Rulers: • Cosimo de’ Medici, Signore di Firenze (1434-1464) • Juan II, King of Castile and León (1406-1454) • Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Signore di Rimini (1432-1468) Births: • Boiardo, Matteo Maria (1441-1494) Deaths: • Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) Art: • Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455):…
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1709
Art: • Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721): La danse champêtre (c.1706-10)
1754
Events: • Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum established in Braunschweig. • Royal Society of Arts founded in London. Deaths: • Fielding, Henry (1707-1754) Art: • Canaletto (1697-1768): Capriccio con colonna (c.1754) • Canaletto (1697-1768): Capriccio con palazzo (c.1754) • Canaletto (1697-1768): Capriccio: Un palazzo con cortile sulla laguna (c.1750-55) • Canaletto (1697-1768): Eton…
1663
Rulers: • Felipe IV, King of Spain (1621-1665) Deaths: • Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) • Stoffels, Hendrickje (1626-1663) Art: • Giordano, Luca (1634-1705): La lotta tra Ercole e Nesso (c.1660-65) • Murillo, Bartolomé (1617-1682): Cristo en la cruz (1660-70) • Murillo, Bartolomé (1617-1682): Ecce Homo (1660-70)…
1662
Rulers: • Felipe IV, King of Spain (1621-1665) Deaths: • Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662) Art: • Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663): La conversione della Maddalena (c.1661-62) • Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663): Morte di Cleopatra (1660-62) • Giordano, Luca (1634-1705): La lotta tra Ercole e Nesso (c.1660-65) • Murillo, Bartolomé (1617-1682): Cristo en…
1664
Rulers: • Felipe IV, King of Spain (1621-1665) Deaths: • Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Literature: • Molière (1622-1673): Le Mariage forcé (1664) • Molière (1622-1673): Tartuffe; Or, The Hypocrite (1664) Art: • Giordano, Luca (1634-1705): La lotta tra Ercole e Nesso (c.1660-65) • Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711): The Institution of the…
1657
Rulers: • Felipe IV, King of Spain (1621-1665) • Francesco I d’Este, Duke of Modena and Reggio (1629-1658) Art: • Guercino (1591-1666): Abramo ripudia Agar e Ismaele (1657) • Murillo, Bartolomé (1617-1682): Dos mujeres en la ventana (c.1655-60) • Murillo, Bartolomé (1617-1682): La Adoración…
1659
Rulers: • Felipe IV, King of Spain (1621-1665) Literature: • Molière (1622-1673): Les Précieuses ridicules (1659) Art: • Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663): Morte di Cleopatra (after 1659) • Flinck, Govert (1615-1660): Bathsheba with King David’s Letter (1659) • Giordano, Luca (1634-1705): Quattro donne che fanno musica (1658-60) • Murillo,…
1668
Births: • Vico, Giambattista (1668-1744) Deaths: • Rijn, Titus van (1641-1668) Literature: • Molière (1622-1673): Amphitryon (1668) • Molière (1622-1673): L’Avare ou L’École du mensonge (1668) Art: • Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680): Angelo con il titolo della croce (c.1667-68) • Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711): Venus Giving Arms to…
1672
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…