1677 in art
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Events from the year 1677 in art.
Events
- Mosaics are created in St Mark's Basilica, Venice, from cartoons by Giovanni Antonio Fumiani.
Paintings
- 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.
- Jan Siberechts â A View from Richmond Hill
Births
- October 23 â Giuseppe Antonio Petrini, painter (died 1755/1759)
- November 29 â 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 â Evaristo Baschenis, Italian Baroque painter primarily of still lifes (born 1617)
- March 25 â Wenceslaus Hollar (Václav Hollar), Bohemian-born etcher working in England (born 1607)
- April 20 â Mathieu Le Nain, French painter (born 1607)
- August 28 â 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
- November 9 â 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)