1668 in art

Events

• The Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford is completed, to a design by Sir Christopher Wren with ceiling paintings by Robert Streater.

Works

• Viviano Codazzi and Filippo Lauri – The Bernini Arsenal at Civitavecchia
• Jan de Bray – The artist and his wife as Ulysses and Penelope
• Jean Baptiste Dieussart – lead statues Amor Dei and Amor Patriae, Riddarhuset, Stockholm
• Gerard de Lairesse – Allegory of the Five Senses
• Charles Le Brun
• *La Colère
• *Equestrian portrait of Louis XIV
• Adriaen van de Velde – Frozen Canal with Skaters and Hockey Players
• Jan Vermeer
• *The Astronomer
• *''The Art of Painting''

Births

• date unknown
• *Giovanni Battista Cassana, Italian painter of fruit, flowers, and still-life
• *Étienne-Jehandier Desrochers, French engraver
• *Yun Tusŏ, Korean painter and scholar of the Joseon period
• *Jan Griffier II, English painter
• *Clemente Ruta, Italian painter specializing in landscapes with pen and watercolor
• *Francesco Maria Schiaffino, Italian sculptor
• *Alessandro Specchi, Italian architect and engraver
• *Carlo Antonio Tavella, Italian painter of landscapes
• *Giuseppe Tonelli, Italian painter of frescoes and quadratura
• *Theodor van Pee, Dutch painter
• *Domenico Maria Viani, Italian painter of churches, born in Bologna
• *Peter Schubart von Ehrenberg, painter and stage designer active in Vienna
• probable – Giacomo Antonio Arland, Italian painter of the Baroque period

Deaths

• February 8 – Alessandro Tiarini, Italian Baroque painter of frescoes, façade decorations, and altarpieces
• April 21 – Jan Boeckhorst, German-born Flemish Baroque painter
• May 19 – Philips Wouwerman, Dutch painter
• August 23 – Artus Quellinus the Elder, Flemish sculptor
• September – Jan Miense Molenaer, Dutch genre painter
• September 4 - Titus van Rijn, son and model of Rembrandt
• date unknown
• *Benito Manuel Agüero, Spanish painter of the Baroque period
• *Giulio Benso, Genovese painter of the early Baroque
• *Giovanni Battista Bolognini, Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque
• *Philips de Marlier, Flemish Baroque painter and copyist
• *Jan Goedart, Dutch painter famous for his illustrations of insects
• *Antonio Travi, deaf Italian landscape painter