Events from the year 1720 in art. May 2 – James Thornhill, Serjeant Painter to King George I of Great Britain, is knighted, the first native English artist...
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1720. 1720 (MDCCXX) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday...
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Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden (category 1720 in art)
of Saxony. The art chamber of the House of Wettin, established around 1560, became an independent museum of prints and drawings in 1720. The collection...
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events and publications of 1720. September–October – The "South Sea Bubble", i.e. the collapse of the South Sea Company in England, affects the fortunes...
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Great Sickness & Lamented Deaths of Divers Eminent Persons in Springfield, a jeremiad composed in hymnal meter, describing the benefits of living righteously...
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year 1720 in music. April – The Royal Academy of Music, a company formed for Handel in London, begins to produce operas. Giovanni Bononcini arrives in London...
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Still Life Paintings from the Netherlands 1550–1720, (Dutch:Het Nederlandse Stilleven 1550–1720) is a 1999 art exhibition catalog published for a jointly...
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Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the third-largest museum in the world...
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Kingdom of Sardinia was the Savoyard state of the Kingdom of Sardinia from 1720 to 1861. The kingdom united the island of Sardinia with the mainland possessions...
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The year 1720 in science and technology involved some significant events. February 10 – Edmond Halley is appointed as Astronomer Royal of England. May...
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The year 1711 in music involved some significant events. February 24 – The London premiere of Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera...
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The year 1711 in science and technology involved some significant events. Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli shows that coral is an animal rather than a plant as...
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Defoe (attr.) – A Vindication of the Press Charles Gildon – The Complete Art of Poetry Mary Hearne – The Lover's Week Simon Ockley – The History of the...
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1700 Caravaggisti – 1590 – 1650 Rococo – 1720 – 1780, began in France Neoclassicism – 1750 – 1830, began in Rome Later Cretan School, Cretan Renaissance...
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but with a primary emphasis on its aesthetic visual form. Visual art can be classified in diverse ways, such as separating fine arts from applied arts; inclusively...
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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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Matthew Craske (category European art historian stubs)
trade in monumental sculpture and the imagery of the family in monumental art, 1720-1760". Art in Europe 1700-1830: A history of the visual arts in an era...
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"The Molo from the Basin of San Marco, Venice". The San Diego Museum of Art. Archived from the original on 8 January 2016. Retrieved 20 September 2014...
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L'Enseigne de Gersaint (category 1720 paintings)
oil on canvas painting in the Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin, by French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau. Completed during 1720–21, it is considered to...
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Scene in 'Change Alley in 1720 is an 1847 history painting by the British artist Edward Matthew Ward. It depicts a scene in Exchange Alley in the City...
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1644 (redirect from Events in 1644)
of Sweden (d. 1716) February 8 – Pierre de La Broue, American bishop (d. 1720) February 12 – Jakob Ammann, Swiss founder of the Amish sect (d. 1712) February...
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Sewerby Hall (category Houses completed in 1720)
present Sewerby Hall between 1714–1720, replacing the manor house which had existed on the site for many years. John died in 1746 at the age of 83. His son...
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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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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...
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(1998), Art in Mississippi, 1720–1980, Univ. Press of Mississippi, p. 290, ISBN 978-1-57806-084-9 Black, Patti Carr (1998), Art in Mississippi, 1720–1980...
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ca. 1717 Milagros del beato Salvador de Horta, ca. 1720 Mexican art Bailey, Gauvin Alexander. Art of Colonial Latin America. London: Phaidon 2005. Katzew...
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Rococo (redirect from Rococo Art Period)
Houghton Hall, for Devonshire House in London, and at Rousham House. Mahogany made its appearance in England in about 1720, and immediately became popular...
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art of the United Kingdom refers to all forms of visual art in or associated with the country since the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707...
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from the year 1711 in art. October 16 – Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts established in Brussels. Fresco of c.1480 by Melozzo da Forlì in Santi Apostoli, Rome...
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