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1707 In Art
Events from the year 1707 in art. Events * Antoine Coypel becomes professor and rector of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture. * James Thornhill begins work on the Painted Hall of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, Greenwich (completed 1727), probably having concluded work at Chatsworth House. Paintings * Michael Dahl – Portrait of Sir William Whetstone (probable date) * Andrea Pozzo – ''Admittance of Hercules to Olympus'' ('' trompe-l'œil'' painting on ceiling of Liechtenstein Garden Palace, Vienna) * Francesco Solimena – Portrait of Charles III of Habsburg * Dirk Valkenburg – '' A Plantation in Suriname'' * Willem van de Velde the Younger – ''The Gust'' Births * January 11 – Giuseppe Bonito, Neapolitan painter of the Rococo period (died 1789) * January 28 ''(bapt.)'' – John Baskerville, typographer and craftsman (died 1775) * February 27 – Joseph Johann Kauffmann, Austrian painter of portraits, church decorations, and castle depictions (died 1782) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Coypel
Antoine Coypel (11 April 16617 January 1722) was a French painter, pastellist, engraver, decorative designer and draughtsman.Coypel, Antoine in: Benezit Dictionary of Artists He became court painter first to the and later to the French king. He became director of the . He was given the title of ''Garde des tableaux et dessins du roi'' (Keeper of the paintings and drawings of the king), a function which combined the role of director and curator of the king's art collection. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1782 In Art
Events from the year 1782 in art. Events * Spring – George Romney first paints Emma Hart. * ''The Nightmare'' (1781) by Henry Fuseli is shown at the Royal Academy of London. Works * Antonio Canova - ''Theseus and the Minotaur'' (Victoria and Albert Museum) * John Singleton Copley – ''Midshipman Augustus Brine'' * Anne Seymour Damer – ''Two Sleeping Dogs'' (terracotta original) * Étienne Maurice Falconet – Bronze Horseman (Saint Petersburg) * Thomas Gainsborough ** '' George, Prince of Wales'' ** ''John Hayes St Leger'' ** '' Master Nicholls (The Pink Boy)'' ** '' Girl with Pigs'' * Thomas Jones – '' House in Naples'' and similar oil sketches * Angelica Kauffman – '' Allegory of poetry and music'' * Joseph Lange – Portrait of his sister-in-law Constanze Mozart * Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – '' Self-portrait in a Straw Hat'' * Charles Willson Peale – '' John Eager Howard in Uniform'' * Sir Joshua Reynolds ** '' Captain George K. H. Coussmaker'' ** ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous city and state. A landlocked country, Austria is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The country occupies an area of and has a population of 9 million. Austria emerged from the remnants of the Eastern and Hungarian March at the end of the first millennium. Originally a margraviate of Bavaria, it developed into a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire in 1156 and was later made an archduchy in 1453. In the 16th century, Vienna began serving as the empire's administrative capital and Austria thus became the heartland of the Habsburg monarchy. After the dissolution of the H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Johann Kauffmann
Joseph Johann Kauffmann (27 February 1707 – 11 January 1782); other first name spellings in references: Josef Johann, Johann Joseph) was an Austrian painter known for his portraits, church decorations and castle depictions. Along with his wife Cleophea Lutz he had a single child, his daughter Angelika Kauffmann (*1741), is also remembered as a painter. Life He was born in Schwarzenberg, Austria, and is described as a relatively poor man with painting skills. The original family home was a small village in the Austrian alps called Schwarzenberg in the Vorarlberg area. In the years 1740 to 1742 he was in duty of the prince-bishop from Chur/Switzerland. In 1755 the family moved to Milan until in 1757 the mother died and father with daughter returned to Schwarzenberg. There they helped in painting the interiors of the recently heavily fire damaged local church house. The father concentrated on the general interior whilst his daughter worked on the apostle images. At a later t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
February 27
Events Pre-1600 * 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity. * 425 – The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia. * 907 – Abaoji, chieftain of the Yila tribe, is named khagan of the Khitans. *1560 – The Treaty of Berwick is signed by England and the Lords of the Congregation of Scotland, establishing the terms under which English armed forces were to be permitted in Scotland in order to expel occupying French troops. * 1594 – Henry IV is crowned King of France. 1601–1900 *1617 – Sweden and the Tsardom of Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea. *1626 – Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after leading the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under N ... [...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] |
John Baskerville
John Baskerville (baptised 28 January 1707 – 8 January 1775) was an English businessman, in areas including japanning and papier-mâché, but he is best remembered as a printer and type designer. He was also responsible for inventing "wove paper", which was considerably smoother than "laid paper", allowing for sharper printing results. Life Baskerville was born in the village of Wolverley, near Kidderminster in Worcestershire and baptised on 28 January 1706 OS(1707 NS) at Wolverley church. Baskerville established an early career teaching handwriting and is known to have offered his services cutting gravestones (a demonstration slab by him survives in the Library of Birmingham) before making a considerable fortune from the manufacture of lacquerwork items (japanning). He practised as a printer in Birmingham, England. Baskerville was a member of the Royal Society of Arts, and an associate of some of the members of the Lunar Society. Baskerville directed his punchcut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 28
Events Pre-1600 * 98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany. * 814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession of his son Louis the Pious as ruler of the Frankish Empire. * 1069 – Robert de Comines, appointed Earl of Northumbria by William the Conqueror, rides into Durham, England, where he is defeated and killed by rebels. This incident leads to the Harrying of the North. * 1077 – Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, is lifted after he humbles himself before Pope Gregory VII at Canossa in Italy. * 1521 – The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25. * 1547 – Edward VI, the nine-year-old son of Henry VIII, becomes King of England on his father's death. *1568 – The Edict of Torda prohibits the persecution of individuals on religious grounds in John Sigismund Zápolya's Eastern Hung ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1789 In Art
Events from the year 1789 in art. Events * May 4 – The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, designed for John Boydell by George Dance the Younger, is opened in London. * James Stuart and Nicholas Revett publish "The Antiquities of Athens" with William Pars's 1765 painting "The Parthenon when it contained a mosque". * Sir Joshua Reynolds loses the sight of his left eye, which forces him into retirement from painting. Works * John Singleton Copley – ''The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782'' * Jacques-Louis David – ''The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons'' * Francisco Goya – '' Blind Man's Bluff'' (cartoon for tapestry) * Thomas Lawrence ** Portrait of Queen Charlotte ** ''William Linley'' * Joshua Reynolds ** ''Cupid and Psyche'' ** ''Puck'' (Boydell Shakespeare Gallery) * John Trumbull – ''The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, 1789'' Births * March 7 – Michel Martin Drolling, French painter of history and portraits (died 185 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rococo
Rococo (, also ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, and ''trompe-l'œil'' frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama. It is often described as the final expression of the Baroque movement. The Rococo style began in France in the 1730s as a reaction against the more formal and geometric Louis XIV style. It was known as the "style Rocaille", or "Rocaille style". It soon spread to other parts of Europe, particularly northern Italy, Austria, southern Germany, Central Europe and Russia. It also came to influence the other arts, particularly sculpture, furniture, silverware, glassware, painting, music, and theatre. Although originally a secular style primarily used for interiors of private residences, the Rococo had a spiritual aspect to it which led to its widespread use in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022. Its province-level municipality is the third-most populous metropolitan city in Italy with a population of 3,115,320 residents, and its metropolitan area stretches beyond the boundaries of the city wall for approximately 20 miles. Founded by Greeks in the first millennium BC, Naples is one of the oldest continuously inhabited urban areas in the world. In the eighth century BC, a colony known as Parthenope ( grc, Παρθενόπη) was established on the Pizzofalcone hill. In the sixth century BC, it was refounded as Neápolis. The city was an important part of Magna Graecia, played a major role in the merging of Greek and Roman society, and was a significant cultural centre under the Romans. Naples served a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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