Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) Art: • Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788): Seashore with Fishermen (1781-82) • Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788): Tristram and Fox (c.1775-85) • Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793): Regata sul Canal Grande (1780-93) • Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792): Portrait of Lord Donounghmore (1780-90)
Category: 18th Century
1777
Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) Births: • Clary, Désirée (1777-1860) Art: • Canova, Antonio (1757-1822): Dedalo e Icaro (1777-79) • Canova, Antonio (1757-1822): Orfeo (1777) • Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806): Le bluff de l’aveugle (c.1775-80) • Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806): Les marionnettes (1775-78) •…
1774
Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) Music: • Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787): Iphigénie en Aulide (1774) • Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778): Daphnis et Chloè (1774-76) Art: • Goya, Francisco (1746-1828): Juego de niños: El paso o el marro (c.1770-80) • Guardi,…
1772
Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) Births: • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) Architecture: • Place de la Concorde (Paris) Art: • Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806): Portrait d’une jeune dame (c.1770-72) • Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788): The Artist’s Daughter Margaret (c.1772)…
1771
Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) Births: • Clary, Julie (1771-1845) • Gros, Antoine-Jean (1771-1835) • Scott, Walter (1771-1832) Art: • Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806): Portrait d’une jeune dame (c.1770-72) • Goya, Francisco (1746-1828): Juego de niños: El…
1769
Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) Births: • Napoléon I (1769-1821) • Sureda y Miserol, Bartolomé (1769-1850) • Wellesley, Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) Art: • Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806): Dame au chien (c.1769) • Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806): Jérôme de…
1766
Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) Art: • Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793): Veduta dell’Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore (1765-75)
1763
Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) Events: • Boulevard Montmartre constructed in Paris. Births: • Beauharnais, Joséphine de (1763-1814) • Charles XIV John, King of Sweden and Norway (1763-1844) • Waldstein, Mariana (1763-1808) Art: • Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780): Veduta…
1761
Art: • Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780): Nymphenburg Palace, Munich (c.1761) • Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780): Veduta di Monaco di Baviera (c.1761) • Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780): Veduta di Pirna (1755-65) • Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780): Vista di Vienna dal Belvedere (1758-61) • Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806): Les blanchisseuses…
1760
Births: • Cherubini, Luigi (1760-1842) Literature: • Fielding, Henry (1707-1754): The Lovers Assistant; Or, New Art of Love (1760) Art: • Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780): Veduta di Pirna (1755-65) • Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780): Vista di Vienna dal Belvedere (1758-61) • Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806):…