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1555 In Art
Events from the year 1555 in art. Events * Villa Giulia is completed, which now houses the National Etruscan Museum's collection of Etruscan civilization art and artifacts Paintings * Sofonisba Anguissola - ''Lucia, Minerva and Europa Anguissola Playing Chess'' * Cristofano Gherardi - '' Transfiguration'' (Cortona) * c. 1555 – Titian ** ''Venus with a Mirror'' ** '' Venus and Musician'' (Museo del Prado's second version) *c.1555 - Paolo Veronese - ''Venus Disarming Cupid'' * c. 1555-1560 – Illuminated tughra of Sultan Suleiman, from Istanbul, Turkey (now in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) Births *April 21 – Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (died 1619) *''date unknown'' **Carlo Antonio Procaccini, Italian painter of still lifes and landscapes (died ''unknown'') **Dong Qichang, Chinese painter, scholar, calligrapher, and art theorist of the later period of the Ming dynasty (died 1636) ** Aegidius Sadeler I, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family (died 1609) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villa Giulia
The Villa Giulia is a villa in Rome, Italy. It was built by Pope Julius III in 1551–1553 on what was then the edge of the city. Today it is publicly owned, and houses the Museo Nazionale Etrusco, a collection of Etruscan art and artifacts. History Location The villa was built in an area of Rome known as the 'Vigna Vecchia' (which was once against the city walls), lying on the slopes of ''Monte Parioli'', as a 'Villa Suburbana' and a place of repose. Design The pope, a highly literate connoisseur of the arts, assigned the initial design of the building to Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola in 1551–1553. The nymphaeum and other garden structures, however, were designed by Bartolomeo Ammanati, all under the supervision of Giorgio Vasari. Michelangelo also worked there. Pope Julius took a direct interest in the villa's design and decor and spent vast amounts of money on enhancing its beauties. Villa Giulia became one of the most delicate examples of Mannerist architecture. Only a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Museum Of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park on Manhattan's Upper East Side, is by area one of the world's largest art museums. The first portion of the approximately building was built in 1880. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from medieval Europe. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 with its mission to bring art and art education to the American people. The museum's permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings, and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence
Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico anno 2013, datISTAT/ref> Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered by many academics to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance, becoming a major artistic, cultural, commercial, political, economic and financial center. During this time, Florence rose to a position of enormous influence in Italy, Europe, and beyond. Its turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy (established in 1861). The Florentine dialect forms the base of Standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Tempesta
Antonio Tempesta, also called il Tempestino (1555 – 5 August 1630), was an Italian painter and engraver, whose art acted as a point of connection between Baroque Rome and the culture of Antwerp. Much of his work depicts major battles and historical figures. Life He was born and trained in Florence and painted in a variety of styles, influenced to some degree by "Counter-''Maniera''" or Counter-Mannerism. He enrolled in the Florentine Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in 1576. He was a pupil of Santi di Tito, then of the Flemish painter Joannes Stradanus. He was part of the large team of artists working under Giorgio Vasari on the interior decoration of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. His favourite subjects were battles, cavalcades, and processions. He relocated to Rome, where he associated with artists from the Habsburg Netherlands, which may have led to his facility with landscape painting. Among his followers was Marzio di Colantonio. Commissions Tempesta and the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1609 In Art
Events from the year 1609 in art. Events * January 9 – Letters patent issued relating to accommodation and workshops for artists in the Louvre Palace mezzanine in Paris. * Hans Krumpper becomes chief sculptor to the Bavarian court under Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria. * Mesrop of Khizan paints a Gospel which ends up in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Paintings Image:Michelangelo Caravaggio 006.jpg, Caravaggio, ''The Raising of Lazarus'' Image:Michelangelo Caravaggio 004.jpg, Caravaggio, '' Adoration of the Shepherds'' Image:Michelangelo Caravaggio 035.jpg, Caravaggio, ''Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence'' Image:CaravaggioSalomeMadrid.jpg, Caravaggio, '' Salome with the Head of John the Baptist'' File:Peter_Paul_Rubens_Peter_Paul_Rubens_-_The_Artist_and_His_First_Wife,_Isabella_Brant,_in_the_Honeysuckle_Bower.jpg, Rubens, '' Honeysuckle Bower'' *Caravaggio **''The Raising of Lazarus'' **'' Adoration of the Shepherds'' **''Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadeler Family
The Sadeler family were the largest, and probably the most successful of the dynasties of Flemish engravers that were dominant in Northern European printmaking in the later 16th and 17th centuries, as both artists and publishers. As with other dynasties such as the Wierixes and Van de Passe family, the style of family members is very similar, and their work often hard to tell apart in the absence of a signature or date, or evidence of location. Altogether at least ten Sadelers worked as engravers, in the Spanish Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Bohemia and Austria. Much of their best work was high quality reproductive prints of contemporary artists such as Bartholomeus Spranger (Aegidius II) or the Venetian Bassano family (Jan I and Rafael I), that were important in spreading the reputation and style of these artists. The family The Sadelers were descended from "chasers," engravers of armour, from Aalst. Jan de Saeyelleer or Sadeleer had three sons, all usually called "Sad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1636 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1636, art Events from the year 1636 in art. Events * (unknown) Paintings * Orazio Gentileschi - ''Allegory of Peace and the Arts'' (ceiling for The Queen's House, Greenwich; now at Marlborough House, London) * Nicolas Poussin **'' A Dance to the Music of Time'' (''La Danse des Saisons''; 1634-36) **''The Triumph of Pan'' and ''The Triumph of Bacchus'' (decoration of Cardinal Richelieu's château) (1635-36) * Rembrandt **''Belshazzar's Feast'' (1635-36) **''The Blinding of Samson'' (using chiaroscuro) **'' Susanna'' ** Danae * Peter Paul Rubens **''An Autumn Landscape with a View of Het Steen in the Early Morning'' **''Hercules' Dog Discovers Purple Dye'' (sketch; approximate date) **'' The Judgement of Paris'' (first version; approximate date) * Anthony van Dyck - ''Charles I in Three Positions'' (1635-36) Births *March - Lancelot Volders, Flemish portrait painter (died 1723) *November - Adriaen van de Velde, Dutch animal and landscape painter (died 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ming Dynasty
The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol Empire, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last orthodox dynasty of China ruled by the Han Chinese, Han people, the majority ethnic group in China. Although the primary capital of Beijing fell in 1644 to a rebellion led by Li Zicheng (who established the short-lived Shun dynasty), numerous rump state, rump regimes ruled by remnants of the House of Zhu, Ming imperial family—collectively called the Southern Ming—survived until 1662. The Ming dynasty's founder, the Hongwu Emperor (r. 1368–1398), attempted to create a society of self-sufficient rural communities ordered in a rigid, immobile system that would guarantee and support a permanent class of soldiers for his dynasty: the empire's standing army exceeded one million troops and the naval history of China, navy's dockyards in Nanjin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calligrapher
Calligraphy (from el, link=y, καλλιγραφία) is a visual art related to writing. It is the design and execution of lettering with a pen, ink brush, or other writing instrument. Contemporary calligraphic practice can be defined as "the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious, and skillful manner". Modern calligraphy ranges from functional inscriptions and designs to fine-art pieces where the letters may or may not be readable. Classical calligraphy differs from type design and non-classical hand-lettering, though a calligrapher may practice both. CD-ROM Calligraphy continues to flourish in the forms of wedding invitations and event invitations, font design and typography, original hand-lettered logo design, religious art, announcements, graphic design and commissioned calligraphic art, cut stone inscriptions, and memorial documents. It is also used for props and moving images for film and television, and also for testimonials, birth and death certif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dong Qichang
Dong Qichang (; courtesy name Xuanzai (玄宰); 1555–1636), was a Chinese painter, calligrapher, politician, and art theorist of the later period of the Ming dynasty. Life as a scholar and calligrapher Dong Qichang was a native of Hua Ting (located in modern-day Shanghai), the son of a teacher and somewhat precocious as a child. At 12 he passed the prefectural Civil service entrance examination and won a coveted spot at the prefectural Government school. He first took the imperial civil service exam at seventeen, but placed second to a cousin because his calligraphy was clumsy. This led him to train until he became a noted calligrapher. Once this occurred he rose up the ranks of the imperial service passing the highest level at the age of 35. He rose to an official position with the Ministry of Rites. His positions in the bureaucracy were not without controversy. In 1605 he was giving the exam when the candidates demonstrated against him causing his temporary retirement. In ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Antonio Procaccini
Carlo Antonio Procaccini (born 1555) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period. He was the third son of Ercole, the brother of Camillo and Giulio Cesare the elder, and father of Ercole Procaccini the Younger (1605–1675). He was born at Bologna and initially trained by his father, though he excelled in painting landscapes and still-lifes with flowers and fruit, mainly in Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h .... References * 1555 births 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Milan Italian Renaissance painters Mannerist painters Italian still life painters Year of death unknown {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
