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1744 In Art
Events from the year 1744 in art. Events * Works * Bernardo Bellotto – ''Vaprio d'Adda'' (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) * Canaletto (British Royal Collection) ** ''Entrance to the Grand Canal, looking east'' ** ''Piazza S. Marco, looking south'' ** ''Piazza S. Marco, looking west'' * Charles-Michel-Ange Challe – ''Sleeping Diana'' * Georg Desmarées – Portrait of Franz Joachim Beich * Thomas Hudson – Portrait of King George II * Jean-Étienne Liotard – '' The Chocolate Girl'' (approximate date) * Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ** ''The Banquet of Cleopatra'' ( National Gallery of Victoria) ** Ceiling paintings in Würzburg Residence ** ''Translation of the House of Loreto'' (frescos in Church of the Scalzi (Venice); destroyed 1915 (approximate completion date)) ** Decorations for Villa Cordellini (Montecchio Maggiore) * Christian Friedrich Zincke – Miniature portrait of Sir Robert Walpole in Garter robes Births * February 13 – David Allan, Scottish pain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardo Bellotto
Bernardo Bellotto (c. 1721/2 or 30 January 172117 November 1780), was an Italian urban landscape painter or ''vedutista'', and printmaker in etching famous for his ''vedute'' of European cities – Dresden, Vienna, Turin, and Warsaw. He was the student and nephew of the renowned Giovanni Antonio Canal Canaletto and sometimes used the latter's illustrious name, signing himself as Bernardo Canaletto. In Germany and Poland, Bellotto called himself by his uncle's name, Canaletto. This caused some confusion, however Bellotto’s work is more sombre in color than Canaletto's and his depiction of clouds and shadows brings him closer to Dutch painting. Bellotto's style was characterized by elaborate representation of architectural and natural vistas, and by the specific quality of each place's lighting. It is plausible that Bellotto, and other Venetian masters of ''vedute'', may have used the camera obscura in order to achieve superior precision of urban views. Life Bellotto was b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scalzi (Venice)
Santa Maria di Nazareth is a Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Carmelite church in Venice, northern Italy. It is also called Church of the Scalzi () being the seat in the city of the Discalced Carmelites religious order ( in Italian means 'barefoot'). Located in the sestiere of Cannaregio, near Venezia Santa Lucia railway station, it was built in the mid-17th century to the designs of Baldassarre Longhena and completed in the last decades of that century. Exterior The facade in Venetian Late Baroque style, was financed by the aristocrat Gerolamo Cavazza, and erected by Giuseppe Sardi, from 1672 to 1680. The four first-floor statues, the statue of the Virgin and Child, and the statues of Saint Catherine of Siena and St Thomas Aquinas are sculpted by Bernardo Falconi. Santa Maria degli Scalzi (Venice) - San Bartolomeo (apostolo) di Bernardo Falconi.jpg, Bartholomew the Apostle by Bernardo Falconi Campanile of Santa Maria di Nazareth (Venezia).jpg, Campanile Interior The first chap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October 25
Events Pre-1600 * 285 (or 286) – Execution of Saints Crispin and Crispinian during the reign of Diocletian, now the patron saints of leather workers, curriers, and shoemakers. * 473 – Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as ''Caesar'' of the East Roman Empire. * 1147 – Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum. * 1147 – ''Reconquista'': After a siege of four months, crusader knights reconquer Lisbon. * 1415 – Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England, with his lightly armoured infantry and archers, defeats the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt. 1601–1900 * 1616 – Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast. *1747 – War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral Edward Hawke defeats the French at the Second Battle of Cape Fini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1819 In Art
Events in the year 1819 in Art. Events * November - The Museo del Prado opens to the public as the Royal Museum of Paintings and Sculptures in Madrid. * Francisco Goya begins the series of "Black Paintings", working directly onto the walls of his dining and sitting rooms at his home, Quinta del Sordo, near Madrid. * The Liverpool Royal Institution in England acquires 37 paintings from the collection of William Roscoe, who has to sell his collection following the failure of his banking business, nucleus of what becomes the Walker Art Gallery collection. Works * Washington Allston – ''Florimell's Flight'' * John Constable – ''The Gathering Storm'' * Marie Ellenrieder – '' Self-portrait as a painter'' * Caspar David Friedrich – '' On a Sailing Ship'' * Théodore Géricault – ''The Raft of the Medusa'' (''Le Radeau de la Méduse'') * Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – ''Pygmalion and Galatea'' * Francisco Goya ** ''The Madhouse'' ** ''A Procession of Flagellants'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Moser
Mary Moser (27 October 1744 – 2 May 1819) was an English painter and one of the most celebrated female artists of 18th-century Britain. One of only two female founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768 (along with Angelica Kauffman), Moser painted portraits but is particularly noted for her depictions of flowers. Life and career London-born Moser was trained by her Swiss-born artist and enameller father George Michael Moser (1706–1783), George III's own drawing master. Her talents were evident at an early age: she won her first Society of Arts medal at 14, and regularly exhibited flower pieces, and occasional history paintings, at the Society of Artists of Great Britain. Ten years later, however, her thirst for professional recognition led her to join with 35 other artists (including her father) in forming the Royal Academy, and, with Angelica Kauffman, she took an active role in proceedings. In a group portrait by Johan Zoffany, ''The Academicians of the Royal Acad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October 27
Events Pre-1600 * 312 – Constantine is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross. * 1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam. * 1524 – French troops lay siege to Pavia. * 1553 – Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva. 1601–1900 * 1644 – Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War. * 1682 – Philadelphia is founded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. * 1775 – King George III expands on his Proclamation of Rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies in his speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament. * 1795 – The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S. * 1806 – The French Army under Napoleon enters Berlin following the Prussian defeat at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt. * 1810 – United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida. * 1838 &ndas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1816 In Art
Events in the year 1816 in Art. Events * The Elgin Marbles are purchased by the British government from Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, for the British Museum in London. * The Fitzwilliam Museum is founded by the bequest of the art collection of the 7th Viscount FitzWilliam to the University of Cambridge in England. * In Paris, the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (founded in 1648) is merged with the Académie de musique (1669) and the Académie royale d'architecture (1671) to form the Académie des beaux-arts. *''Penance'' from Nicholas Poussin's first of two ''Seven Sacraments'' painting cycles owned by the Duke of Rutland is destroyed by fire at Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire, England. Works * '' Cádiz Memorial'' (London) * Augustus Wall Callcott – ''The Entrance to the Pool of London'' * John James Chalon – '' Napoleon on board the Bellerophon'' * John Constable – ''Wivenhoe Park'' * Pavel Đurković – Portrait of Vuk Karadžić * Francisco Goya ** ''The D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François-Guillaume Ménageot
François-Guillaume Ménageot (1744–1816) was a French painter of religious and French historical scenes. A pupil of François Boucher (1703–1770), he went on to win the Grand Prix de Rome and become a director of the French Academy in Rome, an Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, academician and a member of the Institute. Biography Ménageot was born in London, the son of Augustin Ménageot (d 1784), an art dealer and adviser to Denis Diderot. François-Guillaume trained under first Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays, then Joseph-Marie Vien, and finally François Boucher (1703–1770), in his early works adopting the latter's style and use of warm, light colours. His 1766 ''Tomyris Plunging the Head of Cyrus the Great, Cyrus into a Bowl of Blood'' (Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts) won the Prix de Rome and a stay at the French Academy in Rome from 1769 to 1774. The Académie Royale in Paris approved François-Guillaume as a history painter in 1777, and he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
July 9
Events Pre-1600 *118 – Hadrian, who became emperor a year previously on Trajan's death, makes his entry into Rome. * 381 – The end of the First Council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople by the Roman Emperor Theodosius I. * 491 – Odoacer makes a night assault with his Heruli guardsmen, engaging Theoderic the Great in Ad Pinetam. Both sides suffer heavy losses, but in the end Theodoric forces Odoacer back into Ravenna. * 551 – A major earthquake strikes Beirut, triggering a devastating tsunami that affected the coastal towns of Byzantine Phoenicia, causing thousands of deaths. * 660 – Korean forces under general Kim Yu-sin of Silla defeat the army of Baekje in the Battle of Hwangsanbeol. * 869 – The 8.4–9.0 Sanriku earthquake strikes the area around Sendai in northern Honshu, Japan. Inundation from the tsunami extended several kilometers inland. * 969 – The Fatimid general Jawhar leads the Friday prayer in Fustat i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1796 In Art
Events from the year 1796 in art. Events * Printing by lithography is invented by Alois Senefelder in Bohemia. Works * Henry Fuseli – '' The Night-Hag visiting the Lapland Witches'' * Anton Graff – '' George Leopold Gogel '' * Antoine-Jean Gros – '' Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole'' * Hugh Douglas Hamilton – '' Lord Edward Fitzgerald'' * Thomas Lawrence – ''The Children of John Julius Angerstein'' * Henry Raeburn – '' Rev. Alexander Carlyle'' * Edward Savage – '' The Washington Family'' * Gilbert Stuart – Lansdowne portrait of George Washington * J. M. W. Turner – '' Fishermen at Sea'' (his first oil painting to be exhibited at the Royal Academy) * Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun - '' Portrait of Countess Yekaterina von Engelhardt'' Births * February 3 – Jean-Baptiste Madou, Belgian painter and lithographer (died 1877) * February 5 – Pieter Godfried Bertichen, Dutch painter and lithographer (died 1856) * May 24 – Étienne-Jules Ramey, French sculptor and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Allan (painter)
David Allan (13 February 1744 – 6 August 1796) was a Scottish painter, limner, and illustrator, best known for historical subjects and genre works. Life He was born in Alloa in central Scotland. On leaving Foulis's Academy of painting at Glasgow (1762), after seven years' successful study, he obtained the patronage of Charles Cathcart, 9th Lord Cathcart and of Erskine of Mar, on whose estate he had been born. In 1764 Erskine made it possible for Allan to travel to Rome. He remained in Italy until 1777, studying under Gavin Hamilton and copying the old masters. In 1771 Allan sent two history paintings, ''Pompey the Great after his Defeat'' and ''Cleopatra Weeping Over the Ashes of Mark Antony'' (both now lost) to the exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. In 1773, still in Rome, his ''Hector’s Farewell from Andromache'' won the Accademia di San Luca's gold medal. Among the original works which he then painted was the ''Origin of Portraiture'', now in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
February 13
Events Pre-1600 * 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome. *1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th. *1462 – The Treaty of Westminster is finalised between Edward IV of England and the Scottish Lord of the Isles. * 1503 – Challenge of Barletta: Tournament between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta. *1542 – Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery. 1601–1900 *1633 – Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition. *1642 – The Clergy Act becomes law, excluding bishops of the Church of England from serving in the House of Lords. * 1660 – With the accession of young Charles XI of Sweden, his regents begin negotiations to end the Second Northern War. *1689 – William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England. *1692 – Massacre of Gle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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