1621 in art
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- Giovanni Francesco BarbieriGiovanni Francesco BarbieriGiovanni Francesco Barbieri , best known as Guercino or Il Guercino, was an Italian Baroque painter from the region of Emilia, and active in Rome and Bologna. Guercino is Italian for 'squinter', a nickname that was given to him because he was cross-eyed...
painted The Suicide of Cleopatra. - Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri (15891589 in art-Births:*August 12 - Domenico Fiasella, Italian painter of primarily frescoes *date unknown**Johannes van der Beeck, Dutch painter **Adriaen van de Venne, Dutch Baroque painter of allegories, genre subjects and portraits...
–16551655 in art-Paintings:*Nicholas Poussin - St. Peter Healing a Sick Man*Rembrandt - The Polish Rider*Vermeer - Christ in the House of Martha and Mary-Births:...
) painted Virgin and Child. - Domenico ZampieriDomenico ZampieriDomenico Zampieri was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School, or Carracci School, of painters.-Life:...
painted The Assumption of Mary Magdalene into Heaven.
Births
- May 25 – David BeckDavid BeckDavid Beck , was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter.-Biography:Beck was born in Delft, and was named after his uncle, a well-known poet from Arnhem. He was the son of a schoolmaster in Delft, where he learned painting from Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, a prominent portrait painter in the Netherlands...
, 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...
portrait painter (d. 16561656 in art-Works:* The Procuress – Johannes Vermeer * Las Meninas – Diego Velázquez -Births:*April 9 - Francesco Trevisani, Italian painter of frescoes...
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- Allaert van Everdingen, Dutch painter and printmaker in etchingEtchingEtching is the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal...
and mezzotintMezzotintMezzotint is a printmaking process of the intaglio family, technically a drypoint method. It was the first tonal method to be used, enabling half-tones to be produced without using line- or dot-based techniques like hatching, cross-hatching or stipple...
(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...
) - Isaac van OstadeIsaac van OstadeIsaac van Ostade was a Dutch genre and landscape painter.-Biography:Van Ostade began his studies under his brother, Adriaen, with whom he remained till 1641, when he started his own practice...
, Dutch genre and landscapeLandscape artLandscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works landscape backgrounds for figures can still...
painter (d. 16491649 in artThe year 1649 AD in art is evidenced by a number of paintings and sculptures, notably western European.- Paintings :* Diego Velázquez - Juan de Pareja.* Salomon van Ruysdael - Ferry on a River- Births :* date unknown...
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- Allaert van Everdingen, Dutch painter and printmaker in etching
- August 19 – Gerbrand van den EeckhoutGerbrand van den EeckhoutGerbrand van den Eeckhout , was a Dutch Golden Age painter and a favourite student of Rembrandt. He was also an etcher, an amateur poet, a collector and an adviser on art.-Biography:...
, painter of the Dutch Golden AgeDutch Golden AgeThe Golden Age was a period in Dutch history, roughly spanning the 17th century, in which Dutch trade, science, military and art were among the most acclaimed in the world. The first half is characterised by the Eighty Years' War till 1648...
(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...
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- Giacinto BrandiGiacinto BrandiGiacinto Brandi was an Italian painter of the Baroque era, active mainly in Rome and Naples.Born in Poli, in the Lazio, he was trained in Rome in the studio of Alessandro Algardi, a noted sculptor, who noted that Brandi was more suited to painting. He joined the studio of Giovanni Giacomo Sementi...
, ItalianItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
painter, active mainly in 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...
and NaplesNaplesNaples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
(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...
) - Jan Baptist WeenixJan Baptist WeenixJan Baptist Weenix , a painter of the Dutch Golden Age. Despite his relatively brief career, he was a very productive and versatile painter. His favourite subjects were Italian landscapes with large figures among ruins, seaside views, and, later in life, large still life pictures of dead game or dogs...
, painter of the Dutch Golden AgeDutch Golden AgeThe Golden Age was a period in Dutch history, roughly spanning the 17th century, in which Dutch trade, science, military and art were among the most acclaimed in the world. The first half is characterised by the Eighty Years' War till 1648...
(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...
) - Jacques CourtoisJacques CourtoisJacques Courtois was a French painter.-Biography:He was born at Saint-Hippolyte, near Besançon. His father was a painter, and with him Jacques remained studying up to the age of fifteen...
, French painter (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...
) - Giuseppe DiamantiniGiuseppe DiamantiniGiuseppe Diamantini was an Italian painter and printmaker of the Baroque period, active mainly in Venice.He was born in Fossombrone. His early training is not well documented, but he arrived in Venice by c. 1650. He is known to have designed the title page of a libretto for the opera L’inganno...
, Italian painter and printmaker of the 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...
period (d. 17051705 in art-Births:*February 15 – Charles-André van Loo, French subject painter , and a younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo*August 18 – Emanuel Büchel, Swiss painter *date unknown**Andrea Casali – Italian painter of the Rococo period...
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- Giacinto Brandi
- probable – Giulio Cesare MilaniGiulio Cesare MilaniGiulio Cesare Milani was an Italian painter of the Baroque.He was born in Bologna, where he was a pupil of Simone Cantarini and Flaminio Torre. He painted a Marriage of the Virgin for the church of San Giuseppe; a Sant' Antonio di Padova for the church of Santa Maria del Castello; and a Holy...
, Italian painter (d. 16781678 in art-Births:*June 3 - Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, Italian painter, sculptor and architect *date unknown**Giovanni Francesco Bagnoli, Italian painter of still-life paintings **Antonio Baroni, Italian painter active in Verona...
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Deaths
- April 1 – Cristofano AlloriCristofano AlloriCristofano Allori was an Italian portrait painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school. Allori was born at Florence and received his first lessons in painting from his father, Alessandro Allori, but becoming dissatisfied with the hard anatomical drawing and cold coloring of the latter, he...
, Italian painter (b. 15771577 in art-Births:* June 28 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter * Eugenio Caxés – Spanish painter of the Baroque period * Cristofano Allori – Italian painter * Giacomo Cavedone – Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School...
) - May 15 – Hendrick de KeyserHendrick de KeyserHendrick de Keyser was a Dutch sculptor and architect born in Utrecht, Netherlands, who was instrumental in establishing a late Renaissance form of Mannerism in Amsterdam...
, Dutch sculptor and architect (b. 15651565 in art-Works:-Paintings:* Pieter Bruegel the Elder paints the cycle of the seasons:**The Hunters in the Snow in the Kunsthistorisches Museum.**The Gloomy Day in the Kunsthistorisches Museum....
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- Louis de CaulleryLouis de CaulleryLouis de Caullery was one of the pioneers of the genre of courtly gatherings in Flemish painting of the 17th century.-Biography:According to the RKD he was born in Caulery, which is a small town near Cambrai...
, French painter (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...
) - Ambrosius BosschaertAmbrosius BosschaertAmbrosius Bosschaert the Elder was a still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age.-Biography:He was born in Antwerp, where he started his career, but he spent most of it in Middelburg , where he moved with his family because of the threat of religious persecution...
, Dutch painter (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...
) - Bernardino CesariBernardino CesariBernardino Cesari was an Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early Baroque period, active mainly in Rome and Naples, where he assisted his brother Giuseppe Cesari ....
, Italian painter of the late-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...
and early 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...
period (b. 15651576 in art-Births:* Scipione Borghese, Italian art collector * Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor * Roelant Savery, Flanders-born Dutch baroque painter of the Golden Age * David Vinckboons, Dutch painter of Flemish origin...
) - Terenzio TerenziTerenzio TerenziTerenzio Terenzi was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period. Born near Pesaro, he is also known as Terenzio da Urbino or il Rondolino. He was a pupil of the painter Federigo Barocci...
, Italian painter (b. 15751575 in art-Births:* November 4 – Guido Reni, Italian painter * Floris van Dyck – Dutch still life painter * Jacques Bellange – French artist and printmaker from Lorraine * Pedro Orrente – Spanish painter of the Baroque period...
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- Louis de Caullery