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1762 In Art
Events from the year 1762 in art. Events * Trevi Fountain in Rome is completed after thirty years of work, with Nicola Salvi's design being modified by Giovanni Paolo Panini. * The art collection of Joseph Smith (1682–1770), Joseph Smith, former British Consul (representative), consul in Venice, including many works by Canaletto, is sold to King George III of Great Britain for the Royal Collection. * James Stuart (1713–1788), James Stuart and Nicholas Revett's ''Antiquities of Athens'' is published. * Horace Walpole begins publication of ''Anecdotes of Painting in England'', based on George Vertue's manuscript notes. Paintings *Thomas Davies (British Army officer), Thomas Davies – ''An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara'' *François-Hubert Drouais – '':File:Франсуа Гюбер Друэ младший. Портрет князя Д.М.Голицына.jpg, Portrait of Dmitry Mikhaylovich Golitsyn'' *Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Nathaniel Hone – Portrait of Lie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevi Fountain
The Trevi Fountain ( it, Fontana di Trevi) is an 18th-century fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Giuseppe Pannini and several others. Standing high and wide, it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city and one of the most famous fountains in the world. The fountain has appeared in several films, including ''Roman Holiday'' (1953); '' Three Coins in the Fountain'' (1954); Federico Fellini's classic, ''La Dolce Vita'' (1960); ''Sabrina Goes to Rome'' (1998); and ''The Lizzie McGuire Movie'' (2003). History before 1629 The fountain, at the junction of three roads (), marks the terminal point of the "modern" —the revived , one of the aqueducts that supplied water to ancient Rome. In 19 BCE, supposedly with the help of a virgin, Roman technicians located a source of pure water some from the city. (This scene is presented on the present fountain's façade.) However, the eventual indirect route of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eberhard Wächter (painter) , sometimes spelled Waechter, (1929–1992), Austrian opera singer
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Eberhard Wächter may refer to: * Eberhard Georg Friedrich von Wächter (1762–1852), German painter *Eberhard Wächter (baritone) Eberhard Freiherr von Waechter (9 July 1929 – 29 March 1992) was an Austrian baritone celebrated for his performances in the operas of Mozart, Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. After retiring from singing, he became intendant of the Vie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
February 29
February 29, also known as leap day or leap year day, is a date added to leap years. A leap day is added in various solar calendars (calendars based on the Earth's revolution around the Sun), including the Gregorian calendar standard in most of the world. Lunisolar calendars (whose months are based on the phases of the Moon) instead add a leap or intercalary month. It is the 60th day of a leap year in the Gregorian calendar, and 306 days remain until the end of the leap year. It is also the last day of February on leap years. It is also the last day of meteorological winter in Northern Hemisphere and the last day of meteorological summer in the Southern Hemisphere on leap years. Events Pre-1600 *1504 – Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Jamaican natives to provide him with supplies. 1601–1900 * 1644 – Abel Tasman's second Pacific voyage begins as he leaves Batavia in command of three ships. *1704 – In Queen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Garrick
David Garrick (19 February 1717 – 20 January 1779) was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of European theatrical practice throughout the 18th century, and was a pupil and friend of Samuel Johnson. He appeared in a number of amateur theatricals, and with his appearance in the title role of Shakespeare's '' Richard III'', audiences and managers began to take notice. Impressed by his portrayals of Richard III and a number of other roles, Charles Fleetwood engaged Garrick for a season at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in the West End. He remained with the Drury Lane company for the next five years and purchased a share of the theatre with James Lacy. This purchase inaugurated 29 years of Garrick's management of the Drury Lane, during which time it rose to prominence as one of the leading theatres in Europe. At his death, three years after his retirement from Drury Lane and the stage, he was given a lavish public funeral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Zoffany
Johan Joseph Zoffany (born Johannes Josephus Zaufallij; 13 March 1733 – 11 November 1810) was a German neoclassical painter who was active mainly in England, Italy and India. His works appear in many prominent British collections, including the National Gallery, the Tate Gallery and the Royal Collection, as well as institutions in continental Europe, India, the United States and Australia. His name is sometimes spelled Zoffani or Zauffelij (on his grave, it is spelled Zoffanij). Life and career Of noble Hungarian and Bohemian origin, Johan Zoffany was born near Frankfurt on 13 March 1733, the son of a cabinet maker and architect in the court of Alexander Ferdinand, 3rd Prince of Thurn and Taxis. He undertook an initial period of study in a sculptor's workshop in Ellwangen during the 1740s, possibly the shop of Melchior Paulus, and later at Regensburg with the artist . In 1750, he travelled to Rome, entering the studio of Agostino Masucci. In the autumn of 1760, he arrived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whistlejacket
''Whistlejacket'' is an oil on canvas painting from about 1762 by the British artist George Stubbs showing the Marquess of Rockingham's racehorse approximately at life-size, rearing up against a plain background. The canvas is large, lacks any other content except some discreet shadows, and Stubbs has paid precise attention to the details of the horse's appearance. It has been described in ''The Independent'' as "a paradigm of the flawless beauty of an Arabian thoroughbred". The Fitzwilliam family, heirs of the childless Rockingham, retained the painting until 1997 when funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund allowed the National Gallery, London to acquire it for £11 million. Stubbs was a specialist equine artist who in 1762 was invited by Rockingham to spend "some months" at Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire, his main country house. Stubbs had painted many horse portraits, with and without human figures, but the heroic scale and lack of background of ''Whistlejacket'' are " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Stubbs
George Stubbs (25 August 1724 – 10 July 1806) was an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses. Self-trained, Stubbs learnt his skills independently from other great artists of the 18th century such as Reynolds or Gainsborough. Stubbs' output includes history paintings, but his greatest skill was in painting animals, perhaps influenced by his love and study of anatomy. His series of paintings on the theme of a lion attacking a horse are early and significant examples of the Romantic movement that emerged in the late 18th century. His painting, ''Whistlejacket'' hangs in the National Gallery, London. Biography Stubbs was born in Liverpool, the son of a currier, or leather-dresser, John Stubbs, and his wife Mary. Egerton, Judy (2007). George Stubbs, Painter: Catalogue raisonné'. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. . p. 10. Information on his life until the age of 35 or so is sparse, relying almost entirely on notes made by Ozias Humphry, a fellow ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ostenaco
Otacity Ostenaco (; chr, ᎤᏥᏗᎯ ᎤᏍᏔᎾᏆ, Utsidihi Ustanaqua, or "Bighead"; c. 1710Kate Fullagar, ''The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire,''Yale University Press 2020 p.13. – 1780) was a Cherokee leader and warrior of the 18th century. By his thirties, he had assumed the warrior rank of ''Utsidihi'' (Mankiller), and the title of the Tassite of Great Tellico. He then rose to assume the higher Cherokee rank of Cherokee chief warrior or ''skiagusta'', orator, and leading figure in diplomacy with British colonial authorities. The name Otacity has a variety of spellings. Birth and early life He was born in the thickly-settled Cherokee township of Tellico. It has been conjectured that he was born into the ''Ani-waya''(Wolf) clan, the one associated in particular with bearing numerous warriors. He was often referred to among white colonists as Judd's Friend, referring to his relationship of a trader by that name After the Cree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 4th Earl Of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury Bt PC FRS (9 February 1711 – 27 May 1771) was a British peer and philanthropist, who served as one of the leading figures in the foundation of the colony of Georgia and as Lord Lieutenant of Dorset from 1734 until his death. Family legacy Shaftesbury's father, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, died in February 1713, leaving him fatherless in infancy, as well as heir to the family titles and estates. He grew up learning about the achievements of his father and great-grandfather and revering his family history. In 1732, he published a new edition of his father's influential work, ''Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times''. The book was among the most influential of the British Enlightenment; historian Benjamin Rand described the 3rd Earl as the “greatest Stoic of modern times.” Shaftesbury also commissioned a biography of his great-grandfather and retained Benjamin Martyn for the project. He had become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter, specialising in portraits. John Russell said he was one of the major European painters of the 18th century. He promoted the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He was a founder and first president of the Royal Academy of Arts, and was knighted by George III in 1769. Early life Reynolds was born in Plympton, Devon, on 16 July 1723 the third son of the Rev. Samuel Reynolds, master of the Plympton Free Grammar School in the town. His father had been a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, but did not send any of his sons to the university. One of his sisters was Mary Palmer (1716–1794), seven years his senior, author of ''Devonshire Dialogue'', whose fondness for drawing is said to have had much influence on him when a boy. In 1740 she provided £60, half of the premium paid to Thomas Hudson the portrait-painter, for Joshua's pupilage, and nine years later a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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