1677 in art
# 1677 in art

Events from the year 1677 in art.

## Events

* Mosaics are created in St Mark's Basilica, Venice, from cartoons by Giovanni Antonio Fumiani.

## Paintings

* Claude Lorrain paints The Voyage of Jacob in his late Roman period.
* Thomas Flatman paints miniature portraits.
* Pietro Giarguzzi - The Holy Trinity crowning the Blessed Virgin Mary (fresco) at San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane.
* Abraham Hondius - The Frozen Thames, a view over the Thames to the old London Bridge during the Little Ice Age.
* Pieter de Hooch - A Musical Party in a Courtyard.
* Charles Le Brun - Apotheose of Louis XIV.

## Births

* October 23 – Giuseppe Antonio Petrini, painter (died 1755/1759)
* November 29 – Guillaume Coustou the Elder, French sculptor and academician (died 1746)
* date unknown
   * Pompeo Aldrovandini, Italian painter (died 1735)
   * Lovia Casalina, Italian woman portrait-painter (died 1702)
   * Louis Du Guernier, French engraver (died 1716)
   * Abraham Rademaker, Dutch painter and printmaker (died 1735)
   * Jean Raoux, French painter (died 1734)
* probable
   * Antonio Dardani, Italian painter (died 1735)
   * Gasparo Lopez, Italian painter of flowers (died 1732)

## Deaths

* March 16 – Evaristo Baschenis, Italian Baroque painter primarily of still lifes (born 1617)
* March 25 – Wenceslaus Hollar (Václav Hollar), Bohemian-born etcher working in England (born 1607)
* April 20 – Mathieu Le Nain, French painter (born 1607)
* August 28 – Wallerant Vaillant, Flemish painter and mezzotint engraver (born 1623), painted A Young Boy Copying a Painting and engraved Woman Peeling Fruit and A Boy Drawing a Bust of the Emperor Vitellius
* November 9 – Aert van der Neer, Dutch painter (born 1603)
* November 18 - Claude Audran the Elder, French engraver (born 1597)
* date unknown
   * Giacomo Alboresi, Italian painter (born 1632)
   * Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi, Italian painter and etcher (born 1618)
   * Jan Peeters I, Flemish seascape painter (born 1624)
   * Cristoforo Savolini, Italian painter of altarpieces (born 1639)
   * Wang Jian, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty (born 1598)
