1626 in art
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Works
- Rembrandt
- The Angel and the Prophet Balaam
- Consul Cerialis and the Germanic Legions
- A Musical Gathering
- The Rest on the Flight to Egypt (etching)
- Tobit and Anna with the Kid
Births
- September 27 – Karel DujardinKarel DujardinKarel Dujardin was a Dutch painter.-Biography:Karel Dujardin was a Dutch painter and etcher, born in Amsterdam in 1622. Although active as a portrait and history painter, he is best known for his Italianate landscapes. Typical of his landscape paintings is Farm Animals in the Shade of a Tree...
, 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...
animal and landscape 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...
) - November 30 - Cesare ProntiCesare ProntiCesare Pronti was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly near Ravenna.He was born at Cattolica, near Rimini, and was brought up at Bologna, training in that city under Guercino. He then helped complete the quadratura for the villa Albizzi in Bologna, working with Carlo Cignani...
, Italian painter of quadratura and allegorical figures (d. 17081708 in art-Events:*Flemish painter and engraver Pieter Casteels III comes to work in Britain.*Sculptor Ferdinand Brokoff sets up his own studio.-Publications:*Roger de Piles - Cours de peinture par principes avec un balance de peintres-Births:...
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- Alessandro BadialeAlessandro BadialeAlessandro Badiale was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period, active in Bologna. He was a pupil of Flaminio Torre. Among his etchings are prints of Virgin seated with the Infant Jesus, between St. Philip Neri and St. Anthony of Padua, a Deposition and a Holy Family after Flaminio...
, Italian painter and engraver (d. 16711671 in art-Events:*The Discalced Carmelites of Vilnius build a wooden chapel to house the painting Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn.-Works:*Gerard de Lairesse – Three ceiling paintings for Andries de Graeff, now at the Peace Palace in The Hague...
) - Pieter BoelPieter BoelPieter Boel was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialised in lavish still lifes.-Biography:Boel was born in Antwerp. He probably went to Italy in 1650. In 1668, he worked for Charles Le Brun in his first tapestry making studio...
, Flemish painter (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...
) - Jan van de CappelleJan van de CappelleJan van de Cappelle was a Dutch Golden Age painter of seascapes and winter landscapes, also notable as an industrialist and art collector. He is "now considered the outstanding marine painter of 17th century Holland"...
, 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...
painter of seascapes and winter landscapes (d. 16791679 in art-Works:*François de Troy - Portrait of Nils Bielke*Memorial painting of Isaac Bargrave in Canterbury Cathedral, attributed to Cornelius Jansen-Births:*January 27 – Jean-François de Troy, French painter *April 24 - Francesco Mancini, painter...
) - Andrea CarloneAndrea CarloneAndrea Carlone was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in his natal city of Genoa.He was the son of the painter Giovanni Battista Carlone and Niccoletta Scorza. He traveled and painted extensively through Italy. After initial work with his father, he traveled to Venice for a...
, Italian painter (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...
) - Carlo CesioCarlo CesioCarlo Cesio, a painter and engraver of the Roman school, was born at Androdoco, in the Roman States, in 1626. He was brought up at Rome, in the school of Pietro da Cortona, and was employed with some of the best artists of his time in several public works during the pontificate of Alexander VII. He...
, Italian painter active 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...
(d. 16861686 in art-Events:*Pierre Granier is commissioned to provide a new right arm for the recently-discovered Jupiter de Smyrne.*Bogdan Saltanov becomes head of the painting workshop of the Kremlin Armoury.-Births:...
) - Lorenzo TintiLorenzo TintiLorenzo Tinti was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period. He was born in Bologna and was a pupil of Giovanni Andrea Sirani, and painted altar-pieces for the churches in Bologna, among them Scourging of Christ for the church of La Madonna del Piombo; and the Virgin and Child with...
, Italian painter and engraver (d. 16721672 in art-Paintings: *Kanō Tanyū – 春景図 -Births:*October 18 – Giuseppe Antonio Caccioli, Italian painter *date unknown**Alberto Carlieri – Italian painter of the late-Baroque period...
) - Simon UshakovSimon UshakovSimon Fyodorovich Ushakov was a leading Russian graphic artist of the late 17th-century. Together with Fyodor Zubov and Fyodor Rozhnov, he is associated with the comprehensive reform of the Russian Orthodox Church undertaken by Patriarch Nikon.-Biography:We know almost nothing about the early...
, Russian graphic artist (d. 16861686 in art-Events:*Pierre Granier is commissioned to provide a new right arm for the recently-discovered Jupiter de Smyrne.*Bogdan Saltanov becomes head of the painting workshop of the Kremlin Armoury.-Births:...
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- Alessandro Badiale
- probable
- Bada Shanren (also known as Zhou Da), 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...
calligrapher and painter of shuimohua (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...
) - Francis BarlowFrancis Barlow (artist)Francis Barlow was an English painter, etcher, and illustrator.-Life:Barlow's first major work was the illustration of Edward Benlowe's Theophila...
, English painter, etcher, and illustrator (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...
) - Pierre PrieurPierre PrieurPierre Prieur was a French enamel painter.He married Marie , sister of Jean Petitot, as her second husband. In 1669 he was in England, painting a miniature of Charles II of England and another of Lady Castlemaine, both after Cooper, for the king of Denmark...
, French enamelVitreous enamelVitreous enamel, also porcelain enamel in U.S. English, is a material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between 750 and 850 °C...
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...
) - Jan SteenJan SteenJan Havickszoon Steen was a Dutch genre painter of the 17th century . Psychological insight, sense of humour and abundance of colour are marks of his trade.-Life:...
, Dutch genre 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. 16791679 in art-Works:*François de Troy - Portrait of Nils Bielke*Memorial painting of Isaac Bargrave in Canterbury Cathedral, attributed to Cornelius Jansen-Births:*January 27 – Jean-François de Troy, French painter *April 24 - Francesco Mancini, painter...
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- Bada Shanren (also known as Zhou Da), Chinese
Deaths
- February 21 - Cardinal Odoardo Farnese, patron of the arts (b. 1573)
- February 23 – Enea SalmeggiaEnea SalmeggiaEnea Salmeggia was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period, active mainly in his native city of Bergamo....
, Italian painter from Bergamo (b. c. 1556) - April - Antiveduto GrammaticaAntiveduto GrammaticaAntiveduto Grammatica was a proto-Baroque Italian painter, active near Rome.Grammatica was born in either Siena or Rome. According to Giovanni Baglione the artist was given the name Antiveduto because his father had a premonition that he would be soon be born during a journey between his native...
– proto-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...
Italian painter nicknamed Antiveduto ("foreseen") (b. 15711571 in art-Births:* September 29 – Caravaggio, Italian painter and one of the first great representatives of the Baroque school * Antiveduto Grammatica – proto-Baroque Italian painter nicknamed Antiveduto...
) - September 8 – Juan Sánchez CotánJuan Sánchez CotánJuan Sánchez Cotán was a Spanish Baroque painter, a pioneer of realism in Spain. His still lifes, also called bodegones were painted in a strikingly austere style, especially when compared to similar works in Netherlands and Italy.- Life:Sánchez Cotán was born in the town of Orgaz, near Toledo, Spain...
, Spanish painter (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...
) - September 9 – Abraham GovaertsAbraham GovaertsAbraham Govaerts was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in small cabinet-sized forest landscapes in the manner of Jan Brueghel the Elder and Gillis van Coninxloo. He became a master in Antwerp's guild of St. Luke in 1607–1608, and subsequently trained several other painters in including...
, Flemish painter of cabinet works - date unknown
- Agustín del CastilloAgustín del CastilloAgustín del Castillo was a Spanish Baroque painter.Del Castillo was born in Seville, and was an older brother of the painter Juan del Castillo. Both brothers were trained in painting by Luis Fernández in Seville. Afterwards he moved to Córdoba, where he painted religious frescoes and oil...
, Spanish painter (b. 1565) - Anastasio FontebuoniAnastasio FontebuoniAnastasio Fontebuoni was an Italian Baroque painter, native of Florence. Fontebuoni proved to be one of the Florentine painters are more open to the influence of Caravaggio's naturalism. Fontebuoni was educated in the school of Domenico Passignano. According to Giovanni Baglioni, he visited Rome...
, Italian painter (b. 1571) - Pier Francesco MazzucchelliPier Francesco MazzucchelliPier Francesco Mazzucchelli was an Italian painter of the early Baroque era in Milan....
, Italian painter of frescoes 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. 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...
) - Cristoforo RoncalliCristoforo RoncalliCristoforo Roncalli was an Italian mannerist painter. He was one of the three painters known as il Pomarancio.Roncalli was born in Pomarance, a town near Volterra...
, Italian painter (b. 15521552 in art-Births:* Hans von Aachen – German mannerist painter * Alessandro Casolano – Italian painter primarily working in Siena * Cristoforo Roncalli – Italian painter * Lavinia Fontana – Italian painter...
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- Agustín del Castillo
- probable – Denis van AlslootDenis van AlslootDaniel or Denis van Alsloot was a Flemish Baroque painter.-Biography:He initially painted using the style of Gillis van Coninxloo, but after 1610 gradually developed a style of his own...
, Flemish painter (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...
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