1612 in art
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- February 9 - Pier Francesco MolaPier Francesco MolaPier Francesco Mola was an Italian painter of the High Baroque, mainly active around Rome.-Biography:Mola was born at Coldrerio . At the age of four, he moved to Rome with his father Giovanni Battista, a painter...
, Italian painter of frescoFrescoFresco is any of several related mural painting types, executed on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Greek word affresca which derives from the Latin word for "fresh". Frescoes first developed in the ancient world and continued to be popular through the Renaissance...
es (d. 16661666 in art-Events:*A stay of three to five years at the Palazzo Mancini in Rome. at the expense of the King of France. is added to the Prix de Rome award.-Births:*April 12 – Pierre Le Gros the Younger, French sculptor, active almost exclusively in Baroque Rome...
) - April 12 - Simone CantariniSimone CantariniSimone Cantarini , also known as Simone da Pesaro, was an Italian painter and etcher of the Bolognese School of painting.Cantarini was born in Oropezza near Pesaro, then part of the Papal States....
, Italian painter and etcher of the Bolognese School of paintingBolognese School (painting)The Bolognese School or the School of Bologna of painting flourished in Bologna, the capital of Emilia Romagna, between the 16th and 17th centuries in Italy, and rivalled Florence and Rome as the center of painting. Its most important representatives include the Carracci family, including Ludovico...
(d. 16481648 in art-Paintings:* Claude Lorrain - The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba; Marriage of Isaac and Rebekah; Landscape with Dancing Figures ; Landscape with Paris and Oenone...
) - December 2 (baptized) - David Ryckaert IIIDavid Ryckaert IIIDavid Ryckaert III, sometimes called The Younger was a Flemish painter.-Biography:...
, Flemish painter, member of the Ryckaert familyRyckaert familyThe Ryckaert or Rijckaert family of Antwerp produced several Flemish painters during the late sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries.* David Ryckaert I, 1560 – 1607. Little is known of his career. Two of his sons by his wife Catherine Rem were professional painters.* David Ryckaert II, 1586...
of artists (d. 16611661 in art-Births:* Scipione Angelini – Italian painter best known for still lifes * Antoine Coypel – French painter * Lucas de Valdés – Spanish painter and engraver of the Baroque period...
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- Barent AvercampBarent AvercampBarent Avercamp was a Dutch painter.Avercamp was born in Kampen and was taught by his uncle Hendrick Avercamp, who was also a painter. Barent primarily painted scenes depicting Netherlands in winter. He was a member of the Guild of Saint Luke, and traveled around the Netherlands including Zwolle...
, Dutch painter (d. 16791679 in art-Works:*François de Troy - Portrait of Nils Bielke*Memorial painting of Isaac Bargrave in Canterbury Cathedral, attributed to Cornelius Jansen-Births:*January 27 – Jean-François de Troy, French painter *April 24 - Francesco Mancini, painter...
) - Baldassare BianchiBaldassare BianchiBaldassare Bianchi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He was born in Bologna, and was first a pupil of Giovanni Paderna, but after Paderna's death, he trained with Agostino Mitelli, the pre-eminent quadratura painter from Bologna. Bianchi married Mitelli's daughter. Bianchi became a...
, Italian painter (d. 16791679 in art-Works:*François de Troy - Portrait of Nils Bielke*Memorial painting of Isaac Bargrave in Canterbury Cathedral, attributed to Cornelius Jansen-Births:*January 27 – Jean-François de Troy, French painter *April 24 - Francesco Mancini, painter...
) - Kun CanKun CanKūn Cán was a Chinese painter from Hunan who spent most of his life in Nanjing. He became a Chan Buddhism monk at an early age and in Nanjing was abbot of a monastery on Niushou Shan. His style of landscape painting was influenced by Wang Meng and he is one of the Four Monk Masters in the early...
, Chinese painter from HunanHunan' is a province of South-Central China, located to the south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting...
who spent most of his life in NanjingNanjing' is the capital of Jiangsu province in China and has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having been the capital of China on several occasions...
(d. 16741674 in art-Paintings:* Claude Lorrain painted Seaport .* Willem van de Velde the Elder painted the First Battle of Schooneveld-Births:*January 12 – Alexis Simon Belle French portrait painter...
) - Francisco de Burgos MantillaFrancisco de Burgos MantillaFrancisco de Burgos Mantilla was a Spanish Baroque painter of portraits and still lifes.He was born in Burgos but from 1618 he lived in Madrid, where he had his artistic training under Pedro de las Cuevas. In his mature work he was strongly influenced by Velázquez...
, Spanish painter (d. 16721672 in art-Paintings: *Kanō Tanyū – 春景図 -Births:*October 18 – Giuseppe Antonio Caccioli, Italian painter *date unknown**Alberto Carlieri – Italian painter of the late-Baroque period...
) - Francesco FrancanzanoFrancesco FrancanzanoFrancesco Francanzano was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Naples. He was the pupil of the painter Jusepe Ribera. One of his pupils was Salvator Rosa, who became his brother-in-law. He participated in the Masaniello rebellion, and was pardoned. By report, after inciting...
, Italian painter who participated in the MasanielloMasanielloMasaniello was a Neapolitan fisherman, who became leader of the revolt against Spanish Habsburg rule in Naples in 1647.-Name and place of birth:...
rebellion (d. 16571657 in art-Paintings:* Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas, 1656–1657* Salomon van Ruysdael, View of Deventer Seen from the North-West-Births:*January - Peter van Bloemen, Dutch painter *May 8 – Martino Altomonte, Italian painter of frescoes...
) - Frans WoutersFrans WoutersFrans Wouters was a Flemish Baroque painter who translated the monumental Baroque style of Peter Paul Rubens into the small context of cabinet paintings.-Biography:...
, Flemish Baroque painter (d. 16591659 in art-Paintings:* Rembrandt – Jacob Wrestling with the Angel* Jan Vermeer – Officer and a Laughing Girl-Births:*January 21 - Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch painter of portraits and erotic, devotional and mythological scenes...
) - Zhou LianggongZhou LianggongZhou Lianggong was a Chinese poet, born in Kaifeng was an essayist and art historian, and had long family ties to Nanjing.He passed his Jinshi degree in 1640, becoming a magistrate in Shandong where he defended the city from attack from Manchu Qing army. He would however take his place in the new...
, Chinese bureaucrat, poet, essayist and art historian (d. 16721672 in art-Paintings: *Kanō Tanyū – 春景図 -Births:*October 18 – Giuseppe Antonio Caccioli, Italian painter *date unknown**Alberto Carlieri – Italian painter of the late-Baroque period...
), patron of many important Chinese painters
- Barent Avercamp
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- Juan Bautista Martínez del MazoJuan Bautista Martínez del MazoJuan Bautista Martínez del Mazo was a Spanish Baroque portrait and landscape painter, the most distinguished of the followers of Velázquez, whose style he imitated more closely than did any other artist...
, SpanishSpanish peopleThe Spanish are citizens of the Kingdom of Spain. Within Spain, there are also a number of vigorous nationalisms and regionalisms, reflecting the country's complex history....
BaroqueBaroqueThe Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
portrait and landscape painter (d. 16671667 in art-Events:* February – the first theatre in Sweden, opens in Bollhuset and Lejonkulan in Stockholm.-Paintings:* Rembrandt van Rijn – The Jewish Bride-Births:*February 4 - Alessandro Magnasco, Italian Rococo painter of genre or landscape scenes...
) - Harmen SteenwijckHarmen SteenwijckHarmen Steenwyck was a Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes, notably of fruit.-Biography:His birth year is a rough estimate based on the appearance of his first works in 1628...
, Dutch painter of still lifeStill lifeA still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural or man-made...
s, notably of fruit (d. 16561656 in art-Works:* The Procuress – Johannes Vermeer * Las Meninas – Diego Velázquez -Births:*April 9 - Francesco Trevisani, Italian painter of frescoes...
) - Andries BothAndries BothAndries Both , was a Dutch Golden Age genre painter, one of the bamboccianti, and brother of Jan Dirksz Both.Both was born in Utrecht, the son of a glass painter. He studied under Abraham Bloemaert. According to Joachim von Sandrart Andries and his brother Jan cooperated on the paintings, with Jan...
, Dutch genre painterGenre paintingGenre works, also called genre scenes or genre views, are pictorial representations in any of various media that represent scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes. Such representations may be realistic, imagined, or...
(d. 16421642 in art- Paintings :* Rembrandt - The Night Watch [see image].* approx. date William Dobson - Charles II, when Prince of Wales, with a Page....
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- Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo
Deaths
- March - Philip Galle, publisher of old master prints (b. 15371537 in art-Painting:* Hans Holbein the Younger – Portrait of Jane Seymour* Domenico di Pace Beccafumi – Saint Bernard of Siena Preaching-Births:* Giovanni Battista Naldini – Italian painter of a late-Mannerism in Florence -Deaths:...
) - May 31 - Willem Isaacsz SwanenburgWillem Isaacsz SwanenburgWillem Isaacsz van Swanenburg , was a Dutch Golden Age engraver and the youngest son of Isaac van Swanenburg.-Biography:...
, Dutch engraver (b. 15801580 in art-Births:*January 20 – Stefano Amadei – Italian still-life painter *July 18 – Giovanni Giacomo Semenza – Italian painter of the early Baroque period *date unknown**Cesare Aretusi – Italian painter primarily of portraits...
) - August 17 - Alexander ColynAlexander ColynAlexander Colyn was a Flemish sculptor.-Biography:Colyn was born in Mechelen, Belgium. In 1563 he went, at the invitation of the emperor Ferdinand I, to Innsbruck, to work on the magnificent monument which was being erected to Maximilian I in the nave of the Franciscan church...
, FlemishFlemish peopleThe Flemings or Flemish are the Dutch-speaking inhabitants of Belgium, where they are mostly found in the northern region of Flanders. They are one of two principal cultural-linguistic groups in Belgium, the other being the French-speaking Walloons...
sculptor (b. 1527/15291527 in art-Events:* Pieter van Aelst enters the Antwerp Guild of painters* John Browne becomes the first Serjeant Painter-Births:* Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter * Luca Cambiasi, Italian painter...
) - October 4 - Cesare AretusiCesare AretusiCesare Aretusi was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period.He was born in Modena and trained with Bartolomeo Ramenghi . Known primarily as a portrait painter, Aretusi also painted the cupola of the cathedral of St. Peter in Bologna, where he was assisted by Giovanni Battista Fiorini...
, Italian painter primarily of portraits (b. 15801580 in art-Births:*January 20 – Stefano Amadei – Italian still-life painter *July 18 – Giovanni Giacomo Semenza – Italian painter of the early Baroque period *date unknown**Cesare Aretusi – Italian painter primarily of portraits...
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- Federico BarocciFederico BarocciFederico Barocci was an Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker. His original name was Federico Fiori, and he was nicknamed Il Baroccio, which still in northwestern Italian dialects means a two wheel cart drawn by oxen...
, Italian painter (b. 15281528 in art-Works:* The Artist's Family – Hans Holbein-Births:* Federico Barocci, Italian painter * Theodor de Bry, Flemish engraver and draftsman * Gillis Mostaert – Dutch painter, son of Jan Mostaert...
) - Francesco Cavazzoni, Italian painter and art historian (b. 15591559 in art-Works:-Paintings:* Pieter Bruegel the Elder**The Fight Between Carnival and Lent**Netherlandish Proverbs* Luca Cambiaso – Resurrected Christ-Births:* Juan de las Roelas – Spanish painter...
) - Giovanni Battista TrottiGiovanni Battista TrottiGiovanni Battista Trotti was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period, active mainly in Piacenza, Parma, and his native city of Cremona....
, Italian painter active mainly in his native city of CremonaCremonaCremona is a city and comune in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po River in the middle of the Pianura Padana . It is the capital of the province of Cremona and the seat of the local City and Province governments...
(b. 15551555 in art-Events:* Villa Giulia is completed, which now houses the National Etruscan Museum's collection of Etruscan art and artifacts-Paintings:* c. 1555-1560 – Illuminated tugra of Sultan Suleyman, from Istambul, Turkey, is made. It is now kept at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.-Births:* April...
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- Federico Barocci