Art: • Giordano, Luca (1634-1705): Il rapimento di Elena di Troia (c.1685-90) • Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711): Helen arriving in Troy (1685-90)
Month: January 2013
1685
Births: • Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) Art: • Giordano, Luca (1634-1705): Adorazione dei Magi (c.1683-85) • Giordano, Luca (1634-1705): Il rapimento di Elena di Troia (c.1685-90) • Giordano, Luca (1634-1705): La fuga in Egitto (c.1680-85) • Giordano, Luca (1634-1705): Trasfigurazione…
1684
Births: • Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Deaths: • Corneille, Pierre (1606-1684) Art: • Giordano, Luca (1634-1705): Adorazione dei Magi (c.1683-85) • Giordano, Luca (1634-1705): La fuga in Egitto (c.1680-85) • Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711): Abraham receiving the three angels of the Lord…
1683
Events: • The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology opens in Oxford. Art: • Giordano, Luca (1634-1705): Adorazione dei Magi (c.1683-85) • Giordano, Luca (1634-1705): La fuga in Egitto (c.1680-85) • Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711): Abraham receiving the three angels of the Lord (1680-85)
1681
Deaths: • Calderón de la Barca, Pedro (1600-1681) • Rihel, Frederick (1621-1681) • Sustermans, Justus (1597-1681) Architecture: • Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute consecrated in Venice. Art: • Giordano, Luca (1634-1705): La fuga in Egitto (c.1680-85) • Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711): Abraham…
1679
Deaths: • Barberini, Francesco (1597-1679) Art: • Giordano, Luca (1634-1705): Diana ed Endimione (c.1675-80) • Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711): Cleopatra’s Banquet (c.1675-80) • Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711): Hagar in the Desert (1675-80)
1674
Deaths: • Milton, John (1608-1674) • Tulp, Nicolaes (1593-1674) Art: • Murillo, Bartolomé (1617-1682): Cristo cargando la cruz (c.1665-75) • Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675): Girl with a Flute (c.1669-75) • Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675): Young Woman seated at a Virginal (c.1672-75)
1620
Rulers: • James I, King of England and Ireland (1603-1625) • James VI, King of Scotland (1567-1625) Art: • Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680): Nudo maschile seduto (c.1618-24) • Brueghel, Jan the Younger (1601-1678): A Basket of Flowers (1620s) • Gentileschi, Artemisia…
1615
Rulers: • James I, King of England and Ireland (1603-1625) • James VI, King of Scotland (1567-1625) Births: • Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Art: • Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625): Paradise Landscape (c.1613-15) • Gentileschi, Artemisia (1593-c.1653): Autoritratto come martire (c.1615) •…
1611
Rulers: • James I, King of England and Ireland (1603-1625) • James VI, King of Scotland (1567-1625) Literature: • Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): The Winter’s Tale (1611) Art: • Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625): The Garden of Eden (c.1610-12) • El Greco (1541-1614): Cristo en…