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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

The 1640s decade ran from January 1, 1640, to December 31, 1649. January 6 – The Siege of Salses ends almost six months after it had started on June 9...

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

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...

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...

The decade of the 1640s in archaeology involved some significant events. 1649: John Aubrey describes the megaliths at Avebury, England. 1643: Athanasius...

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...

Simon Museum is an art museum located in Pasadena, California. It was previously known as the Pasadena Art Institute and the Pasadena Art Museum and displays...

South, Central, and West Asia. In many ways, the history of Eastern art parallels the development of Western art. The art histories of Asia and Europe are...

Woman is a c. 1640 portrait painting painted in the style of Jacob Adriaensz. Backer. It shows an old woman with folded hands. It is in the collection...

of Liège or Antwerp - between 1640 and 1645, Milan) was a Baroque painter of Flemish descent who was active principally in northern Italy during the first...

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

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...

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...