Events from the year 1640 in art. Nicolas Poussin completes the first series of Seven Sacraments. Abraham van Linge begins painting the windows for the...

1640 (MDCXL) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1640th year...

1646 in art 1645 in art 1644 in art 1643 in art 1642 in art – Rembrandt completes the Night Watch, Death of Guido Reni 1641 in art 1640 in art – Death...

The year 1640 in science and technology involved some significant events. John Parkinson publishes Theatrum Botanicum:The Theater of Plants, or, An Herbal...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1640. January 21 – Salmacida Spolia, a masque written by Sir William Davenant...

the Smoking Flame (also titled in French La Madeleine à la veilleuse, and La Madeleine à la flamme filante) is a c. 1640 oil-on-canvas depiction of Mary...

The Rainbow Landscape is a 1640 oil-on-panel painting by Peter Paul Rubens, now in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. One of the painter's last works and the...

Ordination (Christ Presenting the Keys to Saint Peter) , c. 1636–1640, Kimbell Art Museum Landscape with Polyphemus, 1649, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg...

Vulcan (1640) Horace's Art of Poetry, translated by Jonson (1640), with a commendatory verse by Edward Herbert Underwood (1640) English Grammar (1640) Timber...

from 1621 to his death and (as Philip III) King of Portugal from 1621 to 1640. Philip is remembered for his patronage of the arts, including such artists...

Blanco) Angelo Michele Bartolotti – Libro primo di chitarra spagnola, published in Florence Scipione Dentice – Second book of madrigali spirituali for five voices...

Affections of a Pious Soule, unto our Savior-Christ, prose and poetry Ben Jonson: Art of Poetry, translated from the Latin of Horace; also contains Execration...

main centre for the European art of the Upper Paleolithic,[citation needed] then left many megalithic monuments, and in the Iron Age many of the most...

year 1631 in science and technology involved some significant events. November 7 – Using Kepler's predictions of planetary transits made in 1630, Pierre...

Reformation and Catholic Revival, but the existence of important Baroque art and architecture in non-absolutist and Protestant states throughout Western Europe...

Revels in England refuses to license Philip Massinger's new play, Believe as You List, because of its seditious content; it is first performed in a revised...

Art of ancient Egypt Ancient Egyptian art refers to art produced in ancient Egypt between the 6th millennium BC and the 4th century AD, spanning from...

Steenwijck. Created around 1640, the work is an allegorical vanitas. It has been in the collection of the National Gallery in London since 1888. The painting...

year 1846. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain...

company in the U.S. from 1912 to 1929. Made from a nitrocellulose compound developed at the Edison laboratory—though occasionally employing Bakelite in its...

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...

Events from the year 1640 in Ireland. Monarch: Charles I 5 December – John Atherton, Church of Ireland Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, and his proctor...

year 1875. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain...

significant contributions to Carolingian art, Ottonian art, and Norman art, as well as the flourishing of Byzantine art in cities such as Ravenna. Italy was...

enactments from 1742 to 1830 which had ceased to be in force or had become unnecessary. The act was intended, in particular, to facilitate the preparation of...

year 1866. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain...

was Tokugawa Iemitsu's daughter with his concubine, Ofuri no Kata (died 1640), daughter of Oka Shigemasa, also known as Jishō'in. After Ofuri died, Chiyohime...

year 1887. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain...

The historical evolution of the nude in art runs parallel to the history of art in general, except for small particularities derived from the different...

Funerary art in Puritan New England encompasses graveyard headstones carved between c. 1640 and the late 18th century by the Puritans, founders of the...