1636 in art

Events

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Paintings

* Nicolas Poussin painted "The Triumph of Pan" and "The Triumph of Bacchus" to decorate Cardinal Richelieu's château (1635-36).
* Rembrandt painted "Belshazzar's Feast" (1635-36).
* Rembrandt painted "The Blinding of Samson", using chiaroscuro.
* Peter Paul Rubens painted "An Autumn Landscape with a View of Het Steen in the Early Morning".

Births

* Gerrit Battem - Dutch landscape painter (d. 1684)
* Melchior d'Hondecoeter - Dutch painter of exotic birds in a park-like landscape (d. 1695)
* Adriaen van de Velde - Dutch animal and landscape painter (d. 1672)
* Antoine Masson - French line engraver (d. 1700)
* Giovanni Battista Beinaschi - Italian painter and engraver active in the late-Renaissance period (d. 1688)
* Giovanni Coli - Italian painter from Lucca (d. 1691)
* Filippo Maria Galletti - Italian painter of religious works and a Theatine priest (d. 1714)
* Agostino Lamma - Italian painter specializing in battle paintings (d. 1700)
* Tommaso Misciroli - Italian painter from Faenza (d. 1699)
* Francesco Vaccaro - Italian painter of landscapes and engraver (d. 1675)
* Giovanni Maria Viani - Italian painter and etcher (d. 1700)

Deaths

* October 10 - Pieter Brueghel the Younger, painter (born 1564)
* Giovanni da San Giovanni, Italian painter (born 1592)
* Gregorio Fernández - Spanish sculptor Castilian school of sculpture (born 1576)
* Giovanni Battista Billoni - Italian painter born in Padua (born 1576)
* Pietro Paolo Bonzi - Italian painter, best known for his landscapes and still-lifes (born 1576)
* Sebastiano Ghezzi - Italian painter and architect (d. 1645) (b. 1580)
* Dong Qichang - Chinese painter, scholar, calligrapher, and art theorist of the later period of the Ming Dynasty (b. 1555)
* Domenico Passignano - Italian painter of a late-Renaissance or Contra-Maniera style (b. 1559)
* Giovanni Giacomo Pandolfi - Italian painter who worked in his native Pesaro (b. 1567)
* Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger - Artist of the Tudor court, portraitist (b. 1561/1562)