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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Baroque (redirect from Baroque Art and Architecture)
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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List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1883 (category 1880s in the United Kingdom)
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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year 1859. 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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Stendhal syndrome (redirect from Art panic attack)
(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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List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1891 (category 1890s in the United Kingdom)
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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