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1705 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1705, art Events from the year 1705 in art. Events * The Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera becomes the first woman elected to the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. Paintings * Federiko Benković – ''Juno on the Clouds'' * Michael Dahl – '' Queen Anne'' * Sebastiano Ricci ** ''The Battle of the Lapiths and the Centaurs'' ** ''The Vision of St. Bruno'' Births * February 15 – Charles-André van Loo, French subject painter (died 1765), and a younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo * June 1 – Carl Marcus Tuscher, German-born Danish polymath, portrait painter, printmaker, architect, and decorator (died 1751) * August 18 – Emanuel Büchel, Swiss painter (died 1775) * ''date unknown'' ** Jean Barbault, French painter and engraver (died 1765/1766) ** Andrés de la Calleja, Spanish painter (died 1785) ** Andrea Casali, Italian painter of the Rococo period (died 1784) ** Carlo Costanzi, Italian gem engraver of the late-Baroque period (died 1781) ** Claude Dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po River, Po and the Piave River, Piave rivers (more exactly between the Brenta (river), Brenta and the Sile (river), Sile). In 2020, around 258,685 people resided in greater Venice or the ''Comune di Venezia'', of whom around 55,000 live in the historical island city of Venice (''centro storico'') and the rest on the mainland (''terraferma''). Together with the cities of Padua, Italy, Padua and Treviso, Italy, Treviso, Venice is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), which is considered a statistical metropolitan area, with a total population of 2.6 million. The name is derived from the ancient Adri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1775 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1775, art Events from the year 1775 in art. Events * Nathaniel Hone the Elder courts controversy when his satirical painting The Conjuror' is seen to ridicule Sir Joshua Reynolds and attack the English fashion for copying Italian Renaissance painting, and is rejected by the Royal Academy of Arts (ostensibly on the grounds that also includes a nude caricature of fellow Academician Angelica Kauffman, which Hone subsequently paints out). To show his reputation is undamaged, Hone organises a one-man retrospective in St Martin's Lane, London – the first such solo exhibition of an artist’s work. * Josiah Wedgwood introduces jasperware pottery in England, commissioning designs from John Flaxman. *Construction of the Cluj-Napoca Bánffy Palace, the modern-day National Museum of Art Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania. Paintings * Nathaniel Dance-Holland – Portrait of Captain James Cook *Joseph Duplessis – Portrait of Christoph Willibald von Gluck *Marie-Suzann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Feke
Robert Feke ( 1705 or 1707 1752) was an American portrait painter born in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. According to art historian Richard Saunders, "Feke’s impact on the development of Colonial painting was substantial, and his pictures set a new standard by which the work of the next generation of aspiring Colonial artists was judged." In total, about 60 paintings by Feke survive, twelve of which are signed and dated. Life and career One of Robert Feke's grandmothers was Elizabeth Fones. Little is known for certain about his life, particularly his early years. Only one work by Feke, a portrait of a child, is datable before 1741.Saunders, Richard H. "Robert Feke". Oxford Art Online. Retrieved July 15, 2012 In that year he moved to Boston, where he painted ''Isaac Royall and Family'' (1741), a group portrait which borrows its composition from John Smybert’s ''The Bermuda Group'' (1729). Feke's works also show the influence of John Wollaston. From 1741 until 1750, Fek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1782 In Art
Events from the year 1782 in art. Events * Spring – George Romney first paints Emma Hart. * ''The Nightmare'' (1781) by Henry Fuseli is shown at the Royal Academy of London. Works * Antonio Canova - ''Theseus and the Minotaur'' (Victoria and Albert Museum) * John Singleton Copley – ''Midshipman Augustus Brine'' * Anne Seymour Damer – ''Two Sleeping Dogs'' (terracotta original) * Étienne Maurice Falconet – Bronze Horseman (Saint Petersburg) * Thomas Gainsborough ** '' George, Prince of Wales'' ** ''John Hayes St Leger'' ** '' Master Nicholls (The Pink Boy)'' ** '' Girl with Pigs'' * Thomas Jones – '' House in Naples'' and similar oil sketches * Angelica Kauffman – '' Allegory of poetry and music'' * Joseph Lange – Portrait of his sister-in-law Constanze Mozart * Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – '' Self-portrait in a Straw Hat'' * Charles Willson Peale – '' John Eager Howard in Uniform'' * Sir Joshua Reynolds ** '' Captain George K. H. Coussmaker'' ** ' ... [...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] |
1781 In Art
Events from the year 1781 in art. Events * August 27 – Danish artists Marie Jeanne Crevoisier and Johan Frederik Clemens are married. Works * George Barret, Sr. – '' View of Windermere Lake, Early Morning'' * Jacques-Louis David – ''Belisarius begging for alms'' * Philip James de Loutherbourg – ''Eidophusikon'' * Henry Fuseli – ''The Nightmare'' * Thomas Gainsborough – Mrs Robinson as Perdita' * Anton Graff – '' Frederick the Great, King of Prussia'' * Jean-Antoine Houdon – Portrait busts of Voltaire and Molière * Sir Joshua Reynolds ** Emily Potts as Thaïs' (Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire) ** ''George, 2nd Earl Harcourt, his wife Elizabeth and his brother William'' (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) * George Romney ** ''Ann Bowes'' ** ''The Charteris Children'' * Joseph Wright of Derby – ''Sir Brooke Boothby'' Births * March (probable) – John Burnet, Scottish engraver and painter (died 1868) * March 13 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Prussian architect and pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Costanzi
Carlo Costanzi (1705–1781) was an Italian gem engraver of the late-Baroque period. He was born to a family of gem-makers and artists in Naples. His father Giovanni and brother Tommaso were also a gem engravers, while his other brother Placido became a painter. Carlo later moved and worked the rest of his life in Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption .... He obtained commissions from the major European courts. References 1705 births 1781 deaths Artists from Naples 18th-century Italian artists Engraved gem artists {{Italy-artist-stub ... [...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] |
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region. Italy is also considered part of Western Europe, and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. It has a territorial exclave in Switzerland, Campione. Italy covers an area of , with a population of over 60 million. It is the third-most populous member state of the European Union, the sixth-most populous country in Europe, and the tenth-largest country in the continent by land area. Italy's capital and largest city is Rome. Italy was the native place of many civilizations such as the Italic peoples and the Etruscans, while due to its central geographic location in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, the country has also historically been home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Casali
Andrea Casali (17 November 1705 – 7 September 1784) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period. He was also an art dealer in England. ''Angelica e Medoro'', Bemberg Fondation Toulouse He was born in Civitavecchia in the Papal States and studied under Sebastiano Conca and Francesco Trevisani. Until 1738 he was a decorative painter of Roman churches and in 1729 was made a Knight of the Golden Spur; for this in England he would be called "the Chevalier Casali". He travelled to England in 1741 and stayed there for twenty-five years. He was a teacher to James Durno. Some sources erroneously claim a birthdate of 1720 (e.g., Bryan and Hobbes). Among his English patrons were Thomas Coke, earl of Leicester (1697–1759), and Alderman William Beckford. He left England in 1766, after which he lived for some years at Rome, where he died in 1784. Works (partial list): *''The Virgin and Child, after Raphael'', etching, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco *''St. Edward the Martyr'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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