1700 in art

Events from the year 1700 in art.

Events

• Luca Giordano returns to Naples a wealthy man after the death of his patron, Charles II of Spain.
• Pierre Le Gros the Younger is elected to the Accademia di San Luca.

Works

• Richard Brakenburgh – A May Queen Festival
• Pierre Gobert
  • Portrait of Abbé Fleury
  • Portrait of Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Chartres
• Sir Godfrey Kneller – Portrait of Lady Mary Berkeley, wife of Thomas Chambers
• Sebastiano Ricci
  • Frescoes and Saint Gregory the Great intercedes with the Madonna in chapel of Santissimo Sacramento in church of Abbey of Santa Giustina, Padua
  • Venus and Cupid (approximate date: 1549

Births

• January 1 – Antonio Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/painter, also at Vienna Hofburg (died 1774)
• January 8 – Augustyn Mirys, Polish painter (died 1790)
• March 3 – Charles-Joseph Natoire, French painter (died 1777)
• May 12 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian-born architect (died 1773)
• August 18 – Lars Pinnerud, Norwegian farmer and woodcarver (died 1762)
• September 25 – Gaetano Zompini, Italian printmaker and engraver (died 1778)
• October 10 – Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (died 1759)
• date unknown
  • Bernard Baron, French engraver (died 1766)
  • Elizabeth Blackwell, Scottish botanical illustrator and author (died 1758)^[1]
  • Francesco Caccianiga, Italian painter and engraver (died 1781)
  • Tommaso Costanzi, Italian gem engraver of the late-Baroque period (died 1747)
  • Michel-François Dandré-Bardon, French historical painter and etcher (died 1785)
  • Antonio Joli, Italian painter of veduta (died 1777)
  • Krzysztof Perwanger, Polish sculptor and mayor (died 1785)
  • Felice Polanzani, Italian engraver (died 1771)
  • Rocco Pozzi, Italian painter and engraver (died 1780)
  • Ivan Ranger, Austrian painter (died 1753)
  • Antonio Rossi, Italian painter (died 1773)
  • Mattheus Verheyden, Dutch painter (died 1776)
  • Jacopo Zoboli, Italian etcher and painter of altarpieces and portraits (died 1765)
  • Gaetano Zompini, Italian printmaker and engraver (died 1778)
• probable – Giuseppe Peroni, Italian painter of frescoes (died 1776)

Deaths

• March 4 – Lorenzo Pasinelli, Italian painter in a Mannerist style of genre-like allegories (born 1629)
• May 30 – Antoine Masson, French line engraver (born 1636)^[2]
• July 2 – Lambert Doomer, Dutch painter (born 1624)
• September 15 – André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (born 1613)
• October 29 – Giovanni Giacomo Borni, Italian painter, active in Lombardy (born 1635)
• November 7 – Pietro Santi Bartoli, painter and engraver (born 1635)
• date unknown
  • Francisco Antolínez, Spanish historical and landscape painter (born 1644)
  • Pietro Bellotti, Italian painter (born 1625)
  • Agostino Bonisoli, Italian painter, active mainly in Cremona (born 1633)
  • Caius Gabriel Cibber, Danish sculptor active in England (born 1630)
  • Ricardo do Pilar, Brazilian monk and painter (born 1635)
  • Matteo Ghidoni, Italian painter of burlesque genre paintings (date of birth unknown)
  • Agostino Lamma, Italian painter specializing in battle paintings (born 1636)
  • Pedro Nuñez de Villavicencio, Spanish painter (born 1635)
  • Johannes Skraastad, Norwegian woodcarver (born 1648)
  • Hans van Steenwinckel the Youngest, Danish sculptor and architect (born 1639)
  • Jacobus Storck, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1641)
  • Giovanni Maria Viani, Italian painter and etcher (born 1636)
  • Muhammad Zaman, Safavid calligrapher and painter (born unknown)
• probable
  • Edmund Ashfield, English portrait painter and miniaturist (born unknown)
  • Giulio Giacinto Avellino, Italian painter (born 1645)
  • Bernardo Polo, Spanish painter depicting still-life paintings of fruit and flowers (born unknown)

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