Events from the year 1660 in art. November – The Dutch Gift: a collection including 28 mostly Italian Renaissance paintings and a dozen classical sculptures...

1660 (MDCLX) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1660th year...

The Dutch Gift of 1660 was a collection of 24 mostly Italian Renaissance paintings, four by Dutch Masters, and twelve classical sculptures. The gift was...

1662 in art 1661 in art 1660 in art – Death of Diego Velázquez 1659 in art – Rembrandt completes Jacob Wrestling with the Angel 1658 in art 1657 in art 1656...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1660. January 11 – Samuel Pepys starts his diary, still using the Old Style date...

reinstatement in May 1660 of the Stuart monarchy in England, Scotland, and Ireland. It replaced the Commonwealth of England, established in January 1649...

The Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660–1851 is a biographical dictionary of sculptors active in Britain in the period between the Restoration of Charles...

The year 1660 in science and technology involved some significant events. November 28 – At Gresham College in London, twelve men, including Christopher...

with a Busy Woman, 1650. National Gallery of Art, Washington, US: Young Woman in an Interior, ca. 1660. Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France:...

Altman Collection, it has been in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City since 1913. The Altman portrait is dated 1660, when Rembrandt was fifty-four...

different techniques in chemistry. English physician John French publishes The Art of Distillation, the first detailed handbook in English on distillation...

characters of sundry personages: and other incomparable pieces of language and art "By the curious pensil of the ever memorable Sr Henry Wotton Kt, late, provost...

The year 1660 in music involved some significant events. Dieterich Buxtehude becomes organist at Helsingør in Denmark. Pelham Humphrey and John Blow become...

Ramdas, Cholas,Nayakas and Indian Classical Art-Bharatanatyam). Notion Press. ISBN 978-1-948230-95-7."In 1660, Siddi Johar's huge and daunting army attacked...

interregnum in the British Isles began with the execution of Charles I in January 1649 (and from September 1651 in Scotland) and ended in May 1660 when his...

Govert (or Govaert) Teuniszoon Flinck (25 January 1615 – 2 February 1660) was a Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age. Born at Kleve, capital of the Duchy...

be in force or had become necessary. The act was intended, in particular, to facilitate the preparation of a revised edition of the statutes. In the...

on May 29 of this year Sir Robert Howard, Poems John Phillips, Montelion, 1660; or, The Proheticall Almanack, published under the pen name "Montelion, knight...

Indies Company slave ship Leusden capsizes and sinks in the Maroni River during its arrival in Surinam. The Dutch crew escapes, and leaves the slaves...

year 1897. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain...

Lithuanian-German Schlager singer Gloria Gaynor, American disco singer September 9 – Art LaFleur, American actor (d. 2021) September 10 Daniel Truhitte, American...

French singer July 4 Joe Berardo, Portuguese businessman, investor and art collector Joe Critchlow, Canadian football player Albert Kapengut, Soviet...

year 1814. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain...

Government Printing Office. p. 1. Gamboni, Dario (1997). The Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism Since the French Revolution. Reaktion Books. p...

year 1899. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain...

Events from the year 1654 in art. October 12 – The Delft Explosion destroys the city of Delft, killing painter Carel Fabritius and destroying his home...

with a Water Pitcher, is a painting finished between 1660–1662 by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer in the Baroque style. It is oil on canvas, 45.7cm × 40...

remained in localized use until 1923. January 1 – Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, in the South...

King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685. Charles II was the eldest surviving child of...

books. Most book names are not written in full. They are abbreviated from their Latin names which can be seen in the article Books of the Vulgate. Example:...