Tag: 1759

Apollo insegue Dafne (c.1755-1760)

Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Apollo insegue Dafne (Apollo Pursuing Daphne) c.1755–1760 Oil on canvas, 68.5 x 87 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Throughout his career Tiepolo painted small pictures of mythological themes, which proved extremely popular. The subjects of these works…

1759

Births: • Danton, Georges (1759-1794) • Schiller, Friedrich (1759-1805) • Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797) Art: • Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780): Veduta di Pirna (1755-65) • Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780): Vista di Vienna dal Belvedere (1758-61) • Boucher, François (1703-1770): Madame de Pompadour (1759)…

Mary Wollstonecraft

(1759–1797) Works: • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (English) • Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (English) • Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (English) • Mary: A Fiction (English) • Mary Wollstonecraft’s…