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- Jan Brueghel the YoungerJan Brueghel the YoungerJan Brueghel the Younger was a Flemish Baroque painter, and the son of Jan Brueghel the Elder.He was trained by his father and spent his career producing works in a similar style. Along with his brother Ambrosius, he produced landscapes, allegorical scenes and other works of meticulous detail. ...
- Paradise - Artemisia GentileschiArtemisia GentileschiArtemisia Gentileschi was an Italian Early Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation influenced by Caravaggio...
- Judith Decapitating Holofernes - Orazio GentileschiOrazio GentileschiOrazio Lomi Gentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter, one of more important painters influenced by Caravaggio...
- Judith and Holofernes. - Jacob JordaensJacob JordaensJacob Jordaens was one of three Flemish Baroque painters, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the Antwerp school of painting. Unlike those contemporaries he never traveled abroad to study Italian painting, and his career is marked by an indifference to their...
- The Satyr and the Farmer's Family - Judith LeysterJudith LeysterJudith Jans Leyster was a Dutch Golden Age painter. She was one of three significant women artists in Dutch Golden Age painting; the other two, Rachel Ruysch and Maria van Oosterwijk, were specialized painters of flower still-lifes, while Leyster painted genre works, a few portraits, and a...
- "Jester with a Lute".
Births
- April 21 - Salvatore CastiglioneSalvatore CastiglioneSalvatore Castiglione was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Genoa, the brother and pupil of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, and he painted landscapes and pastoral subjects. He also completed a highly-finished etching representing the '’Resurrection of Lazarus’' .-Sources:...
, Italian painter of landscapes and pastoral subjects (d. 16761676 in art-Births:* Théobald Michau , Flemish painter * Jeong Seon – Korean landscape painter * Francesco Maria Raineri – Italian sculptor of battle scenes, landscapes, and veduta with historical or mythologic figures...
) - May 23 - Pieter Neeffs IIPieter Neeffs IIPieter Neeffs II was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in architectural interiors of churches. Born and active in Antwerp, he was trained by his father, Pieter Neeffs I. Their works, in fact, are very similar and attributions of their individual hands can be difficult...
, Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in architectural interiors of churches (d. 16751675 in art-Births:*April 29 – Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, Italian decorative and mural painter from Venice *June 23 – Louis de Silvestre, French painter *October 7 = Rosalba Carriera, Venetian Rococo painter especially of portrait miniatures...
) - October 1 - Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem, Dutch painter of pastoral landscapes (d. 16831683 in art-Births:*date unknown**Gao Fenghan, Chinese painter **Miyagawa Chōshun, Japanese painter in the ukiyo-e style **Ciro Adolfi, Italian painter...
) - October 16 - Pierre Paul PugetPierre Paul PugetPierre Paul Puget was a French painter, sculptor, architect and engineer.-Biography:Puget was born in Marseille. At the age of fourteen he carved the ornaments of the galleys built in the shipyards of his native city, and at sixteen the decoration and construction of a ship were entrusted to him...
, FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
painter, sculptorSculptureSculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
, architectArchitectAn architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
and engineer (d. 16941694 in art-Events:* Fair, from a copy of the 14th century Siyar-i Nabi of al-Zarir, Istanbul, Turkey, is made. It is now kept at New York Public Library, New York Spencer Collection.-Births:...
) - October 20 - Aelbert CuypAelbert CuypAelbert Jacobsz Cuyp was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father Jacob Gerritsz...
, DutchNetherlandsThe Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
landscape painter (d. 16911691 in art-Events:*William Fermor, 1st Baron Leominster, buys the Metrological Relief, now on display at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.-Births:*January 16 - Peter Scheemakers, Flemish Roman Catholic sculptor *June 2 - Nicolau Nasoni, artist and architect -Events:*William Fermor, 1st Baron Leominster, buys...
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- Clemente BocciardoClemente BocciardoClemente Bocciardo was an Italian painter of the Baroque. He was born in Genoa. He was also called Clementone because of his large size. He was a pupil of Bernardo Strozzi and accompanied Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione to Rome. He painted a Martyrdom of St. Sebastian for the church of the...
, Italian painter (d. 16581658 in art-Paintings:*Adriaen van der Spelt and Frans van Mieris paint "Flower Piece with Curtain". It is now kept at The Art Institute of Chicago.*Rembrandt van Rijn – Self-portrait*Guido Cagnacci – Death of Cleopatra-Births:...
) - Domenico Maria CanutiDomenico Maria CanutiDomenico Maria Canuti was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna and Rome.Born in Bologna, Canuti first trained in that city under Guido Reni, then with Guercino. He painted many ceiling and wall frescoes...
, Italian painter active mainly in BolognaBolognaBologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...
and RomeRomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
(d. 16601660 in art-Births:* Antonio Amorosi – Italian painter of the late-Baroque, active in Ascoli Piceno and Rome * Jakub Bogdan – Slovak still-life painter * Felice Cignani – Italian painter from Bologna , son of Carlo Cignani...
) - Jan GoedartJan GoedartJan Goedart was a Dutch painter famous for his illustrations of insects....
, Dutch painter famous for his illustrations of insects (d. 16681668 in art-Events:*The Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford is completed, to a design by Sir Christopher Wren.-Works:*Charles Le Brun – La Colère*Johannes Vermeer – The Astronomer-Births:*date unknown**Francesco Maria Schiaffino, Italian sculptor...
) - Louis LerambertLouis LerambertLouis Lerambert was a French sculptor in a numerous Parisian family of four generations of court artists who in 1637 inherited the court position caring for the Antiquities and Marbles of the King, which had become hereditary in his family...
, French sculptor from family of artists (d. 16701670 in art-Paintings:*Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael – The windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede*Vermeer - The Lacemaker-Births:*January 26 – Jacob van Schuppen, Austrian painter *August 24 – Louis Galloche, French painter *date unknown...
) - Andrea Giacomo PodestaAndrea Giacomo PodestaAndrea Giacomo Podesta was an Italian engraver and painter. He was born at Genoa, and traveled as a young man to Rome to apprentice under Giovanni Andrea Ferrari. He is best known for engravings of paintings of past masters such as Titian and Annibale Carracci.-References:, page 30...
, Italian engraver and painter (d. after 16401640 in art-Paintings:*Rembrandt - Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet*Diego Velázquez - Mars Resting -Births:*June 21 - Abraham Mignon, Dutch painter born at Frankfurt...
) - Santo RinaldiSanto RinaldiSanto Rinaldi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was an excellent painter of battle scenes, landscapes, and architectural conceits . He was also called il Tromba. He was born at Florence and initially trained with Francesco Furini.-References:...
, Italian painter of battle scenes, landscapes, and vedute (d. 16761676 in art-Births:* Théobald Michau , Flemish painter * Jeong Seon – Korean landscape painter * Francesco Maria Raineri – Italian sculptor of battle scenes, landscapes, and veduta with historical or mythologic figures...
) - Flaminio TorreFlaminio TorreFlaminio Torre was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School, active during the Baroque period.He was a pupil of Guido Reni, Giacomo Cavedone, and Simone Cantarini. He was also called Degli Ancinelli, and painted for churches in Bologna; including a Deposition from the Cross for S....
, Italian painter of churches in BolognaBolognaBologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...
(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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- Clemente Bocciardo
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- Abraham van Beijeren, Dutch painter (d. 16901690 in art-Events:*Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer leaves France for England, where he produces a series of decorative panels for Montagu House, Bloomsbury.-Births:*January 22 - Nicolas Lancret, French painter...
) - Giovanni Battista BonacinaGiovanni Battista BonacinaGiovanni Battista Bonacina was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period. He was born in Milan. He was influenced by Cornelis Bloemaert. He made portraits of Pope Clement IX, Guido and Hermes Visconti, and Giovanni Battista Conte Truchi. He also engraved The Alliance of Jacob and Laban...
, Italian painter and engraver (d. unknown) - Antonio Maria VassalloAntonio Maria VassalloAntonio Maria Vassallo was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa, and painting mythologic scenes and still lifes....
, Italian painter of mythologic scenes and still-lifes (d. 1664/16731664 in art-Paintings:* Claude Lorrain - Landscape with Psyche outside the Palace of Cupid -Births:* Torii Kiyonobu I – Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style, especially on Kabuki signboards...
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- Abraham van Beijeren, Dutch painter (d. 1690
Deaths
- June 16 - Carlo SaraceniCarlo SaraceniCarlo Saraceni was an Italian early-Baroque painter, whose reputation as a "first-class painter of the second rank" was improved with the publication of a modern monograph in 1968....
, Italian painter of landscapes, cabinet paintingCabinet paintingA cabinet painting is a small painting, typically no larger than about two feet in either dimension, but often much smaller. The term is especially used of paintings that show full-length figures at a small scale, as opposed to say a head painted nearly life-size, and that are painted very...
s, and altarpieceAltarpieceAn altarpiece is a picture or relief representing a religious subject and suspended in a frame behind the altar of a church. The altarpiece is often made up of two or more separate panels created using a technique known as panel painting. It is then called a diptych, triptych or polyptych for two,...
s (b. 15791579 in art-Works:* Giambologna begins the Rape of the Sabine Women, a remarkable example of Mannerist sculpture-Births:* Trophime Bigot – French painter * Frans Snyders – Flemish still-life master, apprenticed in 1593 to Pieter II Brueghel...
) - September - Aart van AntumAart van AntumAert Anthonisz, also known as Aart van Antum was a Dutch marine-painter.-Biography:Until 1973 this painter was known as Aart van Antum, after his early signatures were interpreted as "Aert Antum". Later research showed his signature to be "AERT ANT"; whereby the last letters are sometimes included...
, marine painter (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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- ScarsellinoScarsellinoScarsellino or Ippolito Scarsella , was an Italian Late-Renaissance - Mannerist painter of the School of Ferrara. He was born and died in Ferrara; however, he traveled and worked extensively across Italy, encountering many influences. He was born to an artist father, the less-talented Sigismondo...
, Italian ManneristMannerismMannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but Northern Mannerism continued into the early 17th century throughout much of Europe...
painter of the School of FerraraSchool of Ferrara (painting)The School of Ferrara was a group of painters which flourished in the Duchy of Ferrara during the Renaissance. Ferrara was ruled by the Este family, well known for its patronage of the arts. Patronage was extended with the ascent of Ercole d'Este I in 1470, and the family continued in power till...
(b. 1550/15511550 in art-Births:* Cristoforo Augusta – Italian painter, pupil of Giovanni Battista Trotti * Pier Angelo Basili – Italian painter born in Gubbio * Giovanni Paolo Cavagna – Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period, active mainly in Bergamo...
) - Antonio VivianiAntonio VivianiAntonio Viviani was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque. He was also called il Sordo de Urbino , because of his self-absorption while painting frescoes. He was born in Urbino, and there became a follower of Federigo Barocci, whose nephew he is said to have been...
, 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 (b. 15601560 in art-Births:* November 3 – Annibale Carracci, Italian painter * Ludovico Buti – Italian painter active mostly in Florence * Baldassare d'Anna – Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period * Bartolomeo Carducci – Italian painter...
) - Wu BinWu Bin (painter)Wu Bin was a Chinese landscape painter during the reign of the Ming Dynasty Wanli Emperor . His specific dates of birth and death are not known....
– ChineseChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
landscape painter during the Ming DynastyMing DynastyThe Ming Dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. The Ming, "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history", was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic...
(b. 15731573 in art-Births:* Ambrosius Bosschaert, Dutch painter * Sebastian Vrancx – Flemish Baroque painter and etcher of the Antwerp school * Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli – Italian painter of frescoes and altarpieces...
)*probable - Giuseppe AgellioGiuseppe AgellioGiuseppe Agellio was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Sorrento, he was a pupil of the painter Cristoforo Roncalli and although worked in Rome. He excelled in painting landscape and architecture.-References:*....
, Italian (b. 15701570 in art-Births:* Giuseppe Agellio – Italian painter of the Baroque period * Giulio Cesare Angeli – Italian painter of the early Baroque * Francesco Curradi – Italian painter of the style described as Contra-Maniera or Counter-Mannerism...
) - Francesco BrentiFrancesco Brenti (painter)Francesco Brenti was an Italian painter of the Mannerist style, active in Cremona. He appears to have trained with Giovanni Battista Trotti .-References:* ....
, Italian painter
- Scarsellino