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1640 In Art
Events from the year 1640 in art. Events * Nicolas Poussin completes the first series of ''Seven Sacraments''. * Abraham van Linge begins painting the windows for the chapel of University College, Oxford. * Opening of the iconography studio at the Kremlin Armoury. Paintings *Govert Flinck - ''A Young Archer'' (c.1639-40) *Giovanna Garzoni - ''Still Life with Bowl of Citrons'' *Jacob Jordaens (approximate dates) **'' The King Drinks'' **'' Prometheus Bound'' *Rembrandt **'' Harmen Doomer'' **''Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet'' **''Self-portrait'' *Guido Reni - '' Saint Joseph and the Christ Child'' *Diego Velázquez - ''Mars Resting'' (Prado Museum) Births *June 21 - Abraham Mignon, Dutch flower painter born at Frankfurt (died 1679) *August 2 - Gérard Audran, French engraver of the Audran family (died 1703) * September 11 (or 1641) - Gerard de Lairesse, Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist (died 1711) * September 29 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin (, , ; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a small group of Italian and French collectors. He returned to Paris for a brief period to serve as First Painter to the King under Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu, but soon returned to Rome and resumed his more traditional themes. In his later years he gave growing prominence to the landscape in his paintings. His work is characterized by clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color. Until the 20th century he remained a major inspiration for such classically-oriented artists as Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Paul Cézanne. Details of Poussin's artistic training are somewhat obscure. Around 1612 he traveled to Paris, where he studied under minor masters and completed his earliest surviving works. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diego Velázquez
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (baptized June 6, 1599August 6, 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age. He was an individualistic artist of the Baroque period (c.1600–1750). He began to paint in a precise tenebrist style, later developing a freer manner characterized by bold brushwork. In addition to numerous renditions of scenes of historical and cultural significance, he painted scores of portraits of the Spanish royal family and commoners, culminating in his masterpiece ''Las Meninas'' (1656). Velázquez's paintings became a model for 19th-century realist and impressionist painters. In the 20th century, artists such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, and Francis Bacon paid tribute to Velázquez by re-interpreting some of his most iconic images. Most of his work entered the Spanish royal collection, and by far the best collection is in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, thoug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
September 11
Events Pre-1600 * 9 – The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends: The Roman Empire suffers the greatest defeat of its history and the Rhine is established as the border between the Empire and the so-called barbarians for the next four hundred years. *1185 – Isaac II Angelos kills Stephen Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt that deposes Andronikos I Komnenos and places Isaac on the throne of the Byzantine Empire. * 1297 – Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots jointly led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray defeat the English. *1390 – Lithuanian Civil War (1389–92): The Teutonic Knights begin a five-week siege of Vilnius. * 1541 – Santiago, Chile, is attacked by indigenous warriors, led by Michimalonco, to free eight indigenous chiefs held captive by the Spaniards. *1565 – Ottoman forces retreat from Malta ending the Great Siege of Malta. 1601–1900 *1609 – Henry Hudson arrives on Manhattan Island an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1703 In Art
Events from the year 1703 in art. Events * May – The Cabin of Peter the Great is constructed in three days, by soldiers of the Semyonovsky Regiment. Its wooden walls are painted with red oil to resemble brick, and the rooms come to be known as the "red chambers". * Pierre Le Gros the Younger completes the tomb of Cardinal Girolamo Casanate in the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, Rome. Paintings * Nicolas de Largillière – ''La belle Strasbourgeoise'' * Sebastiano Ricci – '' Rape of the Sabine Women'' * Adriaen van der Werff – ''Jesus Laid in the Tomb'' * Lancelot Volders – Group portrait of the Leuven justices Births * February 18 – Corrado Giaquinto, Italian Rococo painter (died 1765) * September 29 – François Boucher, French Rococo painter, engraver and designer (died 1770) * ''date unknown'' ** Sir Henry Cheere, 1st Baronet, English sculptor (died 1781) ** Ignazio Hugford, or Ignatius Heckford, Florentine painter (died 1778) ** Gaetano Sabatini, Ita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its Metropolitan France, metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin (island), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Audran
Gérard Audran (or Girard Audran) (2 August 164026 July 1703), was a French engraver of the Audran family, the third son of Claude Audran. Life He was born in Lyon and was taught the first principles of design and engraving by his father. Following the example of his brother, he went to Paris to perfect himself in his art. In 1666, he engraved for Le Brun ''Constantines Battle with Laxentius'', his ''Triumph'', and the ''Stoning of Stephen'', which gave great satisfaction to the painter, and placed Audran in the very first rank of engravers at Paris. The next year he set out for Rome, where he resided three years, and engraved several fine plates. He is reputed to have worked for or trained with Carlo Maratta. That great patron of the arts, J. B. Colbert, was so struck with Audran's works that he persuaded Louis XIV to recall him to Paris. On his return, Audran applied himself assiduously to engraving, and was appointed ''engraver to the king'', from whom he received great ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August 2
Events Pre-1600 *338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean. *216 BC – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae. *49 BC – Caesar, who marched to Spain earlier in the year leaving Marcus Antonius in charge of Italy, defeats Pompey's general Afranius and Petreius in Ilerda (Lerida) north of the Ebro river. * 461 – Majorian is arrested near Tortona (northern Italy) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor. * 932 – After a two-year siege, the city of Toledo, in Spain, surrenders to the forces of the Caliph of Córdoba Abd al-Rahman III, assuming an important victory in his campaign to subjugate the Central March. * 1274 – Edward I of England returns from the Ninth Crusade and is crowned King seventeen days later. * 1343 &nda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1679 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1679, art Events from the year 1679 in art. Events * (unknown) Works * François de Troy – Portrait of Nils Bielke * Cornelius Jansen (attributed) – Memorial painting of Isaac Bargrave in Canterbury Cathedral * Jan van Kessel – ''Portrait of a family in a garden'' Publications *First part of ''Jieziyuan Huazhuan'' ("Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden"), a manual on landscape painting, published in China Births *January 27 – Jean-François de Troy, French painter (died 1752) *April 2 - Marcellus Laroon the Younger, English painter and draughtsman (died 1772) * April 24 - Francesco Mancini, Italian painter (died 1758) *''date unknown'' ** Elias Baeck, German painter and engraver (died 1747) ** Giuseppe Dallamano, Italian painter of quadratura in Turin (died 1758) ** Francesco Fernandi, Italian painter (died 1740) Deaths *January 23 – Girolamo Forabosco, Italian painter (born 1605) *January 29 – Carlo Ceresa, Italian painter of portraitures, altarp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankfurt
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its namesake Main River, it forms a continuous conurbation with the neighboring city of Offenbach am Main and its urban area has a population of over 2.3 million. The city is the heart of the larger Rhine-Main metropolitan region, which has a population of more than 5.6 million and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region. Frankfurt's central business district, the Bankenviertel, lies about northwest of the geographic center of the EU at Gadheim, Lower Franconia. Like France and Franconia, the city is named after the Franks. Frankfurt is the largest city in the Rhine Franconian dialect area. Frankfurt was a city state, the Free City of Frankfurt, for nearly five centuries, and was one of the most import ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netherlands
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Abraham Mignon
Abraham Mignon or Minjon (21 June 164027 March 1679), was a still life painter.Abraham Mignon at the He is known for his flower pieces, still lifes with fruit, still lifes in forests or grottoes, still lifes of game and fish as well as his garland paintings.Abraham Mignon, ''Interior of a grotto with a rock-pool, frogs, salamanders and a bird's nest'' at Sotheby's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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