1668 in art
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Events from the year 1668 in art.
Events
- The Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford is completed, to a design by Sir Christopher Wren with ceiling paintings by Robert Streater.
Works
- Viviano Codazzi and Filippo Lauri â The Bernini Arsenal at Civitavecchia[1]
- Jan de Bray â The artist and his wife as Ulysses and Penelope
- Jean Baptiste Dieussart â lead statues Amor Dei and Amor Patriae, Riddarhuset, Stockholm
- Gerard de Lairesse â Allegory of the Five Senses
- Charles Le Brun
- La Colère
- Equestrian portrait of Louis XIV
- Adriaen van de Velde â Frozen Canal with Skaters and Hockey Players
- Jan Vermeer
- The Astronomer
- The Art of Painting (probably completed at or by this date)
Births
- date unknown
- Giovanni Battista Cassana, Italian painter of fruit, flowers, and still-life (died 1738)
- Ãtienne-Jehandier Desrochers, French engraver (died 1741)
- Yun TusÅ, Korean painter and scholar of the Joseon period (died 1715)
- Jan Griffier II, English painter (died 1750)
- Clemente Ruta, Italian painter specializing in landscapes with pen and watercolor (died 1767)
- Francesco Maria Schiaffino, Italian sculptor (died 1763)
- Alessandro Specchi, Italian architect and engraver (died 1729)
- Carlo Antonio Tavella, Italian painter of landscapes (died 1738)
- Giuseppe Tonelli, Italian painter of frescoes and quadratura (died 1732)
- Theodor van Pee, Dutch painter (died 1746)
- Domenico Maria Viani, Italian painter of churches, born in Bologna (died 1711)
- Peter Schubart von Ehrenberg, painter and stage designer active in Vienna (d. unknown)
- probable â Giacomo Antonio Arland, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1743)
Deaths
- February 8 â Alessandro Tiarini, Italian Baroque painter of frescoes, façade decorations, and altarpieces (born 1557)
- April 21 â Jan Boeckhorst, German-born Flemish Baroque painter (born 1604)
- May 19 â Philips Wouwerman, Dutch painter (born 1619)
- August 23 â Artus Quellinus the Elder, Flemish sculptor (born 1609)
- September â Jan Miense Molenaer, Dutch genre painter (born 1610)
- September 4 - Titus van Rijn, son and model of Rembrandt (born 1641)
- date unknown
- Benito Manuel Agüero, Spanish painter of the Baroque period (born 1624)
- Giulio Benso, Genovese painter of the early Baroque (born 1592)
- Giovanni Battista Bolognini, Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque (born 1611)
- Philips de Marlier, Flemish Baroque painter and copyist (born 1600)
- Jan Goedart, Dutch painter famous for his illustrations of insects (born 1620)
- Antonio Travi, deaf Italian landscape painter (born 1613)