Today in Painter History
Sub-Topics: Claude Monet - Leonardo da Vinci - Michelangelo Buonarroti - Pablo Picasso - Raphael Sanzio - Rembrandt van Rijn - Salvador Dali - Vincent van Gogh
Historical Events
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1544-11-10 - Antwerps painter John Matsys banished
1594-04-15 - Fleming Pieter Stevens appointed royal painter of Rudolf II (Prague)
1597-02-24 - Flemish painter Frederick of Valckenborch becomes porter of Frankfurt-on-Main
1886-02-13 - Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversial over use of male nudes in a coed art class
1888-12-23 - Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear
1891-04-01 - Painter Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti
1891-06-09 - Painter Gauguin arrives in Papeete, Tahiti
1892-02-02 - Bottle cap with cork seal patented by William Painter (Baltimore)
1900-10-19 - Henry O Tanner, painter, wins Medal of Honor at Paris Exposition
1914-03-10 - Suffragettes in London damages painter Rokeby's Venus of Velasquez
1970-11-27 - Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest
2007-12-20 - The painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, was stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art, along with O Lavrador de Café, by the major Brazilian modernist painter Candido Portinari.
Famous Birthdays
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1036-12-19 - Su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher
1401-12-21 - Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428)
1444-05-17 - Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (Birth of Venus)
1449-01-11 - Domenico Ghirlandajo, Italy, renaissance painter
1452-04-15 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italy, painter/sculptor/scientist/visionary
1471-05-21 - Albrecht Durer, Nornberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker
1472-03-28 - Fra Bartolomeo, monk, Florentine Renaissance painter
1474-10-13 - Mariotto di Bigio di Bindo Albertinelli, Italian painter
1475-03-06 - Michelangelo, Italian painter (David) (d. 1564)
1476-08-28 - Motonoboe, Japanese painter (Kano-school)
1481-03-07 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1537)
1483-03-28 - Raphael, Urbino Italy, painter (School of Athens)
1483-04-06 - Raphael Sanzio, Italian painter/master builder (Madonna Sistina)
1486-07-14 - Andrea del Sarto, Italy, painter (Recollets)
1494-03-01 - Il Bacchiacca, [Franceso Ubertini], Italian painter
1494-05-25 - Jacopo Pontormo II, Italy, painter (Sepulture of Christ)
1495-08-01 - Jan Scorel, Dutch painter/architect
1502-08-04 - Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter/carpet designer
1503-11-17 - Il Bronzino, Florentine painter (Eleanor de Toledo & her Son)
1511-07-30 - Giorgio Vasari, Italy, painter/art historian (Vasari's Lives)
1515-10-04 - Lucas Cranach, the Younger, German painter
1518-09-29 - Tintoretto, Italian painter
1527-11-18 - Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor
1529-09-01 - Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter
1535-05-03 - Alessandro "Agnolo" Allori, Italian painter/carpet designer
1539-04-17 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter/cartoonist (Comedia)
1543-02-16 - Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (d. 1590)
1548-03-18 - Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet
1552-08-24 - Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (d. 1614)
1555-04-21 - Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1619)
1559-09-12 - Lodovico Cardi da Cigoli, Italian painter/architect
1560-11-03 - Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1609)
1564-12-24 - Abraham C Bloemaert, painter/cartoonist/engraver
1567-05-01 - Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter
1573-09-28 - Caravaggio, Italy, painter
1573-09-28 - Michelangelo Buanarroti, Caprese Italy, painter/sculpter
1574-01-23 - Lucas I Franchoys, Belgian painter
1575-11-04 - Guido Reni, Italian painter (d. 1642)
1576-05-17 - Ferdinand van Apshoven, the Older, Flemish painter, baptized
1577-06-28 - Peter Paul Rubens, Siegen, Flemish Baroque painter (Circumcision)
1577-10-17 - Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (Judith)
1578-03-17 - Francesco Albana, Ital painter (Mary's Ascension)
1578-03-18 - Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized
1578-08-17 - Francesco Albani, Italian painter (d. 1660)
1579-11-11 - Frans Snyders, Flemish animal painter
1581-05-06 - Frans Francken, the Younger, painter
1581-10-21 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (d. 1641)
1582-04-01 - Gaspar de Crayer, Flemish painter
1585-01-27 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (d. 1634)
1587-01-16 - Alexander Adriaenssen, Flemish painter
1588-01-12 - Jose Ribera [Lo Spagnoletto], Spanish painter
1590-11-04 - Gerard van Honthorst, Dutch painter
1591-01-12 - José Ribera, Spanish painter (d. 1652)
1593-03-19 - Georges de la Tour, French painter
1593-07-08 - Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (d. 1653)
1594-06-15 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter (d. 1665)
1595-02-02 - Jacob van Campen, painter/architect (New Church, Amsterdam)
1596-01-13 - Jan J Goyen, Dutch landscape painter
1596-05-09 - Abraham van Diepenbeeck, painter
1597-06-09 - Pieter J Saenredam, architecture painter
1597-07-31 - Sebastian Stosskopf, Elzassisch painter, baptized
1598-05-23 - Claude Mellan, French engraver/cartoonist/painter, baptized
1598-11-07 - Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664)
1599-01-12 - Adrian van Utrecht, Flemish painter
1599-02-22 - Anthony Van Dyck, Antwerp Belgium, painter
1599-03-22 - Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish painter (Charles I of England)
1599-06-06 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)
1601-01-31 - Pieter de Bloot, Dutch landscape painter
1601-03-19 - Alonzo Cano, Spanish painter/sculptor (Cathedral Granada)
1602-03-07 - Kano Tanju, Japanese painter (palaces, portraits)
1602-05-26 - Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (d. 1674)
1605-04-08 - Louis de Vadder, Flemish painter
1606-05-06 - Lorenzo Lippi, [Perlone Zipoli], poet/painter
1606-07-15 - Rembrandt van Rijn, Leiden Netherlands, painter (Night Watch)
1607-10-24 - John Lievensz, painter/etcher/wood carver
1607-11-19 - Erasmus Quellinus II, [Quellien], Flemish painter/etcher
1609-07-28 - Judith J Leyster, Dutch house painter, baptised
1609-08-29 - Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna)
1610-03-04 - William Dobson, English portraitist and painter (d. 1646)
1610-03-19 - Hasegawa Tohaku, Japanese painter
1610-12-15 - David Teniers II, Flemish courtpainter (Theatrum Pictorium)
1613-04-07 - Gerard Dou, Dutch painter (Night School)
1613-04-07 - Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter (d. 1675)
1614-02-23 - Jacob Colijn(s), Dutch coat of arms painter
1615-01-25 - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (Isaac blesses Jacob)
1615-06-20 - Salvatore Rosa, Italian painter/musician [or 7/21]
1615-06-27 - Johann Paul Schor, German Baroque painter
1616-11-19 - Eustache Le Sueur, French painter
1619-05-24 - Philips Wouwerman(s), Dutch painter
1619-11-03 - Willem Kalf, Rotterdam Neth, painter (still lifes)
1619-11-15 - Philips Koninck, Amsterdams painter/etcher
1620-05-23 - Pieter Neefs, the Younger, Flemish painter, baptized
1620-10-01 - Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Dutch landscape painter/etcher
1620-10-20 - Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (d. 1691)
1621-08-19 - Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (d. 1674)
1622-02-13 - Adam Pijnacker, landscape painter/etcher, baptized
1622-02-27 - Rembrandt Carel Fabritius, Dutch painter
1622-11-30 - Thomas of Apshoven, Flemish painter, baptized
1623-05-30 - Wallerand Vaillant, painter/engraver, baptized
1625-11-20 - Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (d. 1654)
Famous Deaths
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1101-07-28 - Su Tung-p'o, Chinese poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher, dies at 64
1336-01-08 - Giotto di Bondone, Italian Renaissance painter, dies at about 71
1426-09-18 - Hubert [Huybrecht] van Eyck, painter, dies
1441-07-09 - Jan/Johannes van Eyck, Flemish painter (Lamb Gods), dies
1444-04-26 - Robert Campin, South Neth painter/porter of Doornik, dies at about 65
1455-02-18 - Fra Angelico, Italian monk/painter, dies
1460-05-09 - Jean Lavite, Atrechts painter, dies
1464-06-18 - Rogier van der Weyden, Flemish painter, dies at 65
1475-05-06 - Dieric Bouts, Dutch painter, dies at about 64
1488-10-07 - Andrea del Verrochio, sculptor/painter/goldsmith, dies at about 52
1491-02-02 - Martin Schongauer, German painter, dies at 40
1492-10-12 - Piero della Francesca, Italian painter
1494-08-11 - Hans Memling, [John Memlinc], Flemish painter (Passietaferelen), dies
1494-11-08 - Melozzo da Forli, Italian painter, dies at about 56
1496-07-08 - Benedetto Bonfiglio, Italian painter, dies
1497-07-22 - Francesco Botticini, Italian painter, dies at about 52
1504-04-18 - Filippino Lippi, painter, dies at about 52
1506-08-08 - Sesshu Toyo, Zen monk/painter, dies in Yamaguchi Japan at 86
1506-09-13 - Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter
1510-05-17 - Alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65
1510-05-17 - Sandro Botticelli, [Alessandro di Mariano del Filpepi], painter, dies
1510-10-25 - Il Giorgione, [Giorgio del Castelfranco], Italian painter, dies at 32
1515-11-05 - Mariotto di Bigio di Bindo Albertinelli, Italian painter, dies at 41
1516-08-09 - Jeroen Bosch, painter (Garden of the Lusten), dies at 66
1519-11-30 - Michael Wolgemut, German painter (Weltchronik), dies at about 85
1523-08-13 - Gerard David, Flemish painter
1524-10-15 - Joachim Patinir, Flemish landscape painter, dies at about 45
1528-04-06 - Albrecht Durer, German painter/graphic artist, dies in Germany at 56
1528-07-30 - Jacopo d'antonio Negreti Palma, Italian painter, dies at about 48
1530-09-29 - Andrea del Sato, [d'Agnolo di Franceszo], Italian painter, dies at 44
1531-01-22 - Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter, dies at 44
1534-03-05 - Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (b. 1489)
1536-01-06 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect/painter, dies
1537-01-12 - Lorenzo di Credi, Italian painter, dies
1538-02-12 - Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, dies at about 57
1540-08-24 - Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (b. 1503)
1541-01-06 - Bernard van Orley, Flemish royal painter of Hungary, dies at about 52
1546-11-01 - Giulio Romano, Italian painter/architect (Ondergang der Titanen), dies
1547-06-21 - Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)
1547-10-19 - Pierino del Vaga, Italian painter, dies at about 46
1550-12-06 - Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter, dies at 48
1551-05-18 - Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter (d. 1486)
1553-10-16 - Lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81
1553-10-19 - Bonifazio Veronese/Veneziano, [de' Pitati], Italian painter, dies
1557-01-02 - Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)
1557-10-05 - Il Bacchiacca, [Franceso Ubertini], Italian painter, dies at 63
1562-12-06 - Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter/architect, dies
1564-02-18 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian sculptor/painter (David), dies at 88
1566-09-02 - Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter, dies at 37
1568-06-05 - Willem Key, painter, dies at about 47
1569-09-05 - Pieter Bruegel, South Netherlands painter, dies at about 44
1570-10-01 - Frans Floris, Flemish painter (b. 1520)
1574-06-27 - Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (b. 1511)
1574-10-01 - Maarten van Heemskerck, painter (Christ), dies
1574-10-01 - Marten Jacobszoon Heemskerk van Veen, Dutch painter (b. 1498)
1575-06-02 - Pieter Aertsen, [Long Worm], painter, dies at about 65
1576-08-27 - Titian, [Tiziano Vecelli], Italian painter, dies of plague
1578-02-05 - Giovanni B Moroni, Italian portrait painter, dies
1579-12-21 - Vicente Masip, Spanish painter
1583-10-30 - Pirro Ligorio, Italian architect/painter/archaeologist, dies at 83
1584-01-04 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter/cartoonist/playwright, dies at 44
1584-01-30 - Pieter Jansz Pourbus, Flemish painter, dies
1585-10-06 - Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor, dies
1586-01-25 - Lucas Cranach "the Young", German painter, dies at 70
1588-04-19 - Paolo Veronese (Cagliari), painter, dies
1588-08-08 - Alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter
1590-10-12 - Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (b. 1543)
1592-02-13 - Jacopo Bassano, Italian painter
1592-03-10 - Michiel Coxcie, Flemish (court)painter/carpet designer, dies
1593-07-11 - Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1st surrealist painter, dies (birth date unkn)
1594-05-31 - Tintoretto, Italian Mannerist painter, dies at 75
1595-01-05 - Ercole Procaccini, Italian painter, dies
1596-05-27 - Tibaldi II, Italian painter/sculptor/architect, dies
1597-02-02 - Lucas van Valckenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 61
1600-02-13 - Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (b. 1538)
1603-12-04 - Maarten de Vos, Flemish painter, dies at about 71
1606-09-02 - Carel van Mander, Flemish painter/art historian, dies at 58
1607-09-22 - Alessandro Agnolo Allori, Italian painter/carpet designer, dies at 72
1608-10-26 - Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Spanish royal painter, dies
1609-07-15 - Annibale Carracci, painter, dies
1609-07-20 - Federico Zuccari, Italian Mannerist painter, dies at about 69
1610-12-11 - Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, buried at 32
1611-04-01 - Gillis van Valkenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 72
1612-01-27 - Maarten van Valckenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 77
1614-04-07 - El Greco, Spanish painter (View of Toledo), dies (birth date unknown)
1614-08-11 - Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552)
1615-03-04 - Hans von Aachen, German painter, dies
1616-08-08 - Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet, buried at 68
1617-01-01 - Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies
1617-10-02 - Isaac Oliver, miniature painter, dies
1619-01-07 - Nicholas Hilliard, English painter (bc. 1547)
1619-04-16 - Denijs Calvaert/Caluwaert, [Dionisio Fiamingo], Flemish painter, dies
1619-11-13 - Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1555)
1620-06-16 - Carlo Saraceni, [Carlo Veniziano], Italian painter (Judith), dies
1621-04-01 - Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (b. 1577)
1624-02-21 - Dirck van Baburen, Dutch painter (Sepulture), dies at about 28
1624-09-23 - Willem Pietersz Buytewech, painter/etcher, dies at about 32
1625-01-13 - Pieter Bruegel "the Older", (Bloemenbruegel), Flemish painter, dies
1625-11-14 - Giulio C Procaccini, Italian sculptor/painter, dies
1626-12-15 - Adriaen de Vries, Dutch sculptor/painter, dies at about 70
