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1704 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1704, art Events from the year 1704 in art. Events * Works * Paolo Alessandro Maffei – Engraving of ''Menelaus supporting the body of Patroclus'' * Sebastiano Ricci ** ''Crucifixion with Virgin, John the Evangelist and Carlo Borromeo'' (Uffizi, Florence) ** ''Procolo, Peasant Detention'' (Bergamo Cathedral) Births * January 17 (''bapt.'') – William Verelst, English painter of portraits, still lifes and birds (died 1752) * January 24 – Francesco Appiani, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Rome and Perugia (died 1792) * February 15 – Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, French sculptor (died 1778) * April 4 – Andreas Brünniche, Danish portrait painter (died 1769) * May/June – Johann Baptist Straub – German Rococo sculptor (died 1784) * August 2 – Robert Gillow, English furniture designer (died 1772) * September 5 – Maurice Quentin de La Tour, French Rococo portraitist working primarily in pastels (died 1788) * ''date unknown'' ** I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Alessandro Maffei
Paolo Alessandro Maffei (11 January 1653 – 26 July 1716) was an antiquarian with a humanist education, who was active in Rome. Maffei was the son of Paolo Maffei and his wife Giovanna di Raffaele, both of patrician families of Volterra. He was a descendant of the humanist and papal bureaucrat Raffaello Maffei, "il Volterrano,"Lombardi 1830. (1451–1522), author of the ''Commentaria urbana'' (1506), dedicated to Julius II. Paolo Alessandro was made a ''cavaliere'' of the Tuscan Order of Saint Stephen and an honorary member of the Papal Guard. He wrote the laudatory biography of Pope Pius V, in which he praised the Pope's suppression of newsletters and slanderous printed ''avvisi'' in 1572. Maffei's name is familiar to art historians today because, when the entrepreneurial printer-publisher Domenico de' Rossi published a collection of engravings of ancient and modern Roman sculpture, ''Raccolta di statue antiche e moderne'' (Rome, 1704), he turned to the well-known antiquarian f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (15 February 1704 – 1778) was a French sculptor of the 18th century who worked in both the rococo and neoclassical style. He made monumental statuary for the Gardens of Versailles but was best known for his expressive portrait busts. Life Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne was born in Paris in 1705. His father Jean-Louis Lemoyne, was also a sculptor, and was first teacher. He later became a student of another prominent sculptor, Robert Le Lorrain. He is sometimes referred to as Jean-Baptiste II Lemoyne or "the younger" to distinguish him from his uncle of the same name, another sculptor, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Elder. He received the prix de Rome awarded by the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, but remained in Paris to aid his blind father. He became a member of the Academy in 1838, and, later became its director. Like the other royal sculptors, made statuary for the Gardens of Versailles. He was a particular favorite of Madame de Pompadour, the mistr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Quentin De La Tour
Maurice Quentin de La Tour (5 September 1704 – 17 February 1788) was a French Rococo portraitist who worked primarily with pastels. Among his most famous subjects were Voltaire, Rousseau, Louis XV of France, Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour. Biography Maurice Quentin de La Tour was born in Saint-Quentin, Aisne, Saint-Quentin, the third son of a musician, François de La Tour. François was from Laon and he was the son of a master mason, Jean de La Tour, of Laon and Saint-Quentin, who died in 1674. François de La Tour apparently was successively a trumpet-player for the rifle regiment of the Duc du Maine, and musician to the master of the collegiate church of Saint-Quentin. He is popularly said to have disapproved of his son taking up the arts, but there is nothing to support this. According to François Marandet in 2002, an apprenticeship was arranged for the young Maurice, with a painter named Dupouch, from 12 October 1719, but it is not known when this contract was terminat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
September 5
Events Pre-1600 * 917 – Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu. * 1367 – Swa Saw Ke becomes king of Ava * 1590 – Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris. 1601–1900 *1622 – A hurricane overruns a Spanish fleet bound from Havana to Cadiz and sinks the galleon Atocha. Only five men are rescued, but 260 passengers and 200 million pesos are buried with the Atocha under 50 feet of water. *1661 – Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV's Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers. * 1666 – Great Fire of London ends: Ten thousand buildings, including Old St Paul's Cathedral, are destroyed, but only six people are known to have died. * 1697 – War of the Grand Alliance : A French warship commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville defeated an English squadron at the Battle of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1772 In Art
Events from the year 1772 in art. Events *July 13 – Captain James Cook leaves Plymouth in HMS ''Resolution'' on his second voyage of exploration with landscape painter William Hodges onboard (in lieu of Johann Zoffany). *King George III of the United Kingdom appoints Benjamin West official painter to the court. Works *John Singleton Copley – ''Samuel Adams'' (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) *Thomas Gainsborough **''The Linley Sisters'' **'' William Johnstone-Pulteney'' * Thomas Jones – ''Pencerrig'' *Tilly Kettle – ''Dancing Girls (Blacks)'' *Anton Raphael Mengs – '' The Triumph of History over Time'' (Allegory of the Museum Clementinum; ceiling fresco in the Camera dei Papiri, Vatican Library) *Fyodor Rokotov – ''Portrait of Alexandra Struyskaya'' *Alexander Roslin **'' King Christian VII of Denmark'' **'' King Gustav III of Sweden'' *George Stubbs **''The Kongouro from New Holland'' **''Portrait of a Large Dog'' *Claude Joseph Vernet – ''The Shipwreck'' *Joseph Wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Gillow
Robert Gillow (1704–1772) was an English furniture manufacturer, who founded Gillow & Co. Early life Robert Gillow was born on 2 August 1704 in Singleton, Lancashire to a prominent English recusant Roman Catholic family. He served an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker. Career He joined with a family of traders called Sattersthwaite and sailed with them to the West Indies as a ships carpenter. In Jamaica, he became interested in mahogany and brought samples of the wood back to Lancaster in 1720. This may have been the first mahogany to be imported to England. He founded the luxury furniture and furnishings firm Gillow of Lancaster in 1730. During the 1730s, he began to exploit the lucrative West Indies trade exporting mahogany furniture and importing rum and sugar, in addition to fitting out ships cabins and doing finishing work in construction. The firm rapidly established a reputation for supplying high quality furniture and furnishings to the richest families in the count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August 2
Events Pre-1600 *338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean. *216 BC – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae. *49 BC – Caesar, who marched to Spain earlier in the year leaving Marcus Antonius in charge of Italy, defeats Pompey's general Afranius and Petreius in Ilerda (Lerida) north of the Ebro river. * 461 – Majorian is arrested near Tortona (northern Italy) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor. * 932 – After a two-year siege, the city of Toledo, in Spain, surrenders to the forces of the Caliph of Córdoba Abd al-Rahman III, assuming an important victory in his campaign to subjugate the Central March. * 1274 – Edward I of England returns from the Ninth Crusade and is crowned King seventeen days later. * 1343 &nda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1784 In Art
Events from the year 1784 in art. Events * July 30 – Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller is elected to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris. * ''date unknown'' – Thomas Chippendale, the younger, begins exhibiting his paintings at the Royal Academy. Works * John Bacon â€seated sculpture of Sir William Blackstone(Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford, England) * James Barry – ''The Progress of Human Culture'' (completed series in Great Room of Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in London) * Antonio Carnicero – '' Ascent of Monsieur Bouclé's Montgolfier Balloon in the Gardens of Aranjuez'' * Jacques-Louis David – '' Oath of the Horatii'' ( Musée du Louvre, Paris) * Thomas Gainsborough ** John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire' and his wife Caroline Connolly' ** Frances Browne, Mrs John Douglas' * Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Two portraits of the Comte de Vaudreuil * Charles Willson Peale ** '' General Benjam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rococo
Rococo (, also ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, and ''trompe-l'Å“il'' frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama. It is often described as the final expression of the Baroque movement. The Rococo style began in France in the 1730s as a reaction against the more formal and geometric Louis XIV style. It was known as the "style Rocaille", or "Rocaille style". It soon spread to other parts of Europe, particularly northern Italy, Austria, southern Germany, Central Europe and Russia. It also came to influence the other arts, particularly sculpture, furniture, silverware, glassware, painting, music, and theatre. Although originally a secular style primarily used for interiors of private residences, the Rococo had a spiritual aspect to it which led to its widespread use in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Baptist Straub
Johann Baptist Straub (1 June 1704 (baptism) – 15 July 1784) was a German Rococo sculptor. Biography Straub was born in Wiesensteig, into a family of sculptors. His father Johann George Straub and his brothers Philipp Jakob, Joseph, and Johann Georg Straub were also sculptors, as was his nephew Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. J. B. Straub studied in Munich with the court sculptor Gabriel Luidl and then went to Vienna, where he worked from 1726 to 1734. In 1734 Straub returned to Munich. In 1737 he was appointed by Elector Karl Albrecht from Bavaria as the court sculptor. In the same year Straub married a daughter of the court engraver, Franz Xaver Späth. Straub worked primarily in Upper Bavarian churches and monasteries, frequently alongside some of the greatest Baroque artists of the day: the architect Johann Michael Fischer, the painter Johann Baptist Zimmermann, the Asam Brothers, the Tyrolian painter Johann Jacob Zeiller, and the stuccoists Franz Xaver and Johann M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1769 In Art
Events from the year 1769 in art. Events * April 25–May 27 – First Royal Academy summer exhibition held in London. Awards * Joshua Reynolds is knighted. Works * Charles Catton – Self-portrait * Joseph Ducreux – ''Marie Antoinette'' (portrait miniature) * Jean-Honoré Fragonard ** ''Inspiration'' (Self-portrait, Louvre, Paris) ** '' Self-portrait with palette and brushes'' (approximate date; Fragonard Museum, Hélène & Jean-François Costa Collection, Grasse) * Christopher Hewetson – Busts of Charles Townley and Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn * Ozias Humphry – ''Charlotte, Princess Royal'' (portrait miniature, Windsor Castle) * Alexander Roslin – '' John Jennings Esq., his Brother and Sister-in-Law'' * Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert – ''Love Triumphant'' (''L'Amour prêt à lancer un trait'', marble, approximate date) * Johann Zoffany – ''The Drummond Family'' Births * January 8 – Pietro Benvenuti, Italian neoclassical painter (died 1844) * January 31 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Brünniche
Andreas Pedersen Brünniche (4 April 1704 in Roskilde – 4 November 1769 in Copenhagen) was a Danish portrait painter, active in the period called either late Baroque or early Rococo. Biography Andreas Brünniche was the son of Peder Jacobsen Brünniche and Anne Marensdatter. He came to Copenhagen, where he got a job with Bendix Grodtschilling the Younger and from 1737 at Johann Salomon Wahl's workshop. As his student, he was a much sought portrait painter in the capital, but also raised customers in many other provinces. He was also influenced by baroque masters such as Andreas Møller and Balthasar Denner and by rococo style under a more mature age influenced by Johan Hörner and CG Pilo. Brünniche was a skilled colorist, his ability to convincingly reproduce the tones of the sitter's skin and individualize the people portrayed made him popular and demanded especially among the local nobility. He portrayed some of the most influential people of Denmark at the time. On 7 J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
