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1701 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1701, art Events from the year 1701 in art. Events * November – Philippe Bertrand becomes a member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture. * December 31 – Pierre Gobert becomes a member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture. * 13-year-old François Lemoyne becomes a member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture. * Peter Strudel becomes Reichsfreiherr and is appointed the director of the landscape academy in Vienna. * A sculptured life-size series on the Danse Macabre theme is moved to the old Neustädter Kirchhoff following a fire at the palace of Duke George in Dresden. Paintings * Giuseppe Maria Crespi – ''The Ecstasy of Saint Margaret'' * Sir Godfrey Kneller – ''William III on Horseback'' * Sebastiano Ricci – ''Ascension'' (Santi Apostoli, Rome) * Hyacinthe Rigaud – Portrait of Louis XIV of the House of Bourbon, the Sun King Publications * Gerard de Lairesse – ''Grondlegginge der teekenkonst'' Births * April 28 – François ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Bertrand
Philippe Bertrand (1663–1724) was a French sculptor of the late 17th and early 18th century. He received commissions for sculptures for both the Château de Marly and Versailles. In November, 1701, he was made a full member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture upon the display of a royal commission of 1700, his small bronze of the ''Rape of Helen'', a svelte composition of three figures with a debt to Giambologna's '' Rape of a Sabine Woman''. He was known for sculpting flowing, graceful, and even flying figures, particularly in his bronzes. In 1714, when the choir of Notre-Dame was refurbished in academic Baroque manner, in Louis XIV's fulfillment of a vow made by Louis XIII, Bertrand was commissioned to provide a small allegorical bronze as the prize for a poetry competition on the occasion, organised by the Académie française to celebrate the completion of the project; it is conserved in the Wallace Collection, London. Two further small collectors' bronzes by Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Françoise Basseporte
Madeleine Françoise Basseporte, (28 April 1701 – 6 September 1780) was a French painter. From 1741 until her death, she served as the Royal Painter for the King's Garden and Cabinet (now the Jardin des Plantes), an unprecedented appointment for a woman artist at the time. Life Basseporte was born and died in Paris. Originally a portrait painter specializing in pastels, she apprenticed with the botanical illustrator Claude Aubriet, requiring her to shift from pastels to watercolors and to adopt a precise, near-photographic style. In 1741, she replaced the ailing Aubriet as "Peintre du Roy, de son Cabinet et du Jardin", making her the first female artist to occupy the office. She served for nearly 40 years in this capacity, employing not only scientific illustration skills, but also the capacity to dissect plants and reveal their internal structures. The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau paid tribute to her, writing "Nature gives plants their existence, but Mademoiselle Bassepo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Longhi
Pietro Longhi (1702 or November 5, 1701 – May 8, 1785) was a Venetian painter of contemporary genre scenes of life. Biography Pietro Longhi was born in Venice in the parish of Saint Maria, first child of the silversmith Alessandro Falca and his wife, Antonia. He adopted the Longhi last name when he began to paint. He was initially taught by the Veronese painter Antonio Balestra, who then recommended the young painter to apprentice with the Bolognese Giuseppe Maria Crespi, who was highly regarded in his day for both religious and genre painting and was influenced by the work of Dutch painters. Longhi returned to Venice before 1732. He was married in 1732 to Caterina Maria Rizzi, by whom he had eleven children (only three of which reached the age of maturity). Among his early paintings are some altarpieces and religious themes. His first major documented work was an altarpiece for the church of San Pellegrino in 1732. In 1734, he completed frescoes in the walls and ceiling o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
November 5
Events Pre-1600 * 1138 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign. * 1499 – The '' Catholicon'', written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier, is published; this is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary. * 1556 – Second Battle of Panipat: Fighting begins between the forces of Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, the Hindu king at Delhi and the forces of the Muslim emperor Akbar. 1601–1900 * 1605 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament, where he had planted gunpowder in an attempt to blow up the building and kill King James I of England. *1688 – Prince William III of Orange lands with a Dutch fleet at Brixham to challenge the rule of King James II of England (James VII of Scotland). * 1757 – Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach. *1768 &nd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1759 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1759, art Events from the year 1759 in art. Events *Thomas Gainsborough and his family move to Bath, England. Works *Giambettino Cignaroli – ''Death of Cato'' *Thomas Gainsborough **''Self-portrait'' **''Thomas Wollaston'' *Joshua Reynolds – Kitty Fisher as Cleopatra Dissolving the Pearl' *John Shackleton – ''George II'' (British Museum, London) Births * January 21 – François Baillairgé, Canadian artist of woodworking, wood-carving, and architecture (died 1830) * February 10 – Carlo Lasinio, Italian engraver (died 1838) * July 10 – Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Belgian flower painter (died 1840) * July 27 – Pierre Charles Baquoy, French painter and engraver especially of famous historical characters (died 1829) * August 15 – Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin, French miniature painter (died 1832) * August 16 – Carl Frederik von Breda, Swedish painter to the Swedish court (died 1818) * December 16 – Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois, French ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodoor Verhaegen
Theodoor Verhaegen (4 June 1700 – 25 July 1759) was an 18th-century Flemish sculptor. His woodcarvings are known for its baroque expression. Biography He was born in Mechelen as the son of the sculptor Rombout Verhaegen.Theodoor Verhaegen in the He is known for religious works in Mechelen, where he worked with his contemporary, the sculptor Jan Frans Boeckstuyns. He died in Mechelen. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June 4
Events Pre-1600 *1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries. * 1561 – The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedral of London, is destroyed in a fire caused by lightning and is never rebuilt. 1601–1900 * 1615 – Siege of Osaka: Forces under Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan. * 1745 – Battle of Hohenfriedberg: Frederick the Great's Prussian army decisively defeated an Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine during the War of the Austrian Succession. *1760 – Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada, taken from the Acadians. *1783 – The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their ''montgolfière'' (hot air balloon). * 1784 – Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers four kilometres in 45 minute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1773 In Art
Events from the year 1773 in art. Events * July 25 – Francisco Goya marries Josefa Bayeu. * Ulrika Pasch elected in to the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts Paintings * John Singleton Copley – Portrait of Mrs Winslow * François-Hubert Drouais – Portrait of Marie Antoinette * Dmitry Levitzky – Portraits of the young ladies of the Smolny Institute in Saint Petersburg * Charles Willson Peale – Family Group portrait * Sir Joshua Reynolds – Lady Anne Luttrell, The Duchess of Cumberland' * Joseph Wright of Derby – '' Earthstopper on the Banks of the Derwent'' * Melchior Wyrsch – ''Reginald Pole Carew'' * Joseph Vernet – ''A Shipwreck in Stormy Seas'' Awards * Births * January 5 – Pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter and drawer (died 1839) * January 31 – Luigi Pichler, German-Italian artist in engraved gems (died 1854) * July 7 – Moses Haughton the Younger, English engraver and painter of portrait miniatures (died 1849) * December 9 – Marianne Ehrenström, Swedis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhinestone
A rhinestone, paste or diamante is a diamond simulant originally made from rock crystal but since the 19th century from crystal glass or polymers such as acrylic. Original Originally, rhinestones were rock crystals gathered from the river Rhine, hence the name, although some were also found in areas like the Alps, but today the name "rhinestone" applies only to varieties of lead glass known as crystal glass. The availability was greatly increased in the 18th century when the Alsatian jeweller Georg Friedrich Strass had the idea to imitate diamonds by coating the lower side of lead glass with metal powder. Hence, rhinestones are called ''strass'' in many European languages. As opposed to the classic rhinestones, which had a metal powder coating on the bottom side only, several companies have opted to mass-produce iridescent lead glass, by reducing the metal coating thickness and applying it uniformly, not using metal powder with a binder but by applying various forms of met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gemstones
A gemstone (also called a fine gem, jewel, precious stone, or semiprecious stone) is a piece of mineral crystal which, in cut and polished form, is used to make jewelry or other adornments. However, certain rocks (such as lapis lazuli, opal, and obsidian) and occasionally organic materials that are not minerals (such as amber, jet, and pearl) are also used for jewelry and are therefore often considered to be gemstones as well. Most gemstones are hard, but some soft minerals are used in jewelry because of their luster or other physical properties that have aesthetic value. Rarity and notoriety are other characteristics that lend value to gemstones. Apart from jewelry, from earliest antiquity engraved gems and hardstone carvings, such as cups, were major luxury art forms. A gem expert is a gemologist, a gem maker is called a lapidarist or gemcutter; a diamond cutter is called a diamantaire. Characteristics and classification The traditional classification in the West, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeweler
A bench jeweler is an artisan who uses a combination of skills to make and repair jewelry. Some of the more common skills that a bench jeweler might employ include antique restoration, silversmith, Goldsmith, stone setting, engraving, fabrication, wax carving, lost-wax casting, electroplating, forging, and polishing. Jewelry manufacture In general, an original design is made and sold using processes such as molding, casting, stamping and similar techniques. The other is original, one of a kind work. The bench jeweler will be a factor in many facets of the process, depending on what is needed and the skills of the worker. When a production piece is contemplated, it may go through a design process that can range from one person with an idea to a full-scale planning stage involving teams of artists and marketing professionals. Eventually, that design will need to be made into a real piece of metal jewelry, which is generally called a model, and the worker who makes it is gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alsace
Alsace (, ; ; Low Alemannic German/ gsw-FR, Elsàss ; german: Elsass ; la, Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2020, it had a population of 1,898,533. Alsatian culture is characterized by a blend of Germanic and French influences. Until 1871, Alsace included the area now known as the Territoire de Belfort, which formed its southernmost part. From 1982 to 2016, Alsace was the smallest administrative ''région'' in metropolitan France, consisting of the Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin departments. Territorial reform passed by the French Parliament in 2014 resulted in the merger of the Alsace administrative region with Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine to form Grand Est. On 1 January 2021, the departments of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin merged into the new European Collectivity of Alsace but remained part of the region Grand Est. Alsatian is an Alemannic dialect closely related ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
