- 1629 in art
Events
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Pope Urban VIII asksBernini to sketch possible renovations to theTrevi Fountain Paintings
Births
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Pieter de Hooch , Dutch painter (d. 1684)
*Gabriel Metsu - Dutch painter (d. 1667)
*Giovan Battista Ruoppolo - Neapolitan painter from theBaroque era, notable for paintingstill-life s (d. 1693)
*Lorenzo Pasinelli - Italian painter in aMannerism style of genre-likeallegories (d. 1700)
*Giovanni Peruzzini - Italian painter oflunette s and religious themed works (d. 1694)
*Pierre Le Gros the Elder - French sculptor for the Versailles (d. 1714)Deaths
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August 21 -Camillo Procaccini , Italian painter, in 1571 a student in the Bolognese painters' guild (b. 1551)
*Hendrick ter Brugghen - Dutch painter, and a leading member of the Dutch followers ofCaravaggio (b. 1588)
*Otto van Veen - painter, draughtsman, and humanist (b. 1556)
*Jacob de Gheyn II - Dutch painter andengraver (b. 1565)
*Bartolomeo Cesi -Baroque era Italian painter of the Bolognese School (b. 1556)
*Aegidius Sadeler - Flemishbaroque era painter and engraver (b. 1570)
*Filippo Napoletano - Italian artist of diverse paintings of exotic soldiers, skeletons of animals, or cityscapes (b. 1587)
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