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Tiepolo, Giambattista
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...predominantly secular, but from the late 1730s to the late 1740s he also produced a series of major religious paintings for Venetian...Ashmolean Mus., Oxford). His most important secular work of the 1740s and perhaps the greatest of all his works in Venice was the...
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stair
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...Escorial, near Madrid (1563–84), and spectacular later examples include the staircases at Schloss Brühl (1740s) and the Residenz , Würzburg (1734) ( g );newel: circular stair winding around a solid central pier or newel...
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Guarini, Guarino
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...remarkably similar to that of Neumann's Pilgrimage Church of Vierzehnheiligen (Fourteen Saints), Franconia, Germany (1740s). Bibliography Brinckmann (1931, 1932); Guarini (1660, 1665, 1671, 1674, 1675, 1676, 1678, 1683, 1966, 1968...
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Hårleman, Carl
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...Drottningholm. He designed various country-houses based on Blondel 's ideas that were influences on Adelcrantz and others. In the 1740s he carried out sensitive works at the Carolinian Mortuary Chapel ( Karolinska Grafkoret ), Riddarholms Church, Stockholm...
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Bellotto, Bernardo
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...nephew, pupil, and assistant of Canaletto in Venice. He became a member of the Venetian painters' guild in 1738 and in the 1740s he travelled widely in Italy, painting views of Florence, Rome, and other cities. In 1747 he left Italy for good, spending...
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Scott, Samuel
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...English marine and topographical painter. He began as a marine painter in the tradition of the van de Veldes , but in the 1740s he turned to topographical views (usually of the London riverside) in the manner of Canaletto , who was then enjoying great...
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Bow Street Runners
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...force, based at Bow Street Magistrates' Court in London, recruited by the magistrate (and novelist) Henry Fielding from the 1740s to augment the forces at his disposal. Their functions included serving writs and acting as detectives. They gained a reputation...
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Boydell, John
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...Shropshire, 19 Jan. 1719; d London, 12 Dec. 1804). English engraver and print publisher. He made a fortune in the 1740s by publishing views of England and Wales, which he engraved from his own drawings. Later he published the work of other engravers...
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catholicism
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
...removed the political animus against catholicism, though not until 1829 was the prohibition on catholic MPs lifted. In the 1740s catholics were a negligible fraction of the population of England and Wales, but from that time they entered a new phase of...
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French East India Company
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...India Company A commercial organization, founded in 1664 to complete with DUTCH and English EAST INDIA COMPANIES . Until the 1740s it was less successful than its rivals, but led by an ambitious governor, Dupleix, the Company then made a bid to challenge...
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