Art year 1762
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Events
architecture
- October 19 : The baroque new building of the St. Michaelis Church , which burned down in 1750 , one of the five main churches in Hamburg , based on a design by Johann Leonhard Prey and Ernst Georg Sonnin , and the oratory for the inauguration of the new St. Michaelis Church by Georg Philipp Telemann inaugurated.
- The Fontana di Trevi in Rome , built according to the plans of Nicola Salvi , who died in 1751 , will be completed after 30 years of construction.
- The English architect James Wyatt takes a six-year trip to Italy, particularly Venice, where he becomes familiar with the architecture of Neo-Palladianism .
painting
- The Italian baroque painter Francesco Sozzi paints the fresco Allegory of Wisdom in the Biblioteca di Palazzo Alliata di Pietratagliata in Palermo.
- The British painter George Stubbs made his most famous painting Whistlejacket around 1762 . Stubbs is best known for the anatomically accurate reproduction of his animal motifs.
education
- The painter and art collector Lambert Krahe founds a drawing school from which in 1773 the Dusseldorf Art Academy emerges.
- Anton Raphael Mengs initially publishes the book, Thoughts on Beauty and on Flavors in Painting, anonymously , which is used as a textbook in numerous academies.
Born
- January 17 : Johann Anton August Weitsch , German painter and museum inspector († 1841 )
- February: Eberhard von Wächter , German painter († 1852 )
- April 14 : Giuseppe Valadier , Italian architect, town planner, archaeologist and goldsmith († 1839 )
- June 9 : Luigi Cagnola , Italian architect († 1833 )
- June 16 : Giuseppe Bernardino Bison , Italian classicist painter († 1844 )
- July 1 : Felix Maria Diogg , Swiss portrait painter († 1834 )
- July 22nd : Jakub Hempel , German-Polish architect († 1831 )
- July 25 : Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking , German architect, hydraulic engineer and land surveyor († 1842 )
- September 2 : Luigi Rusca , Swiss architect († 1822 )
- September 6 : Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen , German draftsman and engraver († 1840 )
- September 10 : Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine , French architect († 1853 )
- September 30 : Johann Michael Albaneder , German sculptor, boss and ceramist († 1824 )
- October 8 : Hermann Mitterer , German drawing teacher and lithographer († 1829 )
- October 9 : Ferdinand Collmann , German painter and university professor († 1837 )
- 6 December : Traugott Leberecht Pochmann , German painter († 1830 )
- Marie-Geneviève Bouliar , French classicist painter († 1825 )
- Jan Rustem , Polish portrait painter († 1835 )
- around 1762: James Hoban , Irish architect († 1831 )
Died
Date of death secured
- January 11 : Louis-François Roubiliac , French sculptor (* 1695 )
- January 23 : Michael Leveilly , French architect (* 1694 )
- January 27th : John Rocque , French-Huguenot cartographer and engraver (* before 1709)
- March 4th : Johannes Zick , Bavarian Baroque fresco painter (* 1702 )
- March 18 : Johann Baptist Regondi , imperial court stonemason and sculptor (* 1703 )
- March 26 : Johann Peter Ernst Rohrer , German builder (* 1687 )
- March 30th : Johann Georg Bergmüller , German baroque painter (* 1688 )
- May 17 : Heinrich Matthäus Lohe , German painter (* 1675 )
- May 21 : Ernst Dietrich Bartels , German baroque carver (* 1679 )
- May 28 : Gustav Adolf von Gotter , German diplomat, Freemason and art collector (* 1692 )
- June 5 : Jonas Erikson Sundahl , Swedish builder (* 1678 )
- July 20 : Paul Troger , Austrian late Baroque painter (* 1698 )
- July 27 : Edmé Bouchardon , French sculptor and architect (* 1698 )
- August 20 : Johann Christian Schurries , German sculptor (* 1700 )
- August 31 : Pietro Rotari , Italian portrait painter, court painter in St. Petersburg (* 1707 )
- October 22 : Carl Aigen , Austrian painter (* 1685 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Ernst Braun , German baroque master builder (* around 1700 )
- Ferdinand-Joseph Derons , Belgian watercolor painter and draftsman (* 1700 )
- Rosario Gagliardi , Italian Baroque architect (* 1698 )
- Karl Adolph Kellers , Saxon sculptor
- Charlotte Mercier , French painter (* 1738 )
- around 1762: Andreas Møller , Danish miniature and portrait painter (* 1684 )
See also
Web links
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