1677 in art

Events from the year 1677 in art.

Events

• Mosaics are created in St Mark's Basilica, Venice, from cartoons by Giovanni Antonio Fumiani.

Paintings

Le Brun – Apotheose of Louis XIV, Budapest Museum of Fine Arts

• Claude Lorrain paints The Voyage of Jacob in his late Roman period.
• Thomas Flatman paints miniature portraits.
• Pietro Giarguzzi - The Holy Trinity crowning the Blessed Virgin Mary (fresco) at San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane.^[1]
• Abraham Hondius - The Frozen Thames, a view over the Thames to the old London Bridge during the Little Ice Age.
• Pieter de Hooch - A Musical Party in a Courtyard.
• Charles Le Brun - Apotheose of Louis XIV.

Births

• October 23 – Giuseppe Antonio Petrini, painter (died 1755/1759)
• November 29 – Guillaume Coustou the Elder, French sculptor and academician (died 1746)
• date unknown
  • Pompeo Aldrovandini, Italian painter (died 1735)
  • Lovia Casalina, Italian woman portrait-painter (died 1702)
  • Louis Du Guernier, French engraver (died 1716)
  • Abraham Rademaker, Dutch painter and printmaker (died 1735)
  • Jean Raoux, French painter (died 1734)
• probable
  • Antonio Dardani, Italian painter (died 1735)
  • Gasparo Lopez, Italian painter of flowers (died 1732)

Deaths

• March 16 – Evaristo Baschenis, Italian Baroque painter primarily of still lifes (born 1617)
• March 25 – Wenceslaus Hollar (Václav Hollar), Bohemian-born etcher working in England (born 1607)
• April 20 – Mathieu Le Nain, French painter (born 1607)
• August 28 – Wallerant Vaillant, Flemish painter and mezzotint engraver (born 1623), painted A Young Boy Copying a Painting and engraved Woman Peeling Fruit and A Boy Drawing a Bust of the Emperor Vitellius^[2]
• November 9 – Aert van der Neer, Dutch painter (born 1603)
• November 18 - Claude Audran the Elder, French engraver (born 1597)
• date unknown
  • Giacomo Alboresi, Italian painter (born 1632)
  • Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi, Italian painter and etcher (born 1618)
  • Jan Peeters I, Flemish seascape painter (born 1624)
  • Cristoforo Savolini, Italian painter of altarpieces (born 1639)
  • Wang Jian, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty (born 1598)

References