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    Events from the year 1708 in art. Flemish painter and engraver Pieter Casteels III comes to work in Britain. Czech sculptor Ferdinand Brokoff sets up his...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1708. 1708 (MDCCVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday...
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  • in art – Birth of Francesco Guardi 1711 in art – Birth of Carl Gustaf Pilo 1710 in art 1709 in art – Death of Meindert Hobbema, Andrea Pozzo 1708 in art...
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  • article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1708. July 14 – Joseph Trapp becomes the first Oxford Professor of Poetry. unknown...
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  • The year 1708 in science and technology involved some significant events. Herman Boerhaave publishes Institutiones medicae, one of the earliest textbooks...
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    Portrait of Anne Hathaway (category 1708 in art)
    Curzon in 1708, referred to as "Shakespear's Consort". It was probably traced from a lost Elizabethan original. The drawing is currently located in the Colgate...
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  • The year 1708 in music involved some significant musical events and new works. Alessandro Scarlatti returns to Naples from Venice. Johann Sebastian Bach...
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  • The year 1699 in science and technology involved some significant events. English physician Edward Tyson publishes Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris:...
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  • Richard Bentley – A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris (prev. pub. in William Wotton's Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning) Samuel Clarke...
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  • The year 1699 in music involved some significant events. February – Richard Leveridge, Daniel Purcell and Jeremiah Clarke collaborate on the music for...
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    The Nazi regime in Germany actively promoted and censored forms of art between 1933 and 1945. Upon becoming dictator in 1933, Adolf Hitler gave his personal...
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    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...
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  • Officer is performed for the first time, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London. April/May – Philosopher Samuel Clarke attacks the views of Henry Dodwell...
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    Ludolf Bakhuizen (category 1708 deaths)
    Ludolf Bakhuizen (28 December 1630 or 1632 – 7 November 1708) was a German-born Dutch painter, draughtsman, calligrapher and printmaker. He was the leading...
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    An art school is an educational institution with a primary focus on practice and related theory in the visual arts and design. This includes fine art –...
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    Quimper faience (category 1708 establishments in France)
    produced in a factory near Quimper, in Brittany, France. Faience operations were started by Jean-Baptiste Bousquet, a potter from Marseille, in 1690 and...
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  • The year 1708 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. October 26 - St Paul's Cathedral in London, England, designed...
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  • Events from the year 1713 in art. Construction of Hogarth's House in London begins. Sir Godfrey Kneller – James Brydges and his family Sebastiano Ricci...
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    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...
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    List of Edison Blue Amberol Records: Popular Series (category Articles lacking in-text citations from February 2018)
    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...
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  • year 1883. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain...
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    Böttgers invention 1708, Dresden). An important collection of antique porcelain is preserved in the Russian Museum of Ceramics. The people in North, Central...
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    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:...
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  • was a pastelist of uncertain origin active in the English colonies in North America from approximately 1708 until her death. She is both the earliest recorded...
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  • 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...
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  • stimulate an interest in reading, and usually involved an actor reading an abridged version of a children's novel or folk tale whilst seated in an armchair. A...
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  • 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...
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    (in Italian). 49 (2): 61–66. doi:10.1708/1461.16139. ISSN 2038-2502. PMID 24770571. Jones, Jonathan (18 December 2018). "Stendhal syndrome: can art really...
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  • year 1891. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain...
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