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1725 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1725, art Events from the year 1725 in art. Events * January 20 – The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is refounded by Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, as the ''k.k. Hofakademie der Maler, Bildhauer und Baukunst'', under the direction of the French-born court painter Jacob van Schuppen. * A number of artists including Juan Vicente Ribera are appointed by the Council of Castile to develop a tax structure for artworks Paintings * Canaletto ** ''Doge's Palace'' ** ''Entrance to the Grand Canal: Looking East'' ** ''The Grand Canal from Rialto toward the North'' ** ''The Grand Canal near the Ponte di Rialto'' ** ''The Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge in the Background'' ** ''Rio dei Mendicanti: Looking South'' ** ''Santi Giovanni e Paolo and the Scuola di San Marco'' * Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin – '' The Skate'' * Sebastiano Ricci – '' Apotheosis of Saint Sebastian'' (approximate date) * Jacob de Wit – ''Hercules on Mount Olympus'' (ceiling painting now at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 20
Events Pre-1600 * 250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution. * 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom. * 1156 – Finnish peasant Lalli kills English clergyman Henry, the Bishop of Turku, on the ice of Lake Köyliö. * 1265 – The first English parliament to include not only Lords but also representatives of the major towns holds its first meeting in the Palace of Westminster, now commonly known as the "Houses of Parliament". * 1320 – Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland. * 1356 – Edward Balliol surrenders his claim to the Scottish throne to Edward III in exchange for an English pension. * 1523 – Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway. * 1567 – Battle of Rio de Janeiro: Portuguese forces under the command of Estácio de Sá definitively drive the French out of Rio de Janeiro. * 157 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Solimena
Francesco Solimena (4 October 1657 – 3 April 1747) was a prolific Italian painter of the Baroque era, one of an established family of painters and draughtsmen. Biography Francesco Solimena was born in Canale di Serino in the province of Avellino. He received early training from his father, Angelo Solimena, with whom he executed a ''Paradise'' for the cathedral of Nocera (a place where he spent a big part of his life) and a ''Vision of St. Cyril of Alexandria'' for the church of San Domenico at Solofra. He settled in Naples in 1674, where he worked in the studio of Francesco di Maria.Pavone, Mario Alberto (2003, January 1). "Solimena family". Grove Art Online. He was patronized early on, and encouraged to become an artist by Cardinal Vincenzo Orsini (later Pope Benedict XIII). By the 1680s, he had independent fresco commissions, and his active studio came to dominate Neapolitan painting from the 1690s through the first four decades of the 18th century. He modeled his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1794 In Art
Events from the year 1794 in art. Events * English painter Thomas Birch comes to the United States to assist his artist father, William Birch, in preparing a 29-plate collection of engravings entitled ''Birch's Views of Philadelphia'', eventually published in 1799. Works * William Blake – ''The Ancient of Days'' * Louis-Léopold Boilly – ''The Triumph of Marat'' * Giuseppe Ceracchi – ''Alexander Hamilton'' (marble portrait bust) * John Singleton Copley – '' Admiral of the Fleet Howe'' * Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine – '' The Hanging of Traitors in Effigy'' * Johann Friedrich Dryander ** ''Portrait du citoyen Laboucly, inspecteur de la viande'' ** ''Portrait de Dominique Joseph Garat'' ** ''Portrait du général Jourdan et de son adjutant'' * John Flaxman – '' The Fury of Athamas'' (marble group; completed) * Thomas Jones – ''Classical Landscape with a River'' * Angelica Kauffman ** '' Portrait of the Impromptu Virtuoso Teresa Bandettini-Landucci of Lucca'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski
Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski (or Lisiewsky) (3 June 1725 in Berlin – 11 June 1794 in Ludwigslust) was an 18th-century German portrait painter. Lisiewski belonged to a family of painters founded by his father, Georg Lisiewski, a native of Poland who was an active portrait painter in Berlin. Christoph Lisiewski was from 1752 to 1772 court painter to the Prince of Anhalt-Dessau. In that time, he also traveled to Dresden and Leipzig to work. He then brought together with his sister Anna Dorothea Therbusch a workshop in Berlin in which a shared work was performed, activities lasted from 1773 to 1779. His other sister was the portrait painter Anna Rosina de Gasc. In 1783 he became an honorary member of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. As the successor to his nephew Georg David Matthieu, he was a portrait painter for the Mecklenburg-Schwerin The Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was a duchy in northern Germany created in 1701, when Frederick William and Adolphu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June 3
Events Pre-1600 * 350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators. * 713 – The Byzantine Empire, Byzantine emperor Philippikos Bardanes, Philippicus is Political mutilation in Byzantine culture, blinded, deposed and sent into exile by conspirators of the Opsikion army in Thrace. He is succeeded by Anastasios II, who begins the reorganization of the Byzantine army. *1098 – After a five-month siege during the First Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch (today's Turkey). *1140 – The French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of Heresy in Christianity, heresy. *1326 – The Treaty of Novgorod (1326), Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark. *1539 – Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain. 1601–1900 *1602 – An English naval force defeats a fleet of Spanish galleys, and captures a large Portuguese carrac ... [...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] |
Peder Als
Peder Als (16 May 1725 – 8 July 1775) was a Danish historical and portrait painter. Life Als was born at Copenhagen in 1725, and studied under Carl Gustaf Pilo whose style was a considerable influence on him. He first attracted attention in 1743, when he sold a painting of biblical subject to the King of Denmark. He attended the Kunstakademiet (the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts), and while still there gained recognition as a portraitist with a series of paintings of knights of the order of the Dannebrog. He won the academy's gold medal in 1755, and travelled to Rome and Paris in 1757–62. In Rome he entered the school of Anton Raphael Mengs, who became another powerful influence on him. He spent most of his time in Rome copying the pictures of Raphael and Andrea del Sarto, which it is said that he did with great accuracy. He also copied Correggio and Titian. On his return to Denmark he painted some good portraits; but his colouring was too sombre to give a pleasing eff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 16
Events Pre-1600 * 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan. *1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. * 1364 – Hundred Years' War: Bertrand du Guesclin and a French army defeat the Anglo-Navarrese army of Charles the Bad at Cocherel. * 1426 – Gov. Thado of Mohnyin becomes king of Ava.; Thursday, 10th waxing of Nayon 788 ME = 16 May 1426 * 1527 – The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic. * 1532 – Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England. *1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England. * 1584 – Santiago de Vera becomes sixth Governor-General of the Spanish colony of the Philippines. 1601–1900 * 1739 – The Battle of Vasai concludes as the Marathas defeat the Portuguese army. * 1770 – The 14-year-old Marie Antoinette mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1767 In Art
Events from the year 1767 in art. Events * March – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo is commissioned to paint seven altarpieces for the Convento de San Pascual, Aranjuez, at this time under construction, by its founder Charles III of Spain; these include ''The Immaculate Conception''. * Canaletto (1697–1768) spends his last full year painting, in Venice. Paintings * Francis Cotes – '' The infant Charlotte, Princess Royal, with her mother, Queen Charlotte'' * Jean-Honoré Fragonard – '' The Swing'' (French: {{lang, fr, Les hasards heureux de l'escarpolette; Wallace Collection, London) * Philip James de Loutherbourg – '' Landscape with Animals'' * David Martin – ''Benjamin Franklin'' * Richard Paton – '' The Battle of Cape Passaro, 11 August 1718'' * Joshua Reynolds – ''Elizabeth, Lady Amherst'' (Elizabeth, Lady Amherst) * Alexander Roslin ** Double portrait of himself and his wife, Marie, painting a portrait of Henrik Peill ** Portrait of Jean-François Marmontel * Joha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Ignatz Sadler
Joseph Ignatz Sadler (17 February 1725 – 9 January 1767) was a Czech painter. Life Sadler was born in Olomouc, and primarily painted religious-themed frescoes. acting especially in Moravia, for example the frescoes on the ceiling of the church of the Holy Trinity Church, Fulnek. He was the brother-in-law of the painter Johann Christoph Handke Johann Christoph Handke ( cs, Jan Kryštof Handke; 18 February 1694 in Rýmařov – 31 December 1774 in Olomouc) was a baroque painter from Moravia. He was the brother-in-law of the painter Joseph Ignatz Sadler. He made frescos as well as oil pain .... He was of German minority ethnics in Moravia. Further reading * Hail, George; Breedlove, Martin; Mlčák, Leos, et al. Josef Ignaz Sadler 1725-1767 Art Museum Olomouc - Olomouc Archdiocesan Museum, Gallery: 18 May - 28 August 2011. Olomouc Olomouc Museum of Art. 143 pp. . * Schenk, Marie; Olšovský, Jaromír. Baroque painting and sculpture in the western part of Czech Silesia. Opava: Siles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
February 17
Events Pre-1600 * 1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau. * 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of Bayezid I, becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire with the support of Mircea I of Wallachia. *1500 – Duke Friedrich and Duke Johann attempt to subdue the peasantry of Dithmarschen, Denmark, in the Battle of Hemmingstedt. * 1600 – On his way to be burned at the stake for heresy, at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, the philosopher Giordano Bruno has a wooden vise put on his tongue to prevent him continuing to speak. 1601–1900 * 1621 – Myles Standish is appointed as first military commander of the English Plymouth Colony in North America. * 1674 – An earthquake strikes the Indonesian island of Ambon. It triggers a megatsunami which drowns over 2,300 people. * 1676 – Sixteen men of Pascual de Iriate's expedition are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1795 In Art
Events from the year 1795 in art. Events * Nicolas-Jacques Conté patents the modern pencil 'lead' in France and produces the first Conté sticks. Works * William Blake's monotypes ''Nebuchadnezzar'', ''Newton'', '' The Night of Enitharmon's Joy'' and ''Pity''. * Giuseppe Ceracchi's marble portrait bust of ''George Washington'' * Philip James de Loutherbourg's painting '' Lord Howe's action, or the Glorious First of June''. * François-Xavier Fabre's Portrait of Lord Holland. * François Gérard's portrait of fellow-artist '' Jean-Baptiste Isabey with his daughter''. * Francisco Goya's '' Self-portrait in the studio''. * Guillaume Guillon-Lethière's painting '' The Death of Cato of Utica'' * John Hoppner's '' Portrait of the Frankland sisters''. Births *February 10 – Ary Scheffer, French painter of Dutch extraction (died 1858) * May 3 – Richard James Wyatt, English sculptor (died 1850) * May 7 – William Fox-Strangways, English diplomat and art collector (died 1865 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
