Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) • Charles IV, King of Spain (1788-1808) • George Washington, 1st President of the United States (1789-1797) Events: • Musée des Beaux-Arts established in Nancy. • Musée du Louvre established in Paris. Deaths: • Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) •…
Month: June 2012
1712
Births: • Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) • Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778) Deaths: • Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712) Music: • Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): La Stravaganza (1712-13) • Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Stabat Mater (1712) Art: • Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712): Library Interior with Still Life (1711-12)…
Francesco Guardi
(1712–1793) Francesco Lazzaro Guardi The artist’s works: Il sacrificio di Isacco 1750s Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Veduta del Canal Grande 1756–1760 Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Veduta del Canal Grande verso Rialto 1756–1760 Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Veduta del Canale della…
1780
Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) Births: • Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) • Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese (1780-1825) Deaths: • Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780) Architecture: • Gads Hill Place, Higham (England) Art: • Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806): Garçon dans une cape bordée de rouge (1780s)…
1721
Births: • Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780) • Pompadour, Madame de (1721-1764) Deaths: • Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Art: • Canaletto (1697-1768): Paesaggio con rovine (c.1721-22) • Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770): Madonna col Bambino (c.1720-25) • Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770): Scipione l’Africano libera Massiva (1719-21) •…
Bernardo Bellotto
(1721–1780) Bernardo Bellotto (Bellotti) The artist’s works: Il Canal Grande verso nord-est verso il Ponte di Rialto c.1738 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne La Piazza della Signoria a Firenze 1740 Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest L’Arno a Firenze 1740 Museum of Fine…
1768
Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) Events: • Royal Academy of Arts founded in London. Births: • Bonaparte, Joseph, King of Spain, Naples and Sicily (1768-1844) Deaths: • Canaletto (1697-1768) Art: • Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806): Le Retour du troupeau (c.1768-70) •…
1697
Births: • Canaletto (1697-1768) Architecture: • St Paul’s Cathedral consecrated in London. Art: • Giordano, Luca (1634-1705): Omaggio a Velázquez (c.1692-1700)
Canaletto
(1697–1768) Giovanni Antonio Canal The artist’s works: Piazza San Marco late 1720s Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Paesaggio con rovine c.1721–1722 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Canal Grande da San Vio, Venezia 1723–1724 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid La Dogana a Venezia c.1724–1730 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna…
1520
Rulers: • Carlos I, King of Spain (1516-1556) • Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1519-1558) • Federico II Gonzaga, 5th Marquis of Mantua (1519-1530) • François I, King of France (1515-1547) • Henry VIII, King of England (1509-1547) • Henry VIII, Lord of Ireland (1509-1542) • Leo X (Giovanni di Lorenzo de’ Medici), Pope…