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1677 In Art
Events from the year 1677 in art. Events *Mosaics are created in St Mark's Basilica, Venice, from cartoons by Giovanni Antonio Fumiani. Paintings * Claude Lorrain paints ''The Voyage of Jacob'' in his late Roman period. * Thomas Flatman paints miniature portraits. * Pietro Giarguzzi - ''The Holy Trinity crowning the Blessed Virgin Mary'' (fresco) at San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane. * Abraham Hondius - ''The Frozen Thames'', a view over the Thames to the old London Bridge during the Little Ice Age. * Pieter de Hooch - '' A Musical Party in a Courtyard''. * Charles Le Brun - '' Apotheose of Louis XIV''. Births * October 23 – Giuseppe Antonio Petrini, painter (died 1755/1759) *November 29 – Guillaume Coustou the Elder, French sculptor and academician (died 1746) *''date unknown'' ** Pompeo Aldrovandini, Italian painter (died 1735) **Lovia Casalina, Italian woman portrait-painter (died 1702) ** Louis Du Guernier, French engraver (died 1716) **Abraham Rademaker, Dutch painte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Mark's Basilica
The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark ( it, Basilica Cattedrale Patriarcale di San Marco), commonly known as St Mark's Basilica ( it, Basilica di San Marco; vec, Baxéłega de San Marco), is the cathedral church of the Catholic Church, Catholic Patriarchate of Venice; it became the episcopal seat of the Patriarch of Venice in 1807, replacing the earlier cathedral of San Pietro di Castello (church), San Pietro di Castello. It is dedicated to and holds the Relic#Christianity, relics of Mark the Evangelist, Saint Mark the Evangelist, the patron saint of the city. The church is located on the eastern end of Piazza San Marco, Saint Mark's Square, the former political and religious centre of the Republic of Venice, and is attached to the Doge's Palace. Prior to the Fall of the Republic of Venice, fall of the republic in 1797, it was the chapel of the Doge of Venice, Doge and was subject to his jurisdiction, with the concurrence of the procurators of Saint Mark ''de supra' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October 23
Events Pre-1600 *4004 BC – James Ussher's proposed creation date of the world according to the Bible. *42 BC – Liberators' civil war: Mark Antony and Octavian decisively defeat an army under Brutus in the second part of the Battle of Philippi, with Brutus committing suicide and ending the civil war. * 425 – Valentinian III is elevated as Roman emperor at the age of six. * 502 – The ''Synodus Palmaris'', called by Gothic king Theoderic, absolves Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius. *1086 – Spanish ''Reconquista'': At the Battle of Sagrajas, the Almoravids defeats the Castilians, but are unable to take advantage of their victory. * 1157 – The Battle of Grathe Heath ends the Danish Civil War. * 1295 – The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France against England is signed in Paris. 1601–1900 *1641 – Irish Catholic gentry from Ulster attempt to seize control of Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1716 In Art
Events from the year 1716 in art. Events * A sculpture park begins to be established in the Summer Garden at Saint Petersburg, Russia. Paintings * Sir Godfrey Kneller – Portrait of Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Princess of Wales * James Thornhill – hall ceiling at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire * Adriaen van der Werff – '' The Judgement of Paris'' (approximate date) Births * March 19 – Guillaume Coustou the Younger, painter (died 1777) * March 25 – Alexei Antropov, Russian barocco painter (died 1795) * April 5 – Jeremiah Theus, Swiss-born American painter, primarily of portraits (died 1774) * June 18 – Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (died 1809) * December 1 – Étienne Maurice Falconet, French Rococo sculptor (died 1791) * ''date unknown'' ** Fedor Leontyevich Argunov, Russian painter (died 1754) ** Yosa Buson, Japanese poet and painter from the Edo period (died 1784) ** Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty, French painter and printmaker (died 1785) ** Luis Egidio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Du Guernier
Louis Du Guernier (1677–1716), also anglicized as Lewis Du Guernier, was a Franco-English engraver. Born in Paris in 1677, Louis was probably a descendant of the well-known French artists of the same name. He was a pupil of Louis de Châtillon, and came to England in 1708. He was a member of the academy in Great Queen Street and gained considerable skill as a designer, etcher, and engraver there. He was eventually chosen one of the directors, and remained so until he died. He was specially employed on small historical subjects, as illustrations to books and plays. In 1714 he was associated with Claude du Bosc in engraving the battles of the Duke of Marlborough, as he was with the same partner in providing six plates for the expanded edition of The Rape of the Lock that year. Among others engraved by him were portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Queensberry after Godfrey Kneller, Dr. Isaac Barrow, Thomas Otway, and others; also an engraving of "Lot and his Daughters" after Carav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1702 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1702, art Events from the year 1702 in art. Events * Completion of the Nyatapola Temple in Nepal by King Bhupatindra Malla. Paintings * Ludolf Bakhuizen – ''The Battle of Vigo Bay'' * Ogata Kōrin – '' Irises'' * Sebastiano Ricci ** ''Allegory of the princely virtues'' ( Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna) ** ''Assumption of the Virgin'' ( Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden) Births * July 31 – Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter (died 1768) * August 15 – Francesco Zuccarelli, painter, elected to the Venetian Academy in 1763 (died 1788) * December 22 – Jean-Étienne Liotard, Swiss-French painter (died 1789) * ''date unknown'' ** Matthijs Accama, Dutch historical and emblematical subjects painter (died 1783) ** Joseph Aved, also called le Camelot (The Hawker) and Avet le Batave (The Dutch Avet), French Rococo portraitist (died 1766) ** Pierre-Alexandre Aveline, French engraver, portraitist, illustrator, and printmaker (died 1760) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovia Casalina
Lucia Casalini Torelli (1677–1762) was an Italian painter, active in Bologna. The wife of painter Felice Torelli (and, through him, sister-in-law of violinist and composer Giuseppe Torelli), she was the mother of painter Stefano Torelli. She was born in Bologna, where she trained under Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole. Life and works Daughter of Antonio Casalini and Antonia Bandiera, she began studying painting with her cousin, Carlo Casalini. However at the age of thirteen she entered the atelier of the prominent Bolognese painter, Giovanni Gioseffo Dal Sole. Here she met her future husband, also a successful painter Felice Torelli, who was regularly sent by the master to the young girl's home to bring her drawings to copy. The two married in 1701, and soon opened their own studio with students. They had seven children, two of whom, Anna and Stefano, became artists. In 1706, Felice Torelli was one of the founders of the Accademia Clementina; Lucia was elected an honorary member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1735 In Art
Events from the year 1735 in art. Events * The Chandos Mausoleum is constructed for James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos. * Charles-Joseph Natoire carries out the first of his tapestry cartoons for the series ''History of Don Quixote''. * Guillaume Coustou the Younger is awarded the Prix de Rome.François Souchal, ''Les frères Coustou'' (Paris) 1980. * The ballad opera called ''Flora, or Hob in the Well'' went down in recorded history as the first opera of any kind to be produced in North America. (Feb 18, 1735 in Charleston, S.C.) Paintings * Jacopo Amigoni ** '' Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach'' ** ''Frederick, Prince of Wales'' * Canaletto ** ''The Bucintoro Returning to the Molo'' (1730–1735) (Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, England) ** ''The Molo, Venice'' (approximate date) (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas) ** ''A Regatta on the Grand Canal'' (1730–1735) (Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, England) ** ''Venice: A Regatta on the Grand Canal'' (National Galle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pompeo Aldrovandini
Pompeo Aldrovandini (1677–1735) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Bologna to a family of painters, he mainly learned from his cousin Tommaso Aldrovandini and was employed much in the decoration of churches, palaces, and theatres of Dresden, Prague, and Vienna. He died at Rome. References * 1677 births 1735 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Painters from Bologna Italian Baroque painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1746 In Art
Events from the year 1746 in art. Events *The Venetian painter Canaletto moves to London, beginning a nine-year stay in England to be closer to his market. *The French philosopher Charles Batteux publishes ''Les beaux-arts réduits à un même principe'' in Paris, putting forward for the first time the idea of ''les beaux arts'', the fine arts. Paintings * Canaletto **''A Most Beautiful View of the City of London Taken Through One of the Centres of the Arches of the New Bridge at Westminster'' ( Alnwick Castle, Northumberland) **'' Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames'' (c.1746-47; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut) *Elias Gottlob Haussmann – ''Johann Sebastian Bach'' * Thomas Hudson – Theodore Jacobsen' *John Smybert – '' Sir William Pepperrell, Bt'' *Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - St. Catherine of Siena Births * March 9 – François-Nicolas Delaistre, French sculptor (died 1832) * March 22 – Gerard van Spaendonck, Dutc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sculpture
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramic art, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or Molding (process), moulded or Casting, cast. Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works (other than pottery) from ancient cultures, though conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely. However, most ancient sculpture was brightly painted, ... [...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] |
Guillaume Coustou The Elder
Guillaume Coustou the Elder (29 November 1677, Lyon – 22 February 1746, Paris) was a French sculptor of the Baroque and Louis XIV style. He was a royal sculptor for Louis XIV and Louis XV and became Director of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1735. He is best known for his monumental statues of horses made for the Chateau of Marly, whose replicas now stand in the Place de la Concorde in Paris. Life Coustou was a member of a family of famous sculptors; his uncle, Antoine Coysevox, was a royal sculptor; his elder brother, Nicolas Coustou was a sculptor, and his son Guillaume Coustou the Younger also become a noted royal sculptor. Like his older brother, he won the (Prix de Rome) of the Royal Academy which entitled him to study for four years at the French Academy in Rome. However, he refused to accept the discipline of the Academy, gave up his studies, set out to make his own career as an artist. He worked for a time in the atelier of the painter Pierre Legro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
