Events from the year 1756inart. Richard Trevor, Prince Bishop of Durham, acquires 13 paintings by Francisco de Zurbarán depicting the patriarch Jacob...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1756. 1756 (MDCCLVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on...
Willibald Gluck is knighted by Pope Benedict XIV Johann Christian Bach settles in Italy. Mme Papavoine – Vous fuyez sans vouloir m'entendre (Paris) Johann Friedrich...
"The Work of Artin the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1935), by Walter Benjamin, is an essay of cultural criticism which proposes and explains that...
1756. March 1 – The first issue of The Critical Review is published, with Tobias Smollett as editor. April–May – Beginning of the Seven Years' War in...
The year 1756in science and technology involved some significant events. Joseph Black describes how carbonates become more alkaline when they lose carbon...
marble top; height: 90.2 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art Madame de Pompadour; by François Boucher; 1756; oil on canvas; 2.01 x 1.57 m; Alte Pinakothek (Munich...
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...
lasted from 1756 to 1763 and confirmed Prussia's control of the region of Silesia (now in south-western Poland). The war was fought mainly in Silesia, Bohemia...
Greuze, created in1756. It is held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, which acquired it in 1920. Greuze exhibited the work in the Salon of...
John Trumbull (June 6, 1756 – November 10, 1843) was an American painter and military officer best known for his historical paintings of the American Revolutionary...
The art of Europe, also known as Western art, encompasses the history of visual artin Europe. European prehistoric art started as mobile Upper Paleolithic...
tragedy, a drama that contains poems Richard Owen Cambridge, An Elegy Written in an Empty Assembly Room, a parody of Alexander Pope's Eloisa to Abelard Thomas...
Events from the year 1747 inart. August – Jean-Bernard, abbé Le Blanc, writes an influential letter on the subject of the Paris Salon. Charles-Amédée-Philippe...
Korean art Korean arts include traditions in calligraphy, music, painting and pottery, often marked by the use of natural forms, surface decoration and...
Bach's last St Mark Passion pastiche (BC D 5) at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig. In addition to two movements by Bach, he incorporates seven arias from George...
Prisoners-of-War Work, 1756-1815. Cambridge: The Golden Head Press. ISBN 978-0-85420-107-5. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Trench art. Trench art of World War...
the literary events and publications of 1754. January 28 – Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity (from the Persian fairy...
through artin the nineteenth century, and the florescence of modern Mexican art after the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920). Mesoamerican art is that produced...
Swedish art refers to the visual arts produced in Sweden or by Swedish artists. Sweden has existed as a country for over 1,000 years, and for times before...
The year 1747 in science and technology involved some significant events. Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697–1770), with the help of the artist Jan Wandelaar...
be occasionally used by pirates until the French began to take control in1756 when a Stone of Possession was laid on Mahé by Captain Nicholas Morphey...
Chantilly in 1740, moving to larger premises at Sèvres in1756. The superior soft-paste made at Sèvres put it in the leading position in Europe in the second...
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