay and Lady Elizabeth Murray'' * Charles Willson Peale – ''George Washington at Princeton'' * Sir Joshua Reynolds ** '' Lady Elizabeth Delmé and Her Children'' ** Lady Jane Halliday' ** '' Admiral Lord Keppel'' (National Portrait Gallery, London) * George Stubbs ** The Labourers' ** ''A Lion and a Tiger'' ** Mambrino' Births * January 3 – Gustav Philipp Zwinger, German painter (died 1819) * February 20 – Augustus Wall Callcott, English landscape painter (died 1844) * March 21 – Vojtěch Benedikt Juhn, Czech painter and engraver (died 1843) * April 19 - Anson Dickinson, American painter of miniature portraits (died 1852) * May 27 – Juan Antonio Ribera, Spanish Neoclassi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Engraved Gems
An engraved gem, frequently referred to as an intaglio, is a small and usually semi-precious gemstone that has been carved, in the Western tradition normally with images or inscriptions only on one face. The engraving of gemstones was a major luxury art form in the Ancient world, and an important one in some later periods. Strictly speaking, ''engraving'' means carving ''in intaglio'' (with the design cut ''into'' the flat background of the stone), but relief carvings (with the design projecting ''out of'' the background as in nearly all cameos) are also covered by the term. This article uses ''cameo'' in its strict sense, to denote a carving exploiting layers of differently coloured stone. The activity is also called ''gem carving'' and the artists ''gem-cutters''. References to antique gems and intaglios in a jewellery context will almost always mean carved gems; when referring to monumental sculpture, counter-relief, meaning the same as ''intaglio'', is more likely to be used. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goldsmith
A goldsmith is a Metalworking, metalworker who specializes in working with gold and other precious metals. Nowadays they mainly specialize in jewelry-making but historically, goldsmiths have also made cutlery, silverware, platter (dishware), platters, goblets, decorative and serviceable utensils, and ceremonial or religious items. Goldsmiths must be skilled in forming metal through file (tool), filing, brazing, soldering, sawing, forging, Casting (metalworking), casting, and polishing. The trade has very often included jewelry-making skills, as well as the very similar skills of the silversmith. Traditionally, these skills had been passed along through apprenticeships; more recently jewelry arts schools, specializing in teaching goldsmithing and a multitude of skills falling under the jewelry arts umbrella, are available. Many universities and junior colleges also offer goldsmithing, silversmithing, and metal arts fabrication as a part of their fine arts curriculum. Gold Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Of Tyrol
The (Princely) County of Tyrol was an estate of the Holy Roman Empire established about 1140. After 1253, it was ruled by the House of Gorizia and from 1363 by the House of Habsburg. In 1804, the County of Tyrol, unified with the secularised prince-bishoprics of Trent and Brixen, became a crown land of the Austrian Empire. From 1867, it was a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary. Today the territory of the historic crown land is divided between the Italian autonomous region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and the Austrian state of Tyrol. The two parts are today associated again in the Tyrol–South Tyrol–Trentino Euroregion. History Establishment At least since German king Otto I had conquered the former Lombard kingdom of Italy in 961 and had himself crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome, the principal passes of the Eastern Alps had become an important transit area. The German monarchs regularly travelled across Brenner or Reschen Pass on their Italian expedi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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