Events from the year 1669 in art .
Following the fall of Crete to the Ottomans, the Heptanese School , also known as the Ionian Islands' School, succeeds the Cretan school as the leading school of Greek post-Byzantine painting. Paintings
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September 21 - Pietro Ercole Fava , Italian nobleman and art patron (died 1744 )December 16 - Arnold Boonen , Dutch portrait painter (died 1729 )date unknown
Jiang Tingxi , Chinese painter (died 1732 )Giovanni Antonio Capello , Italian painter, active in Brescia (died 1741 )Alessio Erardi , Maltese painter (died 1727 )[1] Antonio Filocamo , Italian painter at various churches and oratories in Messina (died 1743 )Bartolomeo Letterini , Venetian painter (died 1731 )Angelo Trevisani , Italian painter active mainly in Venice (died 1753 )Pierre Le Ber , painter from Montreal , especially of portraits (died 1707 )Ma Yuanyu , Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty (died 1722 )
Jan de Bray (left) and his family pose as The Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra . By the date of this second version of 1669, most of the models had died of the plague some years before.January 27 – Caspar de Crayer , Flemish painter (born 1582 )May
May 16 – Pietro da Cortona , byname of Pietro Berettini, prolific artist and architect of High Baroque (born 1596 )July 12 – Theodoor van Thulden , Dutch artist from 's-Hertogenbosch in North Brabant (born 1606 )July 17 - Herman van Aldewereld , Dutch portrait painter (born 1628 )August 10 – Paulus Bor , Dutch painter (born 1601 )October 4 – Rembrandt , Dutch painter and etcher (born 1606 )October 18 – Abraham Willaerts , Dutch Baroque painter (born 1603 )October 19 – Domenico Fiasella , Italian painter of primarily frescoes (born 1589 )December 24 - Antonio Giorgetti , Italian sculptor (born 1635 )date unknown
References
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^ Schiavone, Michael J. (2009). Dictionary of Maltese Biographies Vol. 1 A–F . Pietà : Pubblikazzjonijiet Indipendenza. p. 755. ISBN 9789993291329
