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Events from the year 1608 in art. August - Caravaggio is arrested and imprisoned for his part in a brawl. He subsequently escapes and flees Malta. December...

1608 (MDCVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1608th year...

1612 in art 1611 in art 1610 in art – Birth of David Teniers the Younger; Death of Caravaggio 1609 in art 1608 in art 1607 in art 1606 in art – Birth...

The year 1608 in science and technology involved some significant events. October 2 – Hans Lippershey demonstrates the first known telescope to the government...

Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the fourth-largest museum in the world...

Events in the year 1608 in Scotland. Monarch – James VI May 8 – Works by Bevis Bulmer commence at a newly nationalized silver mine at Hilderston, West...

The year 1608 in music involved some significant events and new musical works. February 9 – The masque The Hue and Cry After Cupid, written by Ben Jonson...

Hungary and Croatia (as Rudolf I, 1572–1608), King of Bohemia (1575–1608/1611) and Archduke of Austria (1576–1608). He was a member of the House of Habsburg...

Caravaggio’s Sleeping Cupid of 1608, in: Art History, 40, 4, 2017, pp. 884–903. Francesco Zucconi, Displacing Caravaggio: Art, Media, and Humanitarian Visual...

This article lists notable literary events and publications in 1599. January – English poet Edmund Spenser is buried near Geoffrey Chaucer at Westminster...

Landscape with Skaters is a c.1608 oil-on-oak painting by the Dutch artist Hendrick Avercamp in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. This painting...

style in Italy in about AD 1400, in parallel with developments which occurred in philosophy, literature, music, science, and technology. Renaissance art took...

Events from the year 1599 in art. July 23 - Caravaggio receives his first public commission for paintings. Caravaggio, Basket of Fruit Caravaggio, Judith...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1608. January 10 – Ben Jonson's The Masque of Beauty is performed by Queen Anne...

Looking Glasse Robert Tofte, Ariosto's Satyres (authorship is claimed by Tofte in The Blazon of Jealousie (1615) although Gervase Markham's name is on the title...

The historical evolution of the nude in art runs parallel to the history of art in general, except for small particularities derived from the different...

View and Plan of Toledo (Spanish: Vista y plano de Toledo, ca. 1608) is a landscape painting by El Greco. The image is notable for its juxtaposition of...

Events from the year 1598 in art. Marin le Bourgeoys is appointed Valet de Chambre to King Henry IV of France. At court he produces artwork, firearms,...

works show openly Caravaggesque traits such as in the Cain slaying Abel (1608–1609) (Courtauld Institute of Art) and the Old Woman and Boy with Candles (1618–1619)...

pre-dating the foundation of the current state in 1830. Art from the areas making up modern Belgium is called in English Netherlandish up to the separation...