1678 in art

Events

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Paintings

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Births

* Michele Angelo Monticelli - a Bolognese painter
* Alonso Miguel de Tobar - Spanish painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period (d. 1758)
* Giovanni Francesco Bagnoli - Italian painter of the Baroque period, who painted still-life paintings (d. 1713)
* Antonio Baroni - Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active in Verona (d. 1746)
* Carlo Bolognini - Italian painter of the Baroque painting quadratura (d. 1704)
* Tommaso Dossi - Italian painter from Verona of the late-Baroque period (d. 1730)
* Domenico Antonio Vaccaro - Italian painter, sculptor and architect (d. 1745)

Deaths

* September 1 - Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (b. 1601)
* October 18 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (b. 1593)
* December 9 - Jürgen Ovens, German painter (b. 1623)
* Pieter Codde - Dutch painter of genre works (b. 1599)
* Erasmus Quellinus the Elder - painter (b. 1607)
* Pieter Jansz. van Asch, Dutch painter (b. 1603)
* Karel Dujardin - Dutch animal and landscape painter (b. 1626)
* Caesar van Everdingen - Dutch portrait painter (b. 1616/1617)
* Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten Dutch painter (b. 1627)
* Otto Marseus van Schrieck - Dutch painter in the Dutch Golden Age (b. 1619)
* Antonio de Pereda - Spanish Baroque era painter (b. 1611)
* Giulio Carpioni - Italian painter and etcher of the early Baroque era (b. 1613)
* Domenico Ambrogi - Italian painter from Bologna (b. 1600)
* Domenico de Benedettis - Italian painter of the Baroque period (b. 1610)
* Marco Boschini - Italian painter of the early-Baroque period in Venice (b. 1613)
* Orsola Maddalena Caccia - Italian woman painter of the Baroque period (b. "unknown")
* Pietro della Vecchia - Italian painter of grotesque paintings and portraitures (b. 1603)
* Sebastiano Mazzoni - Italian who painted with unresolved dynamism and from awkward perspectives (b. 1611)
* Giulio Cesare Milani - Italian painter of the Baroque (b. 1621)
* Giacomo Torelli - Italian set designer and engraver (b. 1608)
* Giovanni Battista Falda - Italian engraver especially of contemporary and antique structures in Rome (b. 1640)