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1780 In Art
Events from the year 1780 in art. Events * Works * Jacques-Louis David ** '' Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki'' ** ''Saint Roch Interceding with the Virgin for the Plague-Stricken'' * Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine – '' Les Marionettes polonaises'' * Francisco Goya – '' Christ Crucified'' * Francis Holman – '' The moonlight Battle of Cape St Vincent, 16 January 1780'' * Jacob More ** ''Landscape with Classical Figures, Cicero at his Villa'' ** ''Mount Vesuvius in Eruption: The Last Days of Pompeii'' * Sir Joshua Reynolds – ''The Ladies Waldegrave'' * John Trumbull – ''George Washington'' * Francis Wheatley – '' The Irish House of Commons'' * Johann Zoffany *Double Portrait of Henry and Mary Styleman(commissioned) ** Portrait of Tipu Sultan Births * January 10 – Pieter Christoffel Wonder, Dutch painter active in England (died 1852) * February 15 – Alfred Edward Chalon, Swiss portrait painter (died 1860) * February 18 – Alexey Venetsianov, Russian ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristo En La Cruz (Goya)
Cristo may refer to: * Christ People *Cristo Foufas, British radio presenter * Giovanni Di Cristo (born 1986), Italian judoka * Julio Sánchez Cristo (born 1959), Colombian radio personality * Inri Cristo, (born 1948), a Brazilian self-proclaimed Messiah See also * Christo (name) ** Christo (1935–2020), artist who wrapped public places in fabric * Crist (surname) * Crista (other) * Cristi * Cristy * El Cristo (other) * Kristo (other) * Monte Cristo (other) {{disambiguation, given name, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tipu Sultan
Tipu Sultan (born Sultan Fateh Ali Sahab Tipu, 1 December 1751 – 4 May 1799), also known as the Tiger of Mysore, was the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore based in South India. He was a pioneer of rocket artillery.Dalrymple, p. 243 He introduced a number of administrative innovations during his rule, including a new coinage system and calendar, and a new land revenue system, which initiated the growth of the Mysore silk industry. He expanded the iron-cased Mysorean rockets and commissioned the military manual ''Fathul Mujahidin''. He deployed the rockets against advances of British forces and their allies during the Anglo-Mysore Wars, including the Battle of Pollilur and Siege of Srirangapatna. Tipu Sultan and his father used their French-trained army in alliance with the French in their struggle with the British, and in Mysore's struggles with other surrounding powers: against the Marathas, Sira, and rulers of Malabar, Kodagu, Bednore, Carnatic, and Travancore. Tipu's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Hicks
Edward Hicks (April 4, 1780 – August 23, 1849) was an American folk painter and distinguished religious minister of the Society of Friends (aka "Quakers"). He became a Quaker icon because of his paintings. Biography Early life Edward Hicks was born in his grandfather's mansion at Attleboro (now Langhorne), in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His parents were Anglican. Isaac Hicks, his father, was a Loyalist who was left without any money after the British defeat in the Revolutionary War. After young Edward's mother died when he was eighteen months old, Matron Elizabeth Twining – a close friend of his mother's – raised him as one of her own at their farm, known as the Twining Farm. ''Note:'' This includes He apparently also resided at the David Leedom Farm. ''Note:'' This includes She also taught him the Quaker beliefs, which had a great effect on the rest of his life. At the age of thirteen Hicks began an apprenticeship to coach makers William and Hen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 14
Events Pre-1600 * 43 BC – Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum. * 69 – Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor Otho in the First Battle of Bedriacum to take power over Rome. * 966 – Following his marriage to the Christian Doubravka of Bohemia, the pagan ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, converts to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state. * 972 – Otto II, Co-Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, marries Byzantine princess Theophanu. She is crowned empress by Pope John XIII in Rome the same day. * 1395 – Tokhtamysh–Timur war: At the Battle of the Terek River, Timur defeats the army of the Golden Horde, beginning the khanate's permanent military decline. * 1471 – In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet; the Ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1847 In Art
Events from the year 1847 in art. Events *Salon indépendent established in Paris. *William Dyce is commissioned to decorate the Queen's Robing Room at the newly completed Palace of Westminster. Works *John Wilson Carmichael – :File:Carmichael 01.jpg, ''HMS ''Erebus'' and ''Terror'' in the Antarctic'' *Thomas Cole – ''Indian Pass Tawahus'' *Thomas Couture – '':File:THOMAS COUTURE - Los Romanos de la Decadencia (Museo de Orsay, 1847. Óleo sobre lienzo, 472 x 772 cm).jpg, Romans of the Decadence'' *Jean-Léon Gérôme – ''The Cock Fight'' *Solomon Hart – Milton Visiting Galileo when a Prisoner of the Inquisition' *John Rogers Herbert – '':File:Savioursubject.JPG, Our Saviour Subject to His Parents in Nazareth'' *Edward Hicks – '':File:Edward Hicks - Penn's Treaty.jpeg, Penn's Treaty'' *Robert Huskisson – The Midsummer Night's Fairies' *Charles Lees (painter), Charles Lees – '':File:'The Golfers' by Charles Lees, 1847, oil on canvas, National Galleries of Scotla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and shares Borders of Russia, land boundaries with fourteen countries, more than List of countries and territories by land borders, any other country but China. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, world's ninth-most populous country and List of European countries by population, Europe's most populous country, with a population of 146 million people. The country's capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city is Moscow, the List of European cities by population within city limits, largest city entirely within E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexey Venetsianov
Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov (russian: Алексей Гаврилович Венецианов; 18 February 1780–4 January 1847) was a Russian painter, renowned for his paintings devoted to peasant life and ordinary people. Life Alexey Venetsianov was born into a merchant family in Moscow. He entered the civil service in the early 19th century and moved to St. Petersburg, where he began to study art. He first practiced with pictures of the Hermitage and with portraits of friends. He later became acquainted with Vladimir Borovikovsky and lived in his house as an apprentice. He tried to work as a freelance portraitist, but received few commissions. In 1811 the Board of the Academy of Arts awarded him the title of Academician for his two works - Self-Portrait and ''Portrait of K. I. Golovachevsky and the Younger Pupils of the Academy''. In 1819, devoting himself purely to art, Venetsianov left the service, bought the village of Safonkovo, and settled there. During this t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
February 18
Events Pre-1600 * 1229 – The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy. * 1268 – The Battle of Wesenberg is fought between the Livonian Order and Dovmont of Pskov. * 1332 – Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces. * 1478 – George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London. 1601–1900 *1637 – Eighty Years' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by six warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them. * 1735 – The ballad opera called ''Flora, or Hob in the Well'' went down in history as the first opera of any kind to be produced in North America (Charleston, S.C.) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1860 In Art
Events from the year 1860 in art. Events * February 28 – The Artists Rifles is established as a volunteer corps of the British Army with headquarters at Burlington House in London. * May 23 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti marries his model Elizabeth Siddal in Hastings and they depart on honeymoon to Paris. * December 30 – ''Towarzystwo Zachęty do Sztuk Pięknych'' ("Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts") holds its first meeting in Warsaw. * Founding of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Awards * Grand Prix de Rome, painting: Ernest Michel * Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture: Barthélemy Raymond * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Joseph Louis Achille Joyau * Grand Prix de Rome, music: Emile Paladilhe Works * Lawrence Alma-Tadema – '' A Bargain: Brabant Women'' * Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry – ''Charlotte Corday'' * Edward Burne-Jones – ''Clara von Bork'' and ''Sidonia von Bork'' * Paul Cézanne - ''The Four Seasons'' * Edgar Degas – '' Young Spartans Exercising'' (begun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Edward Chalon
Alfred Edward Chalon (15 February 1780 – 3 October 1860) was a Swiss-born British portraitist. He lived in London where he was noticed by Queen Victoria. Biography Alfred Chalon was born in Geneva from a father who soon was hired as professor at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in England. With his brother John James Chalon (1778–1854), Alfred became an artist. Entered at the Royal Academy in 1797, he joined the Associated Artists in Water-Colours, a group of aquarellists. In the Academy, he was elected an associate (ARA) in 1812, then academician (RA) in 1816. Known for his portraits of the good society of London, he was chosen by Queen Victoria to paint a gift to her mother:Negus, Ron (September 2007). "The Queen in close-up", ''Stamp Magazine'' 73-9, page 47. Victoria in her State robes going to the House of Lords for her first official act, the prorogation of the Parliament, on 17 July 1837. After this task, Chalon was entitled Portrait Painter in Water Colou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
February 15
Events Pre-1600 * 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus * 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia. * 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberios III publicly executed in the Hippodrome of Constantinople. * 1002 – At an assembly at Pavia of Lombard nobles, Arduin of Ivrea is restored to his domains and crowned King of Italy. *1113 – Pope Paschal II issues '' Pie Postulatio Voluntatis'', recognizing the Order of Hospitallers. *1214 – During the Anglo-French War (1213–1214), an English invasion force led by John, King of England, lands at La Rochelle in France. * 1493 – While on board the ''Niña'', Christopher Columbus writes an open letter (widely distributed upon his return to Portugal) describing his discoveries and the unexpected items he came across in the New World. 1601–1900 * 1637 – Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor. * 1690 &n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1852 In Art
Events from the year 1852 in art. Events * February 5 – Hermitage Museum first opens to the public in Saint Petersburg. * June 1 – The Hôtel Drouot is inaugurated in Paris as a fine art auction gallery. Works * Théodore Chassériau – '' Le Harem'' (approximate date) * Frederic Edwin Church - '' The Natural Bridge, Virginia'' * Gustave Courbet ** ''Village Damsels'' ** ''A Girl Spinning'' * Thomas Couture – ''Anselm Feuerbach'' * Anselm Feuerbach – ''Hafiz at the Fountain'' * Hiroshige – '' Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji'' (first publication) * William Holman Hunt – '' Our English Coasts, 1852 ('Strayed Sheep')'' * George Inness – '' A Bit of the Roman Aqueduct'' * George Jones – ''Turner's Gallery; the Artist Showing his Work'' * Frederic Leighton – ''The Death of Brunelleschi'' * John Martin – ''The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah'' * John Everett Millais ** ''A Huguenot'' ** ''Ophelia'' * François Rude – ''Joan of Arc'' (marble) * John Steell – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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