Art year 1766
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Overview of the Art Years
Further events
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Events
archeology
- The sports and temple facilities at Olympia are being rediscovered.
architecture
- Launched by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz in Baroque style built Drottningholm Theater in Drottningholm Palace in Stockholm is inaugurated.
painting
- The Danish painter Jens Juel paints the self-portrait at the easel in oil on canvas .
Theory and teaching
- In his work Laokoon or Beyond the Boundaries of Mahlerey and Poetry , Gotthold Ephraim Lessing tries to work out the fundamental artistic differences between visual art and poetry . The treatise gained an extraordinary influence on the visual arts and art theory .
- During his student days in Leipzig, Johann Wolfgang Goethe learned the techniques of woodcut , etching and copperplate engraving from Johann Michael Stock .
Born
- February 19 : William Dunlap , American painter and writer († 1839 )
- March 16 : Johann Friedrich von Waldeck , French antiquarian, cartographer, painter and explorer († 1875 )
- August 18 : Franz Johann Joseph von Reilly , Austrian publisher, cartographer and writer († 1820 )
- November 24th : Friedrich Weinbrenner , Baden architect and master builder of classicism († 1826 )
- Faustino Anderloni , Italian engraver († 1847 )
Died
- January 23 : William Caslon , British engraver and type designer (* 1692 )
- February 10 : Andrea Gallasini , Italian-German plasterer and architect (* 1681 )
- March 4 : Jacques-André-Joseph Camelot Aved , French portrait painter, art collector and art dealer (* 1702 )
- March 4th : Peter Thumb , master builder from Vorarlberg (* 1681 )
- March 7th : Robert Gardelle , Swiss painter, engraver and etcher (* 1682 )
- May 6 : Johann Michael Fischer , German builder (* 1692 )
- May 13 : Martin Hannibal , German coin die cutter and medalist (* around 1704 )
- June 3 : Giuseppe Nogari , Venetian painter (* 1699 )
- July 17th : Giuseppe Castiglione , Italian Jesuit, missionary and painter (* 1688 )
- September 1st : Peter Anich , Austrian cartographer and pioneer of high mountain cartography (* 1723 )
- September 6th : Johann Boumann , German builder (* around 1706 )
- September 25 : Michael Christoph Emanuel Hagelgans , German painter (* 1725 )
- November 7th : Jean Marc Nattier , French painter (* 1685 )
- November 12th : Lukas Anton van der Auwera , Franconian sculptor (* 1710 )
- November 16 : Dominikus Zimmermann , German plasterer and master builder of the Rococo (* 1685 )
- December 20 : Giorgio Massari , Venetian architect (* 1687 )
- Franz Anton Palko , Silesian-Austrian portrait painter (* 1717 )
See also
Web links
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