Art year 1760
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Overview of the Art Years
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Events
architecture
On May 18, after 27 years of construction, the Jesuit Church in Mannheim was consecrated to Saints Ignatius von Loyola and Franz Xaver by the Augsburg Prince-Bishop Joseph Ignaz Philipp von Hessen-Darmstadt on behalf of the Worms Bishop Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein . Today it is considered one of the most important baroque churches in southwest Germany.
- Robert Mylne wins the contract to build Blackfriars Bridge over the Thames in London.
Painting and sculpture
The Austrian baroque sculptor Josef Stammel creates one of his main works, The Four Last Things that are in Admont Abbey today . They are among the best works of alpine baroque sculpture.
The Italian baroque painter Francesco Sozzi paints the fresco cycle The Four Seasons in Palazzo Isnello in Palermo.
literature
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann publishes the work Description des pierres gravées de feu Baron de Stosch in Florence on the collection of antique gems and gem impressions of Philipp von Stosch, who died in 1757 . In it he describes numerous Etruscan works of art such as the Stosch stone and the Etruscan scarab with Tydeus .
Others
- The Society of Artists of Great Britain is founded in London . Founding members include Joshua Reynolds , Francis Hayman , Richard Wilson, and Richard Dalton , among others . You are organizing a first exhibition in April, which is one of the first joint exhibitions of contemporary artists in England, along with the Royal Society of Arts exhibition that same year .
- During his two-year stay in Vienna, Bernardo Bellotto , known as Canaletto , received news of the destruction of his house and the destruction of part of his works of art by the Prussian bombardment of Dresden from July 14th to 20th, 1760. His wife and daughters were unharmed, but the damage by destroying part of his works of art and printing plates amounts to 50,000 thalers.
- The 18-year-old Angelika Kauffmann sets off with her father on a multi-year trip to Italy to study the art of antiquity and the Renaissance .
Born
- January 20 : Ferdinand Bauer , Austrian botanical draftsman († 1826 )
- March 16 : Johann Heinrich Meyer , Swiss painter and art writer ( 1832 )
- March 20 : Joseph Christian Lillie , Danish architect and interior designer († 1827 )
- October 12 : Charles Paul Landon , French painter and art writer († 1826 )
- presumably October 31 : Katsushika Hokusai , Japanese painter, one of the most important representatives of Ukiyo-e († 1849 )
- November 11 : Landolin Ohmacht , German sculptor († 1834 )
- 1760 or 1761 : Lemuel Francis Abbott , English portrait painter († 1802 )
Died
- January 23 : Giovanni Antonio Guardi , Italian painter, co-founder of the Venetian Academy (* 1699 )
- April 11th : Louis de Silvestre , French painter, court painter in Saxony (* 1675 )
- December 9 : Josef Ferdinand Fromiller , Austrian painter (* 1693 )
