1637 in art
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- Claude LorrainClaude LorrainClaude Lorrain, , traditionally just Claude in English Claude Lorrain, , traditionally just Claude in English (also Claude Gellée, his real name, or in French Claude Gellée, , dit le Lorrain) Claude Lorrain, , traditionally just Claude in English (also Claude Gellée, his real name, or in French...
produces a series of etchings of a display of fireworksFireworksFireworks are a class of explosive pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic and entertainment purposes. The most common use of a firework is as part of a fireworks display. A fireworks event is a display of the effects produced by firework devices...
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...
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Paintings
- Claude LorrainClaude LorrainClaude Lorrain, , traditionally just Claude in English Claude Lorrain, , traditionally just Claude in English (also Claude Gellée, his real name, or in French Claude Gellée, , dit le Lorrain) Claude Lorrain, , traditionally just Claude in English (also Claude Gellée, his real name, or in French...
– Seaport (Villa Medici) and Landscape with a Country Dance - Pieter de GrebberPieter de GrebberPieter Fransz de Grebber was a Dutch Golden Age painter.-Life:De Grebber was the oldest son of Frans Pietersz de Grebber , a painter and embroiderer in Haarlem, and the brother of the painters Maria and Albert. He learned to paint from his father and from Hendrick Goltzius...
– ElishaElishaElisha is a prophet mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and the Qur'an. His name is commonly transliterated into English as Elisha via Hebrew, Eliseus via Greek and Latin, or Alyasa via Arabic.-Biblical biography:...
refusing the gifts of NaamanNaamanNaaman was a commander of the armies of Ben-Hadad II in the time of Joram, king of Israel. He is mentioned in of the Tanakh. According to the narrative, he was afflicted with tzaraath...
Births
- March 5 – Jan van der HeydenJan van der HeydenJan van der Heyden was a Dutch Baroque-era painter, draughtsman, printmaker, a mennonite and inventor who significantly contributed to contemporary firefighting. He improved the fire hose in 1672, with his brother Nicolaes, who was a hydraulic engineer...
, painter, printmaker and inventor (d. 17121712 in art-Paintings:* Series The Seven Sacraments by Giuseppe Maria Crespi.-Births:*February 19 - Arthur Devis, English portrait painter, particularly known for his conversation pieces and other such small portraits...
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- Abraham BegeynAbraham BegeynAbraham Begeyn , was a Dutch Golden Age painter.-Biography:Begeyn was born in Leiden. Though perhaps known mostly for his Italianate landscapes and cattle in the manner of Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Begyn was a highly skilled painter active in many genres, who traveled widely...
– 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...
painter of landscapes and cattle (d. 16971697 in art-Births:* October 28 – Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto, Venetian artist famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice * Bernard Accama or Bernardus, Dutch historical and portrait painter, born in Friesland...
) - Niccolò BerrettoniNiccolò BerrettoniNiccolò Berrettoni was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He trained with Simone Cantarini then worked with Carlo Maratta. Among his paintings in Rome was a Madonna with St...
, Italian painter (d. 16821682 in art-Births: *February 13 – Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian rococo painter *April 15 – Jan van Huysum, Dutch painter *August 15 - Annibale Albani, Italian Cardinal, whose library, gallery of paintings/sculpture, and cabinet of coins were added to the Vatican collection *October 24 - William Aikman...
) - Francesco BonifaccioFrancesco BonifaccioFrancesco Bonifaccio was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born at Viterbo in 1637, and was a pupil of Pietro da Cortona at the time that Ciro Ferri and Romanelli studied under that master.-References:...
– 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 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. unknown) - Andrea CelestiAndrea CelestiAndrea Celesti was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, working in Venice. His style gravitated over the years from a turgid and academic weightiness to a lighter, looser brushstroke.-Biography:...
, Venetian painter (d. 17121712 in art-Paintings:* Series The Seven Sacraments by Giuseppe Maria Crespi.-Births:*February 19 - Arthur Devis, English portrait painter, particularly known for his conversation pieces and other such small portraits...
) - Jean-Jacques ClérionJean-Jacques ClérionJean-Jacques Clérion was a French sculptor who worked mainly for King Louis XIV.Clérion was born in either Aix-en-Provence or Trets. For much of his career he worked on the Chateau de Versailles, including many of the famous garden sculptures, such as the "Apollo Fountain"...
, French sculptor (d. 17141714 in art-Births:*January 26 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor *August 1 - Richard Wilson, landscape painter *August 14 - Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter...
) - Martin DesjardinsMartin DesjardinsMartin Desjardins, born Martin van den Bogaert was a French sculptor and stuccoist of Dutch birth.He was born at Breda, the son of a milliner in a house that would later carry the name 'de Drye Bredasche Hoeden'...
– French sculptor and stuccoist of Dutch birth (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:...
) - Carl Ferdinand FabritiusCarl Ferdinand FabritiusCarl Ferdinand Fabritius was a painter in the Bishopric of Paderborn . Paderborn prince-bishop Ferdinand II. von Fürstenberg commissioned Fabritius to paint 63 landscape paintings of the towns and villages in his diocese from 1664 to 1667...
, German painter (d. 16731673 in art-Births:*June 11 – Bernard Picart, French engraver *date unknown**Thomas Germain, silversmith **Ádám Mányoki, Hungarian painter **Giovanni Battista Lama, Italian painter, active mainly in Naples...
) - Thomas FlatmanThomas FlatmanThomas Flatman was an English poet and miniature painter. There were several editions of his Poems and Songs . One of his self-portraits is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. A portrait of Charles II is in the Wallace Collection, London...
(d. 16881688 in art-Paintings:*René-Antoine Houasse - Minerva teaching the Rhodians sculpture *Willem van de Velde the Younger - The Fleet at Sea-Births:*April 15 – Johann Georg Bergmüller, painter of frescoes, of the Baroque...
), English poet and miniature painter - Giovanni MarracciGiovanni MarracciGiovanni Marracci was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, who trained in Rome in the studio of Pietro da Cortona, but worked independently in Lucca and neighboring towns. Among his masterpieces is a Coronation of Santa Teresa...
, Italian painter (d. 17041704 in art-Works:*Paolo Alessandro Maffei - Engraving of Menelaus supporting the body of Patroclus-Births:*February 15 – Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, French sculptor *May/June – Johann Baptist Straub – German Rococo sculptor...
) - Giovanni MoneriGiovanni MoneriGiovanni Moneri was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He was born in Visone near Acqui in the Piedmont, and became the pupil of Giovanni Francesco Romanelli in Rome...
, Italian painter (d. 17141714 in art-Births:*January 26 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor *August 1 - Richard Wilson, landscape painter *August 14 - Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter...
) - Michelangelo PalloniMichelangelo PalloniMichelangelo Palloni was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, who worked in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1674 onward....
, Italian painter (d. 17121712 in art-Paintings:* Series The Seven Sacraments by Giuseppe Maria Crespi.-Births:*February 19 - Arthur Devis, English portrait painter, particularly known for his conversation pieces and other such small portraits...
) - Niccola RiccioliniNiccola RiccioliniNiccola Ricciolini was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He was born at Rome and was a pupil of Pietro da Cortona. He competed against Marcantonio Franceschini with cartoons for the mosaic decoration of the Vatican. His designs led to the mosaics ofCrucifixion of St. Peter and a painting...
, Italian painter (d. unknown) - Girolamo TroppaGirolamo TroppaGirolamo Troppa was an Italian painter of the Baroque. He was active in Rome. He was a follower of Carlo Maratti. He painted for the church of San Giacomo delle Penitenti, in competition with the son of Giovan Francesco Romanelli...
– 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 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...
(d. 17101710 in art-Births:*March 8 – Gaetano Majorano, Italian castrato and opera singer *May 8 – Peter Anton von Verschaffelt, Flemish sculptor and architect *May 23 – François Gaspard Adam, French rococo sculptor...
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- Abraham Begeyn
Deaths
- July 12 – Willem van HaechtWillem van HaechtWillem van Haecht was a Flemish Baroque painter best known for his gallery pictures and the son of the landscape painter Tobias Verhaecht. He studied under Peter Paul Rubens, worked in Paris from 1615 to 1619, and then travelled to Italy for about seven years. Van Haecht became a master in...
, Flemish painter (born 15931593 in art-Paintings: *Caravaggio – Boy with a Basket of Fruit-Births:*March 13 - Georges de La Tour, painter from the Duchy of Lorraine, now in France *May 19 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish Baroque painter from the Antwerp school of painting...
) - September 14 – Theodoor RomboutsTheodoor RomboutsTheodoor Rombouts was a Flemish Baroque painter specializing in Caravaggesque genre scenes of card players and musicians.-Biography:...
, Flemish painter (born 15971597 in art-Works:*Caravaggio**Penitent Magdalene**Rest on the Flight into Egypt**Medusa**Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto*Dong Qichang - Wanluan Thatched Hall...
) - December 27 – Vincenzo GiustinianiVincenzo Giustinianithumb|upright|Vincenzo Giustiniani in a portrait by [[Nicolas Régnier]] Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani was an aristocratic Italian banker, art collector and intellectual of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, known today largely for the Giustiniani art collection, assembled at Palazzo...
, art collector, patron of CaravaggioCaravaggioMichelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque...
(born 15641564 in art-Births:* Pieter Brueghel the Younger – Flemish Renaissance painter * Vincenzo Giustiniani – art collector, patron of Caravaggio * Joseph Heintz the Elder – Swiss painter, draftsman and architect...
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- Honami KōetsuHonami Koetsuwas a Japanese craftsman, potter, lacquerer, and calligrapher, whose work is generally considered to have inspired the founding of the Rinpa school of painting.-Early life:...
, Japanese craftsman, founder of the Rinpa school (born 15581558 in art-Events:* Benvenuto Cellini begins writing his influential autobiography on his life and goldsmith's art, sculpture, and design-Works:-Paintings:* Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Landscape with the Fall of Icarus...
) - Diego de LeyvaDiego de LeyvaDiego de Leyva was a Spanish painter. He was born at Haro in La Rioja. He is supposed to have spent his youth at Rome, and returned to Spain a painter, and settled at Burgos. In 1628 he was commissioned by the Chapter of Burgos to paint the portraits of certain dignitaries for the chapel of St...
, Spanish religious painter (born c. 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...
) - Arent PasserArent PasserArent Passer was a stonemason and architect of the Netherlands origin. He was born in Hague and worked in Tallinn from 1589 until his death. Arent Passer is buried in St...
, stonemason and architect (born c. 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...
) - Domenico Robusti, painter (born 15621562 in art-Events:* In Venice, sumptuary laws in 1562 decreed that all gondolas must be painted black to prevent lavish displays of wealth.* Vasari, who had erected the Uffizi Gallery in 1560, founded the Academy of Design in 1562....
) - Cornelis VerbeeckCornelis VerbeeckCornelis Verbeeck , also known as Cornelis Verbeecq, was a Dutch Golden Age painter from Haarlem.-Biography:He is first mentioned along with Hans Goderis in the book Harlemias by Theodorus Schrevelius as choosing marine painting....
– 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...
painter 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 (b. 15901590 in art-Works:* Annibale Carracci - The Beaneater* Hendrick De Clerck - Anne with the Virgin and Child for the Kapellekerk in Brussels ....
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- Honami Kōetsu