1640 in art

	… 1630 ; 1631 ; 1632 ; 1633 ; 1634 ; 1635 ; 1636 ; ; 1637 ; 1638 ; 1639 ; 1640 ; 1641 ; 1642 ; 1643 ; ; 1644 ; 1645 ; 1646 ; 1647 ; 1648 ; 1649 ; 1650 … ;
	Art ; Archaeology ; Architecture ; Literature ; Music ; Philosophy ; Science +... ;

Last updated June 21, 2021

‹ The template Year nav topic5 is being considered for merging. ›

Events from the year 1640 in art.

Events

Nicolas Poussin completes the first series of Seven Sacraments .
Abraham van Linge begins painting the windows for the chapel of University College, Oxford.
Opening of the iconography studio at the Kremlin Armoury.

Paintings

Govert Flinck - A Young Archer (c.1639-40)
Giovanna Garzoni - Still Life with Bowl of Citrons
Jacob Jordaens (approximate dates)
- The King Drinks
- Prometheus Bound
Rembrandt
- Harmen Doomer
- Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet
- Self-portrait
Guido Reni - Saint Joseph and the Christ Child
Diego Velázquez - Mars Resting (Prado Museum)

Births

June 21 - Abraham Mignon, Dutch flower painter born at Frankfurt (died 1679)
August 2 - Gérard Audran, French engraver of the Audran family (died 1703)
September 11 (or 1641) - Gerard de Lairesse, Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist (died 1711)
September 29 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor who emigrated from Spain (died 1720)
date unknown
- Filippo Abbiati, Italian painter (died 1715)
- Jean François Baudesson, French painter of flowers and fruit (died 1713)
- Giovanni Lorenzo Bertolotti, Italian painter, active in Genoa (died 1721)
- Jacques d'Agar, French portrait painter (died 1716)
- Henry Gyles, English glass painter (died 1709)
- Buhurizade Mustafa Itri, Ottoman-Turkish musician, composer, calligrapher, singer and poet (died 1712)
- Isaac Paling, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1728)
- Jose Risueño, Spanish painter who helped decorate the cupola of the church in the Carthusian monastery (died 1721)
probable
- Giovanni Ventura Borghesi, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome (died 1708)
- Marco Liberi, Italian painter of mythologic and historic cabinet paintings (died 1687)

Deaths

January - Johann Wilhelm Baur, German engraver, etcher and miniature painter (born 1607)
January 8 - Alfonso Rivarola, Italian painter, active mainly in his native Ferrara (born 1607)
February 4 (bur.) - Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, Dutch painter (born 1566), father of Cornelis Hendriksz Vroom
May 30 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (born 1577)
June - Abraham van der Doort, Dutch-born artist and curator (born c. 1575/1580?) (suicide)
July 3 - Giuseppe Cesari, Italian painter (born 1568)
August 3 - Giovanni Antonio Lelli, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1591)
September 30 - Jacopo da Empoli, Italian late-mannerist painter (born 1551)
October 26 - Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor and follower of Giambologna (born 1557)
November 22 - Mario Minniti, Italian painter, who was also the model for Caravaggio's painting Boy with a Basket of Fruit (born 1577)
November 25 - Pellegrino Piola, Italian painter (born 1617)
December 22 - Jean de Beaugrand, French lineographer and mathematician (born 1584)
date unknown
- Vicente Guirri, Spanish painter (date of birth unknown)
- Giovanni Battista Ruggieri, Italian painter (date of birth unknown)
probable
- Antonia Bertucci-Pinelli, Italian woman painter (date of birth unknown)
- Ercole de Maria, Italian painter awarded knighthood by Urban VIII (b. unknown)

Related Research Articles

Events from the year 1520 in art.

Events from the year 1650 in art.

Events from the year 1700 in art.

Events from the year 1614 in art.

Events from the year 1674 in art.

Events from the year 1698 in art.

Events from the year 1675 in art.

Events from the year 1670 in art.

Events from the year 1649 in art.

Events from the year 1660 in art.

Events from the year 1617 in art.

Events from the year 1691 in art.

Events from the year 1684 in art.

Events from the year 1680 in art.

Events from the year 1677 in art.

Events from the year 1612 in art.

Events from the year 1661 in art.

Events from the year 1653 in art.

Events from the year 1635 in art.

Events from the year 1590 in art.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.