Deaths: • Geer, Margaretha de (1583-1672) Literature: • Molière (1622-1673): The Learned Women (1672) Art: • Giordano, Luca (1634-1705): Annunciazione (1672) • Murillo, Bartolomé (1617-1682): Cristo cargando la cruz (c.1665-75) • Van der Heyden, Jan (1637-1712): The Stone Bridge (c.1660-72) • Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675): A…
Month: February 2013
1671
Births: • Albinoni, Tomaso (1671-1750) Literature: • Molière (1622-1673): Psyche (1671) • Molière (1622-1673): The Countess of Escarbagnas (1671) • Molière (1622-1673): The Impostures of Scapin (1671) Art: • Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711): Apollo and Aurora (1671) • Murillo, Bartolomé (1617-1682): Cristo cargando la cruz (c.1665-75) • Van…
View of Delft (c.1660-1661)
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) View of Delft (Gezicht op Delft) c.1660–1661 Oil on canvas, 96.5 x 115.7 cm Mauritshuis, The Hague View of Delft today: This is the most famous cityscape of the Dutch seventeenth century. The interplay of light and shade,…
Diana and her nymphs (c.1653-1654)
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) Diana and her nymphs (Diana en haar Nimfen) c.1653–1654 Oil on canvas, 97.8 x 104.6 cm Mauritshuis, The Hague Signed lower left, on the rock, between the dog and the thistle: JVMeer VM in ligature Vermeer is best…
1653
Rulers: • Felipe IV, King of Spain (1621-1665) • Francesco I d’Este, Duke of Modena and Reggio (1629-1658) Deaths: • Gentileschi, Artemisia (1593-c.1653) Art: • Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680): Tritoni con delfini (c.1653) • Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663): Allegoria dell’Astrologia sferica (1650-55) • Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663): La Morte di…
Mistress and Maid (c.1666-1667)
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) Mistress and Maid (Dame en dienstbode) c.1666–1667 Oil on canvas, 90.2 x 78.7 cm Frick Collection, New York Vermeer chose a large canvas for this composition, which presents two women pondering a newly arrived letter. Depicting an interior…
1667
Deaths: • Coppenol, Lieven Willemsz van (1598-1667) • Hofdyck, Corvina van (1602-1667) Art: • Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680): Angelo con il titolo della croce (c.1667-68) • Murillo, Bartolomé (1617-1682): Cristo cargando la cruz (c.1665-75) • Murillo, Bartolomé (1617-1682): Cristo en la cruz (1660-70) •…
1666
Deaths: • Decker, Jeremias de (1609-1666) • Guercino (1591-1666) • Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Literature: • Molière (1622-1673): Le Médecin malgré lui (1666) Art: • Murillo, Bartolomé (1617-1682): Cristo cargando la cruz (c.1665-75) • Murillo, Bartolomé (1617-1682): Cristo en la cruz (1660-70) • Murillo, Bartolomé…
The Lacemaker (1669-1670)
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) The Lacemaker (De kantwerkster) 1669–1670 Oil on canvas transferred to panel, 24 x 21 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris The motif of the lacemaker at work is traditionally a sign of domestic virtue, tinged with religious moralism (the…
1670
Literature: • Molière (1622-1673): The Middle-Class Gentleman (1670) • Molière (1622-1673): The Magnificent Lovers (1670) Art: • Giordano, Luca (1634-1705): La Giustizia disarmata (c.1670) • Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711): Aeneas and the Sibyl (c.1670) • Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711): Hermes Ordering Calypso to Release…