Category: 18th Century
1701
1762
Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) Events: • Pinacoteca Nazionale founded in Bologna. Births: • María Cayetana de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba (1762-1802) Music: • Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787): Orfeo ed Euridice (1762) Art: • Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806): Mercure et Argus (1761-62) •…
1755
Births: • Louis XVIII, King of France (1755-1824) • Siddons, Sarah (1755-1831) Deaths: • Montesquieu (1689-1755) Literature: • Fielding, Henry (1707-1754): The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (1755) Art: • Canaletto (1697-1768): Capriccio: Un palazzo con cortile sulla laguna (c.1750-55) •…
1703
Births: • Boucher, François (1703-1770) Music: • Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): La Follia (1703) Architecture: • Chiesa di Santa Lucia alla Badia completed in Siracusa. • Construction of Buckingham Palace begins in London. • Galleria Colonna completed in Roma, Italia. Art: • Giordano, Luca (1634-1705): Giuditta mostra la testa di Oloferne…
1784
Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) Events: • Galleria dell’Accademia founded in Firenze. Births: • Fernando VII, King of Spain (1784-1833) • Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga, Manuel (1784-1792) • Taylor, Zachary (1784-1850) Deaths: • Diderot, Denis (1713-1784) Music: • Salieri, Antonio (1750-1825): Les…
1773
Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) Births: • Cabarrus, Thérésa, Madame Tallien (1773-1835) • Harrison, William Henry (1773-1841) Art: • David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825): La mort de Sénèque (1773) • Goya, Francisco (1746-1828): Juego de niños: El paso o…
1782
Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) Births: • Chapelle, Madeleine (1782-1849) • Van Buren, Martin (1782-1862) Architecture: • Santa Maria del Carmine completed in Firenze, Italia. Art: • Canova, Antonio (1757-1822): Teseo sul Minotauro (1782) • Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788): Rocky, Wooded Landscape with a…
1767
Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) Births: • Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848) • Jackson, Andrew (1767-1845) Music: • Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787): Alceste (1767) Art: • Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806): Les Hasards heureux de l’escarpolette (c.1767-68) • Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806): Portrait d’un homme en…
1758
Births: • Monroe, James (1758-1831) • Picton, Thomas (1758-1815) • Robespierre, Maximilien de (1758-1794) Art: • Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780): La fortezza di Königstein (1756-58) • Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780): La fortezza di Königstein vista da Nord (1756-58) • Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780): La fortezza di Königstein, cortile (1756-58) •…