Events from the year 1668 in art. The Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford is completed, to a design by Sir Christopher Wren with ceiling paintings by Robert Streater...

1668 (MDCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1668th...

in art – Birth of Claude Gillot 1672 in art 1671 in art 1670 in art – Death of Viviano Codazzi 1669 in art – Death of Rembrandt 1668 in art 1667 in art...

The year 1668 in science and technology involved some significant events. Isaac Newton invents the reflecting telescope. Francesco Redi publishes Esperienze...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1668. c. February – The English Parliament and bishops seek to suppress Thomas...

The year 1659 in science and technology involved some significant events. Christiaan Huygens publishes Systema Saturnium, including the first illustration...

Hull in England's Third Protectorate Parliament. August – William Davenant is briefly imprisoned for his part in George Booth's Cheshire uprising in favor...

was executed sometime between 1665/1668, but some suggest the work could have been created as late as 1670–1675. In 1663 Vermeer had been visited by Balthasar...

Oosterwijck; 1668; oil on canvas; 73 x 88.5 cm; Kunsthistorisches Museum Carpet with fame and fortitude; by the Savonnerie manufactory; 1668–1685; knotted...

In European academic traditions, fine art (or, fine arts) is made primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from popular art...

was the only laureate not to die in office until Andrew Motion in 1999. Shadwell held the office until his death in 1692.) Sir John Denham, Poems and...

Events from the year 1668 in England. Monarch – Charles II 17 January – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, fights a duel with Francis Talbot, 11th...

eight toise — 15.6 metres (51 ft) — tall. In 1783, rules are implemented to consider the width of the street. 1668 – Roger Pratt becomes the first person...

Desk". The Art Institute of Chicago. Graur, Neaga (1970). Stiluri în arta decorativă (in Romanian). Cerces. p. 168. Graur, Neaga (1970). Stiluri în arta decorativă...

painter (born 1668) Antoine Aveline, French engraver (born 1691) Pietro Paolo Cristofari, Italian artist responsible for a number of the mosaics in St. Peter's...

dynasty in China; much taken by the Diamond mountain landscape. Yun Duseo (1668–1715), a portraitist. Kim Hong-do (1745–c. 1806) aka Danwon in his pen...

often taken from existing art galleries in Germany and Europe as Nazi forces invaded. Hitler planned to create a large museum in Linz called the Führermuseum...

held at Rijksmuseum Twenthe in Enschede. Well-known paintings by de Lairesse include his Allegory of the Five Senses (1668), Diana and Endymion (c. 1680)...

Adoration of the Shepherds is a c. 1668 oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, his second surviving work on that subject after a c.1650 version...

Versailles The Art of Painting; by Johannes Vermeer; 1666–1668; oil on canvas; 1.3 x 1.1 m; Kunsthistorisches Museum Carpet with fame and fortitude; 1668–1685;...

Titus van Rijn (22 September 1641 – 4 September 1668) was one of two children of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn who survived to adulthood, and the only...

Events from the year 1659 in art. Frescoes at the Quirinal Palace in Rome are completed by Pietro da Cortona and his team of artists. Peter Lely – A Boy...

The year 1667 in science and technology involved some significant events. June 24 – The site of the Paris Observatory is located on the Paris Meridian...

Irish or France). In Denmark, Anders Bording begins publishing Den Danske Meercurius ("The Danish Mercury"), a monthly newspaper in rhyme, using alexandrine...

The year 1669 in science and technology involved some significant events. February 23 – Isaac Newton writes his first description of his new invention...

Robert Gordon (1668–1731) was a Scottish merchant and philanthropist. He is most well known for his founding of a charitable hospital which later evolved...

Monthly Discussions") was a magazine based in the Holy Roman Empire, now Germany. Issued from 1663 to 1668, it was published monthly. The publication...

archaeologist (b. c.1600) Theodore Ayrault Dodge (1896). Hannibal: A History of the Art of War Among the Carthaginians and Romans Down to the Battle of Pydna, 168...

based upon a controversial interpretation of a text written in 1668 by printer Arnold Bon. Art historians have found no hard evidence to support this. Local...

The year 1659 in music involved some significant events. Final printing of Parthenia, the first printed collection of music for keyboard in Britain. Fray...