1667 in art
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Events
- February – the first theatre in Sweden, opens in BollhusetBollhusetBollhuset, also called ', ', and ' at various times, was the name of the first theater in Stockholm, Sweden; it was the first Swedish theater and the first real theater building in the whole of Scandinavia. The name "" means "The Ball House", and it was built in 1627 for ball sports and used in...
and LejonkulanLejonkulanLejonkulan , was a historical theatre in Stockholm, Sweden, active 1667-89. It is mentioned in history as the first theatre in Sweden. In 1686, it was the place of the first Swedish Theatre.- History :...
in StockholmStockholmStockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
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Paintings
- Rembrandt van Rijn – The Jewish Bride
Births
- February 4 - Alessandro MagnascoAlessandro MagnascoAlessandro Magnasco , also known as il Lissandrino, was an Italian late-Baroque painter active mostly in Milan and Genoa...
, Italian RococoRococoRococo , also referred to as "Late Baroque", is an 18th-century style which developed as Baroque artists gave up their symmetry and became increasingly ornate, florid, and playful...
painter of genre or 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...
scenes (d. 17491749 in art-Paintings:* Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin refines technique for reflected light on glass and silver, painting The Silver Beaker.-Births:* January 13 – Friedrich Müller, painter, narrator, lyricist and dramatist...
) - July 21 - Cristoforo MunariCristoforo MunariCristoforo Munari was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque specializing in still life paintings. He was also known as Cristofano Monari....
, Italian painter of the late-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...
specializing in 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...
paintings (d. 17201720 in art-Paintings:* Antoine Watteau – The shop sign of Gersaint-Births:*January 19 – John Boydell, engraver *January 20 – Bernardo Bellotto, Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching...
) - September 9 - Felice TorelliFelice TorelliFelice Torelli was an Italian painter of the Baroque style, active mainly in Bologna.He was born to a family of artists in Verona, including his brother, Giuseppe Torelli, a noted violinist and composer of concerti. Both his son, Stefano Torelli, and his wife, Lucia Casalini , were painters. His...
, Italian painter of 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 (d. 17481748 in art-Events:*Patience Lovell, the first recognized American-born sculptor, marries Joseph Wright.-Works:*Robert Feke - Portrait of William Bowdoin-Births:*May 22 - Thomas Roberts, Irish Landscape artist...
) - November 5 - Christoph Ludwig AgricolaChristoph Ludwig AgricolaChristoph Ludwig Agricola was a German landscape painter. He was born and died at Regensburg .He spent a great part of his life in travel, visiting England, the Netherlands and France, and residing for a considerable period at Naples.His numerous landscapes, chiefly cabinet pictures, are...
, German landscape painter (d. 17191719 in art-Paintings:* Antoine Watteau, Pierrot-Births:* May 29 – Lorenzo De Caro, Neapolitan painter * August 25 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter...
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- Federiko BenkovićFederiko BenkovicFederiko Benković was a prominent late Baroque painter. He is best known as Federico Bencovich or Federico Bencovic, but also as Federigo or Federighetto or Dalmatino....
, Croatian late baroque painter (d. 17531753 in art-Paintings:* Jean-Baptiste Oudry painted The White Duck.* Gustaf Lundberg painted a portrait of Carolus Linnaeus .* Jean-Honoré Fragonard painted Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid....
) - Francis BirdFrancis BirdFrancis Bird was one of the leading English sculptors of his time. He is mainly remembered for sculptures in Westminster Abbey and St Paul's Cathedral. He carved a tomb for the dramatist William Congreve in Westminster Abbey and sculptures of the apostles and evangelists on the exterior of St...
, English sculptor (d. 17311731 in art-Events:*János Krucsay donates the Krucsay Altar to the Franciscan Church in Nyírbátor-Works:*Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin – The White Tablecloth*William Hogarth – A Harlot's Progress...
) - Michael FeuchtmayerMichael FeuchtmayerMichael Feuchtmayer was a member of the Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists of the German Wessobrunner School.He was the brother of Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer and Johann Michael Feuchtmayer ; the father of Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer and Johann Michael Feuchtmayer ; the...
, German member of the FeuchtmayerFeuchtmayerThe Feuchtmayers were a German family of artists from the Baroque Wessobrunner School....
family of Baroque artistsBaroque sculptureBaroque sculpture is the sculpture associated with the Baroque cultural movement, a movement often identified with the existence of important Baroque art and architecture in non-absolutist and Protestant states.-Course:...
(d. unknown) - Giovanni TuccariGiovanni TuccariGiovanni Tuccari was an Italian painter during the Baroque period, active in Sicily.Tuccari was born in Messina. He was the son and pupil of Antonio Tuccari, an obscure painter. He excelled as a battle painter. He died of the plague. He was responsible for the frescos in the Church of San...
, Italian painter of battle scenes (d. 17431743 in art-Works:* William Hogarth begins painting his Marriage à-la-mode series* Louis-Michel van Loo completes The Family of Philip V-Births:*March 9 – Johann Kaspar Füssli, Swiss painter...
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- Federiko Benković
Deaths
- January - Jacob DuckJacob DuckJacob Duck was a Dutch painter and etcher.Duck is thought to have been born in Utrecht. From 1611, he was trained in Utrecht to become a goldsmith, in which craft he became a master in 1619. From 1621 he took drawing lessons from Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot...
, Dutch painter (b. 16001600 in art-Works:* Caravaggio**The Calling of St Matthew**The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew* El Greco - View of Toledo-Births:*May - Andrea Vaccaro, Italian Caravaggisti painter in a tenebrist style *date unknown...
) - February 10 - 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...
, Spanish 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 (b. 16121612 in art-Births:*February 9 - Pier Francesco Mola, Italian painter of frescoes *April 12 - Simone Cantarini, Italian painter and etcher of the Bolognese School of painting...
) - July 4 - Christiaen van CouwenberghChristiaen van CouwenberghChristiaen van Couwenbergh, was a Dutch Golden Age painter.-Biography:Couwenbergh was born in Delft. His father Gillis was a silversmith, engraver, and art dealer from Mechelen. Gillis had moved to Delft before 1604 where he married Adriaantje Vosmaer, the sister of the flower painter Jacob...
, Dutch Golden Age painter (b. 16041604 in art-Paintings:*Caravaggio**John the Baptist**John the Baptist **The Crowning with Thorns I-Births:*July 8 - Christiaen van Couwenbergh, Dutch Golden Age painter...
) - August 3 – Francesco BorrominiFrancesco BorrominiFrancesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli was an architect from Ticino who, with his contemporaries, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.A keen student of the architecture of Michelangelo and the ruins of...
, byname of Francesco Castelli, prominent and influential Baroque architect in Rome (b. 15991599 in art-Works:*Caravaggio**Basket of Fruit**Judith Beheading Holofernes**David and Goliath**Narcissus-Births:*March 22 - Anthony van Dyck, Flemish Baroque artist who became England's leading court painter...
) - August 12 - Cornelius van PoelenburghCornelius van PoelenburghCornelis van Poelenburgh, was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.-Biography:Though his birthplace is unknown, a signed document survives in Utrecht where he is listed as six years old and the son of Simon van Poelenburch, a Catholic canon in Utrecht. He initially trained with Abraham Bloemaert,...
, Dutch painter (b. 15901590 in art-Works:* Annibale Carracci - The Beaneater* Hendrick De Clerck - Anne with the Virgin and Child for the Kapellekerk in Brussels ....
) - September 3 - Alonzo CanoAlonzo CanoAlonzo Cano or Alonso Cano was a Spanish painter, architect and sculptor born in Granada. He learned architecture from his father, Miguel Cano; painting in the academy of Juan del Castillo, and from Francisco Pacheco the teacher of Velázquez; and sculpture from Juan Martínez Montañés...
, Spanish painter, 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 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...
(b. 16011601 in art-Paintings:*Caravaggio**Crucifixion of St. Peter**Supper at Emmaus**The Conversion of Saint Paul**Conversion on the Way to Damascus-Births:*January 19 - Guido Cagnacci, Italian painter of the Bolognese School...
) - October 24 (buried) - Gabriël MetsuGabriel MetsuGabriël Metsu was a Dutch painter of history paintings, genre works and portraits.- Life :Metsu was the son of the Flemish painter Jacques Metsu , who lived most of his days at Leiden, and Jacomijntje Garniers, his third wife, whom he married in 1625. Jacomijntje was the widow of a painter with...
, Dutch painter (b. 16291629 in art-Events:* Pope Urban VIII asks Bernini to sketch possible renovations to the Trevi Fountain-Births:*January - Gabriël Metsu, Dutch painter *September 4 - Lorenzo Pasinelli, Italian painter in a Mannerism style of genre-like allegories...
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- Mario BalassiMario BalassiMario Balassi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Florence and Rome.He began training with Jacopo Ligozzi, then with Matteo Rosselli, and finally with Domenico Passignano who he accompanied him to Rome to work under the papacy of Pope Urban VIII Here he was patronized by...
, Italian painter of the Baroque period (b. 16041604 in art-Paintings:*Caravaggio**John the Baptist**John the Baptist **The Crowning with Thorns I-Births:*July 8 - Christiaen van Couwenbergh, Dutch Golden Age painter...
) - Orfeo BoselliOrfeo BoselliOrfeo Boselli was an Italian sculptor working in Rome. As with most Roman sculptors of the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, a great part of his commissioned work was in restoring and completing fragmentary ancient Roman sculptures...
, Italian sculptor working in Rome (b. 15971597 in art-Works:*Caravaggio**Penitent Magdalene**Rest on the Flight into Egypt**Medusa**Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto*Dong Qichang - Wanluan Thatched Hall...
) - Thomas de KeyserThomas de KeyserThomas de Keyser was a Dutch painter and architect.De Keyser was born and died in Amsterdam. He excelled as a portrait painter, and was the most in-demand portrait painter in the Netherlands until the 1630s, when Rembrandt eclipsed him in popularity...
, Dutch painter and 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...
(b. 15961596 in art-Paintings:Caravaggio - The Lute Player 1596-Births:*January 13 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch landscape painter *February 2 - Jacob van Campen, Dutch artist and architect of the Golden Age...
) - Frans Francken IIIFranckenIn the Francken family of Antwerp in the 16th and 17th centuries were 11 painters. Many bore the same Christian name in succession. Hence there is confusion in the classification of paintings not differing widely in style or execution...
, 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...
painter (b. 16071607 in art-Paintings:* Caravaggio**Saint Jerome Writing**Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt and his Page**Flagellation of Christ**The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew**The Seven Works of Mercy**David with the Head of Goliath ...
) - Luigi PrimoLuigi PrimoLuis Primo was a Flemish painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome, painting portraits and altarpieces.Primo was born at Brussels, and went when young to Rome, where he spent thirty years. He was also nicknamed Luigi Gentile on account of his gentle manners...
, Flemish painter of portraitPortraitthumb|250px|right|Portrait of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[Rembrandt Peale]], 1805. [[New-York Historical Society]].A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness,...
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. 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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- Mario Balassi
- probable - Reinier NoomsReinier NoomsReinier Nooms , also known as Zeeman , was a maritime painter known for his highly detailed paintings and etchings of ships....
, Dutch maritimeOceanAn ocean is a major body of saline water, and a principal component of the hydrosphere. Approximately 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by ocean, a continuous body of water that is customarily divided into several principal oceans and smaller seas.More than half of this area is over 3,000...
painter known for his highly detailed paintings and 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...
s of ships (b. 16231623 in art-Paintings:*Martin Droeshout – First Folio of William Shakespeare's plays* Dirck Hals**Musicians**Prometheus Being Chained by Vulcan* Gerard van Honthorst – The Prodigal Son...
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