Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) Births: • Borbón y Vallabriga, María Teresa de (1779-1828) Deaths: • Garrick, David (1717-1779) Music: • Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787): Iphigénie en Tauride (1779) Art: • Canova, Antonio (1757-1822): Dedalo e Icaro (1777-79) • Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806): Le…
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1786
Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) Music: • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Le nozze di Figaro (1786) Art: • Goya, Francisco (1746-1828) El otoño (1786) • Goya, Francisco (1746-1828): Las floreras, o La Primavera (1786) • Goya, Francisco (1746-1828): Niño montando un carnero (1786-87)…
1778
Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) Events: • The Wellington Museum opens in Apsley House, London. Deaths: • Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778) • Voltaire (1694-1778) Art: • Canova, Antonio (1757-1822): Dedalo e Icaro (1777-79) • Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806): Le bluff de l’aveugle (c.1775-80)…
1783
Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) Births: • Stendhal (1783-1842) Art: • Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788): Mountain Landscape with Bridge (c.1783-84) • Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788): Rocky, Wooded Landscape with a Dell and Weir (c.1782-83) • Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788): Tristram…
1787
Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) Events: • Musée des Beaux-Arts established in Dijon, France. Deaths: • Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787) Music: • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Don Giovanni (1787) • Salieri, Antonio (1750-1825): Tarare (1787) Art: • Canova, Antonio (1757-1822): Amore e Psiche…
1746
Births: • Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Art: • Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780): Campo di SS Giovanni e Paolo, Venezia (1743-47) • Carriera, Rosalba (1675-1757): Apollo (1740-46) • Carriera, Rosalba (1675-1757): Diana (1740-46) • Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788): Conversation in a Park (1746-48) • Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770):…
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1613
Rulers: • James I, King of England and Ireland (1603-1625) • James VI, King of Scotland (1567-1625) Literature: • Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1515): Novelas ejemplares (1613) • Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): Henry VIII (1613) Art: • Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625): Paradise Landscape (c.1613-15) • El…
1614
Rulers: • James I, King of England and Ireland (1603-1625) • James VI, King of Scotland (1567-1625) Births: • Fourment, Hélène (1614-1673) Deaths: • El Greco (1541-1614) • Fontana, Lavinia (1552-1614) Literature: • Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1515): Viaje del Parnaso (1614) • Jonson, Ben (1572-1637): Bartholomew…
1676
Architecture: • Skoklosters Slott completed in Sweden. 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)