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1724 In Art
Events from the year 1724 in art. Events * Swiss artist Johann Caspar Füssli goes to Vienna to study painting. * Charles-Antoine Coypel publishes his illustrations for ''Don Quixote'' in a deluxe folio in Paris.Paulson, Ronald, 1998, ''Don Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of Laughter'', Johns Hopkins University Press, , p. 45. Paintings * Canaletto ** ''Grand Canal, Looking East from the Campo San Vio'' (Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid) ** ''Grand Canal, Looking Northeast from Palazo Balbi toward the Rialto Bridge'' ** ''Piazza San Marco'' ** ''Rio dei Mendicanti'' * Jan van Huysum – ''Bouquet of Flowers in an Urn'' (''see image'') * Charles Jervas – ''Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk'' * Sebastiano Ricci ** ''Bathsheba in her Bath'' ** ''Repudiation of Agar'' ** ''Solomon adores the idols'' Births * January 16 – Per Krafft the Elder, Swedish portrait painter (died 1793) * April 14 – Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, French draftsman, printmaker, etcher and painter (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bouquet Of Flowers In An Urn
Bouquet, a word of French origin, pronounced , may refer to: Decorative or creative arrangements * Flower bouquet, an arrangement of cut flowers * Fruit bouquet, a fruits arrangement in the form of bouquet * Bouquet garni, a bundle of herbs used to prepare soup, stock, and various stews * Candy Bouquet, an arrangement of candy, cellophanes, chocolate * Vegetable bouquet * Spiritual bouquet, a collection of prayers and spiritual actions given up for a specific purpose In arts, entertainment, and media * ''Bouquet'' (EP), a 2015 EP by The Chainsmokers * ''Bouquet'' (Robbie Basho album), 2015 * Bouquet (Percy Faith album), 1959 * Bouquet (magazine), a Japanese manga magazine People * Alan Coates Bouquet (1884–1976), English minister * Anne Bouquet (born 1952), High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia * Carole Bouquet (born 1957), French actress * Henry Bouquet (1719–1765), British army officer * Jean-Claude Bouquet (1819–1885), French mathematician * Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Anton Maulbertsch
Franz Anton Maulbertsch (7 June 1724 – 8 August 1796) was an Austrian painter and engraver, one of the most renowned exponents of Rococo painting in the German and Hungarian regions. Maulbertsch was born in Langenargen and studied in the Academy of Vienna. Through the knowledge of Paul Troger, he was influenced by the Venetian painters Piazzetta and Giovanni Battista Pittoni. He also studied the frescoes by Sebastiano Ricci in the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, and frequented Giambattista Tiepolo, who was active in Würzburg starting from 1750. An appreciated frescoer, he received numerous commissions, mostly of ecclesiastical theme. He produced art for churches in Bicske, Kalocsa, Vienna's Michaelerkirche and Piaristenkirche Maria Treu. He also decorated the Porta Coeli in Moravia, the Kroměříž Archbishop's Palace and the villa of Halbturn. He also painted a portrait of Narcissus of Jerusalem. He died at Vienna in 1796. Gallery File:Franz Anton Maulbertschl - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1787 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1787, art Events from the year 1787 in art. Events * Seventeen-year-old Thomas Lawrence arrives in London and takes lodgings near Sir Joshua Reynolds. Works * Jacques-Louis David – ''The Death of Socrates'' (completed) * Thomas Gainsborough ** '':File:Thomas Gainsborough Lady Georgiana Cavendish.jpg, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire'' ** ''Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (painting), Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan'' * Francisco Goya ** ''Highwaymen Attacking a Coach'' ** The Snowstorm (Winter)' ** The Swing' * Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – '':File:Lebr04.jpg, Marie Antoinette and her Children'' (completed) * Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine – '':File:Lemoine Portrait dame fils fille balcon fenêtre.jpg, Portrait of a Woman with Her Son and Daughter in a Balcony Window'' * George Romney (painter), George Romney – Mrs Jordan as Peggy' * Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein – '':File:Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein 007.jpg, Goethe in the Campagna'' Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Engraving
Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a Burin (engraving), burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or Glass engraving, glass are engraved, or may provide an Intaglio (printmaking), intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing images on paper as prints or illustrations; these images are also called "engravings". Engraving is one of the oldest and most important techniques in printmaking. Wood engraving is a form of relief printing and is not covered in this article, same with rock engravings like petroglyphs. Engraving was a historically important method of producing images on paper in artistic printmaking, in mapmaking, and also for commercial reproductions and illustrations for books and magazines. It has long been replaced by various photographic processes in its commercial applications and, partly because of the difficulty of learning th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Baratti
Antonio Baratti (or Baratta; 7 January 1724, in Belluno (not in Florence as some sources say) – 28 July 1787, in Venice) was an Italian engraver, etcher and printmaker. Baratti was educated in the workshop of Joseph Wagner in Venice, later together with Fabio Berardi and Francesco Bartolozzi. Baratti studied and worked for a time at an engraver's workshop in Bassano del Grappa. He married Valentina Monaco and opened his own workshop in which he was supported by his wife and his three sons Domenico, Tommaso (or Tomaso) and Pietro and soon also by the pupils Antonio Sandi and Giuseppe Daniotto. He engraved single-sheet prints and prints as parts of larger publications. Among the motives are portraits and about 140 religious themed works, those after works by Paolo Veronese, Francesco Vanni, Guido Reni, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta and Pietro Antonio Novelli. Baratti died on 28 July 1787 in Venice. Some works * 121 plates for the Italian edition ''Dizionario mitologico'' by A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1805 In Art
Events in the year 1805 in Art. Events *April 17 – English landscape artist Charles Gough sets out on a walk in the Lake District. On July 27 his skeleton is found on the slopes of Helvellyn. *June – The British Institution (for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom) is established in London by a group of connoisseurs. *The British Museum purchases Charles Townley's collection of Roman sculpture. *William Blake begins work on the illustrations for Blair's ''The Grave''. Works *William Blake – ''The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne'' (pencil and watercolour) *Vincenzo Camuccini – '' The Death of Caesar'' *John Sell Cotman – ''Greta Bridge'' *Jacques-Louis David – '' Portrait of Pope Pius VII'' *François Gérard **'' Portrait of Catherine Worlée, Princesse de Talleyrand-Périgord'' (1804–05) **''Portrait of Madame Récamier'' *James Gillray – ''The Plumb-pudding in danger, or, State Epicures taking un Petit Souper'' *F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée
Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (called ''Lagrenée l'aîné'', Lagrenée the elder) (30 December 1724 – 19 June 1805) was a French rococo painter and student of Carle van Loo. He won the ''Grand Prix de Rome'' for painting in 1749 and was elected a member of the ''Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture'' in 1755. His younger brother Jean-Jacques Lagrenée (called ''Lagrenée le jeune'', Lagrenée the younger) was also a painter. Lagrenée's notable career appointments included: :* Court painter to Elizabeth, Empress of Russia. :* Director of the ''Academy of Arts'' in Saint Petersburg. :* Director of the French Academy in Rome. :* Professor-rector of the ''Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture''. :* Honorary director-curator of the Louvre museum. In July 1804, Napoleon I conferred upon Lagrenée the rank of ''chevalier'' (Knight) of the ''Legion d'Honneur''. Lagrenée died in June 1805, aged 80 years and 6 months. Early life Lagrenée was born in Pari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
December 30
Events Pre-1600 *534 – The second and final edition of the Code of Justinian comes into effect in the Byzantine Empire. *999 – Battle of Glenmama: The combined forces of Munster and Meath under king Brian Boru inflict a crushing defeat on the allied armies of Leinster and Dublin near Lyons Hill in Ireland. * 1066 – Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace in Granada, crucifies Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacres most of the Jewish population of the city. *1419 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of La Rochelle. *1460 – Wars of the Roses: Lancastrians kill the 3rd Duke of York and win the Battle of Wakefield. 1601–1900 *1702 – Queen Anne's War: James Moore, Governor of the Province of Carolina, abandons the Siege of St. Augustine. *1813 – War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York. *1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1801 In Art
Events in the year 1801 in Art. Events * Works *Fyodor Alekseyev – '' Red Square in Moscow'' *Jean Broc – '' The Death of Hyacinthos'' *Jacques-Louis David – ''Napoleon Crossing the Alps'' (first version) *John Flaxman – Marble memorial to William Jones in chapel of University College, Oxford *François Gérard – '' Portrait of Empress Josephine'' *Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – '' Ossian receiving the Ghosts of the French Heroes (Apothéose des héros français morts pour la patrie pendant la guerre de la liberté)'' (approx. date) *Francisco Goya **''Charles IV of Spain and His Family'' **''Portrait of Manuel Godoy'' *Philip James de Loutherbourg – ''Coalbrookdale by Night'' *Rembrandt Peale – ''Rubens Peale with a Geranium'' *J. M. W. Turner – '' Dutch Boats in a Gale (the Bridgewater Sea Piece)'' *Marie-Denise Villers – ''Young Woman Drawing'' *Richard Westmacott – Marble memorial to John Yorke in parish church of St. Andrew, Wimpole, Englan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacobus Buys
Jacobus Buys (19 November 1724 – 7 April 1801) was a Dutch painter and engraver. Buys was born in Amsterdam the son of a wig-maker. He studied under Cornelis Pronk, Jacob de Wit, and Cornelis Troost, and ultimately became director of the Amsterdam Drawing Academy. He painted portraits, bas-reliefs, and tapestry Tapestry is a form of textile art, traditionally woven by hand on a loom. Tapestry is weft-faced weaving, in which all the warp threads are hidden in the completed work, unlike most woven textiles, where both the warp and the weft threads ma ..., designed book-illustrations, and made copies of the works of the best masters of the seventeenth century. Buys became a member of Amsterdam's Guild of St Luke in 1750, and died in 1801. References Attribution: * 1724 births 1801 deaths 18th-century Dutch painters 18th-century Dutch male artists Dutch male painters Engravers from Amsterdam Painters from Amsterdam {{Netherlands-painter-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
November 19
Events Pre-1600 * 461 – Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The real power is in the hands of the ''magister militum'' Ricimer. * 636 – The Rashidun Caliphate defeats the Sasanian Empire at the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah in Iraq. * 1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island called Borinquen he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed again Puerto Rico). 1601–1900 * 1794 – The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War. * 1802 – The Garinagu arrive at British Honduras (present-day Belize). * 1808 – Finnish War: The Convention of Olkijoki in Raahe ends hostilities in Finland. *1816 – Warsaw University is established. * 1847 – The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railroad, is opened. * 1863 – American Civil War: U.S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1806 In Art
Events in the year 1806 in art. Events *18 January – The British Institution opens the former Boydell Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, London, as the "British Gallery", alternating the world's first regular temporary exhibitions of Old Master paintings with sale exhibitions of the work of living artists. Works * Antonio Canova – ''Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker'' (bronze nude) * Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – '' Charles-Marie Bonaparte'' * John Hoppner – Sleeping Venus and Cupid' * Jean-Antoine Houdon Portrait bust of Napoleon* Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres ** ' ** '' Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière'' ** '' Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne'' * Thomas Lawrence – Lady Georgiana Fane' (approximate date) * Henry Raeburn – Lord Newton' (approximate date) * Philipp Otto Runge – '' The Hülsenbeck Children'' * Benjamin West **'' The Death of Nelson'' **'' Thetis Bringing the Armor to Achilles'' (second version) * David Wilkie ** '' The Blind Fiddler'' ** Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
